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Opening Volume I of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years to page 553, he read the assembled newspapermen what the Emancipator said to Mary Livermore, the Civil War reformer and social worker who visited him for a word of cheer and comfort after one of the war's bloodiest battles, Antietam...
...Logic. If these reasonable words did not bring soldiers to toss their hats in air and give a rousing cheer, no one had cause to be surprised. For the quality of Henry Stimson is to persuade rather than to rouse. His lack of success at rabble-rousing was demonstrated 31 years ago, in 1910, when Theodore Roosevelt, just returned from Africa, picked Henry Stimson, the crack U.S. Attorney in New York City, to run for Governor of New York. Banking heavily on Henry Stimson's record as buster of the sugar trust, successful prosecutor of the famed market manipulator...
...Sample cheer...
Sirs: I liked your treatment of the infamous "Yoo-Hoo" affair (TIME, July 21). But let's let the following bit of advice be the final word on the subject: Oh, give a cheer for General Lear, Defender of womankind...
...When the Germans ordered him to have his own posters of cheer and encouragement to his people covered over, he covered them with transparent oiled paper...