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In the Footsteps of Lincoln: The Illinois Years |
| Section: LIFE / PROFILE |
| Author: Eric P. Olsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 3,561 Words, 21,418 Characters |
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Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.
-Abraham Lincoln
Lines were light and security tight as I checked in at the United Airlines ticket counter at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. I was flying to Springfield, Illinois, with a connection through Chicago. But the ticket agent, instead of heaving my bag onto the conveyor, signaled an official who began an inspection of this most ordinary-looking piece of luggage.
Probing into little zippered crevasses that had never seen the light of day, the agent unpacked my personal belongings for the world to inspect and wouldn't relent until he had unscrewed my toothpaste and verified that the ...
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... not only emancipation to an oppressed race but "a new birth of freedom" to a republic reaching to the Pacific. Cleansed of slavery, Americans could advance notions of civil rights and liberties in decades to come that were inferential at America's founding but made concrete by a great civil war--and by a visionary president seeking to bend our future to the soaring ideals of the Declaration.
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