SAT阅读题目练习_林肯废奴观点评论

三立教育www.sljy.com SAT阅读题目练习:林肯废奴观点评论 SAT阅读题目练习: Passage 1 Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln By Fre

三立教育www.sljy.com SAT阅读题目练习:林肯废奴观点评论 SAT阅读题目练习: Passage 1 Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln By Frederick Douglass Truthis proper and beautiful at all times and in all places, and it is never moreproper and beautiful in any case than when speaking of a great public man whoseexample is likely to be commended for honor and imitation long after hisdeparture to the solemn shades, the silent continents of eternity. It must beadmitted, truth compels me to admit, even here in the presence of the monumentwe have erected to his memory, Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense ofthe word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations,in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was awhite man.(Frederick Douglass 认为林肯的立场与黑人的立场不同) He was preeminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare ofwhite men. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of hisadministration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people of this country. In all his education and feeling he was an American of the Americans. He came into the Presidential chair upon one principle alone, namely, opposition to the extension of slavery. (林肯开