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Ode to Lincoln
The magazine’s first editor gives poetic voice to the nation’s grief.
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The Election in November
In 1860, The Atlantic endorsed Abraham Lincoln for president.
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Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
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AP The Pickens-and-Stealin's Rebellion
“We must convince men that treason against the ballot-box is as dangerous as treason against a throne.”
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AP The Election in November
Shortly before the 1860 presidential election The Atlantic’s editor, James Russell Lowell, came out in support of Abraham Lincoln, whom he commended as a “statesman” and a powerful voice against the spread of slavery. He predicted, accurately, that the election would prove to be “a turning-point in our history.”
