it's important, because menard comes into connection with the lincoln administration later. but this particular speech that he gives establishes him as a rising star in the abolitionist movement of the united states. he is invited to take a role as an assistant editor for an abolitionist newspaper out of boston, james redpath. it was called "the pine and palm" when it was published around 1860 to '61. he appears writing several articles. normally opinion pieces on slavery. he publishes one in 1860 that's an address to the free people of illinois. and it's an attack on the fugitive slave law. he's a very gifted writer in terms of his illusion, and he does not compromise in his stances. menard says in this article that the fugitive slave law has turned the whole north into one vast hunting ground for men, and chased us to the shores of canada, if we seek to attain freedom. he goes after the constitution's three-fifths clause which he calls a tyrant call stipulation, designed to impede citizenship and voting rights and ever attaining equality for african-americans in the united

there are many places to stop here that i don't have time for, he was a bitter critic of the lincoln administration as many of you know. he was a bitter critic of lincoln's policy of returning fugitive slaves at one point he called abraham lincoln the most powerful slave catcher in the land. he hated lincoln's policy as long as it lasted of the possible colonization of blacks out of the country especially when they tried to enlist him to be the black czar of black colonization of blacks leaving the country. at one point he called lincoln an itinerant colonization preacher. he hated that meeting at the white house with five hand picked ministers from the washington, d.c. area where lincoln told those black representatives we wouldn't be having this war but for your people and then tried to recruit them to lead an effort to get all blacks to emigrate from the country. douglass was deeply disappointed by that but he changed his tune after september 22nd, changed his tune after antietam. he wrote this editorial that was published in october. he wrote is right after antietam or right after the prelimina

. >> at the end of the overland scam pain is the lincoln administration, political situation in great shape? no. people are terribly disappointed at the end of the summer of 1864. and do you remember what battle changes it? of course, the argument is grant deserves some credit for that. grant is the one that puts the motion in the strategy that involves moving in different avenues of advance. and one of those is sherman. and grant has lip tagsmitations. some are fail because of a -- because inept field commander. you know, the bench of effective field commander

. >> at the end of the overland scam pain is the lincoln administration, political situation in great shape? no. people are terribly disappointed at the end of the summer of 1864. and do you remember what battle changes it? of course, the argument is grant deserves some credit for that. grant is the one that puts the motion in the strategy that involves moving in different avenues of advance. and one of those is sherman. and grant has lip tagsmitations. some are fail because of a -- because inept field commander. you know, the bench of effective field commander is low. grant has political imperatives he has to respect. but that is a good subtle argument of too much credit. >> another reason that he quits his job, you mention lincoln. lincoln was -- just so thrilled to have a general that was at least aggressive. and, lincoln also -- was -- had more of the annihilation to be look you want to -- his generals to attack lee's army. not necessarily take richmond. which i know mcclellan was more about taking richmond. and lincoln needed somebody who would do something, whether he won or not

he had been very open in public in criticizing lincoln and the administration for this. they had an extraordinary meeting. douglas came away awed is the only word you can use by lincoln. by how lincoln treated him so much like an equal. in fact, there's a speech douglass gives after this several times. there's this homely way he put it. he said, he made me feel big there. like a teenager, meeting a great man or something. it was actually two great men meeting one another. lincoln, according to douglass said yeah, i know about you. i've heard and read a lot about you. but lincoln also defended himself. it's interesting, lincoln defended how difficult these decisions and choices had been. they met in the second time in august of 1864. '64 during the overland campaign the incredible stalemate in virginia, et cetera, et cetera it, lincoln fears he's not going to be re-elected. that's a very real fear in mid and late summer. he's facing mcclellan, of course, in the fall election. he invites frederick douglass representative of black america to come to the white house and among

when willie lincoln had become ill, early in the administration, james was called in to help him recuperate by applying the nursing skills for which he had become famous.

when willie lincoln had become ill, early in the administration, james was called in to help him recuperate by applying the nursing skills for which he had become famous. the steward of white house well knew the family. two of his daughters married two of james' sons during the war. unfortunately both women passed before the end of the decade. 6 further the family, and the confida confidant, knew the wormleys because they attended the same church which you heard about this morning. another little known fact is that james wormley was called upon to attend to president in peterson house. this story is not well known, but it's documented in news paper accounts. general mcclellan during the war years lived on and around la fayette square including madison house and was noted as dining frequently at wormleys giving elaborate meals for 20. by now the reputation of wormleys was international in scope. it was widely known as the residence of choice for many european and south american delegates and financiers and was described by the famous european author in his multivolume treatment of his travel

administrations. and lastly, the fireplace in front of which lincoln sat is now here in gettysburg at eisenhower farm tossed out during the grant administration and given to the eisenhowers by the white house staff. thank you. >> thank you. public property given to the -- well, eisenhowers were interested in the history of the white house. in that xzibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of the white house historical association founded during the kennedy administration. mrs. rendy began herrenvation to try to make the house look like something, look historical and founded a historical society that he has gone on and has a tremendous educational program and i might say a journal willy edit which you can sign up for anytime you want to. it's the only subscription the association has. thank you for bringing that up. that's a very important very select exhibit there at the ren wick. >> thank you for your presentation. my question is, since the white house is made out of a sandstone porous and permal sandstone, i don't understand how that you could burn. well, very good question because i can tell you. what

well, that sounds like a direct slap by the obama administration by abraham lincoln, does it not?e is the problem. lincoln never said any such thing. the quote is from a guy named william betterkerr a presbyterian minister. that quote is all over the net attributed to president lincoln. joining us from washington matthew, the editor and chief of free beacon.com, a conservative web site. all right, now, i think the nit is a -- net is a growing problem in the sense that it is an easy vehicle to put out false information and a lot of this is personal. because i'm attacked every day by left wing web sites, every day. and 95% of it is false. if i make a joke, it's reported seriously. if i have a sentence, it's -- the sentence is twisted around. and a lot of people believe this stuff and it's led to death threats against me. it's led to all kinds of defamation in books and other ancillary things. i'm saying to myself, you know what? there is just no control over the net at all. and now we're going to get into a presidential election and it's going to have a big influence. and you say? >

you mentioned in particular that grant and roosevelt administrations and lastly, the fireplace in front of which lincolnis now here in gettysburg at the iza oois a. >> thank you. thank you. public property given to the white house. ing with, the eythat celebrated the 50th anniversary and mrs. kennedy began the renovation to make the house look like something, look historicalal and in so doing found an historical society that has gron on and has a tremendous educational program and a journal that you can sign up for any time you want to, the only subscription the association has. thank you for bringing that up. that's a very important, very select exhibit there. >> my question, since the white house is made out of sandstone, i don't understand how that could burn. >> well, very good question. i can tell you. what burned was the very thing that president the corps of engineers warned president truman of. the wooden atlant lath. there is acres of wooden lath and it is a tinderbox and that's what burned. the white house stone is only that thick, like a very near, like cathedrals and everything and country h

lincoln memorial in arlington cemetery. >> if israel bonds aroun -- bombs iran -- this is the real fear of the administration, that it war in the middle east will drive prices up. >> look at how the press is dealing with this. romney using loopholes for non- disclosure is an issue, and the fact that we will have a coal industry is not an issue. i have not seen any coverage of that. >> the president is in full campaign mode with an attack on the ryan budget. >> it is the trojan horse. disguised as a deficit reduction plans the, it is an attempt to impose a radical vision of our country of a thinly veiled social darwinism. >> we have a president who's good at giving big speeches. the problem with our president is he is not good at leadership. >> that is congressman paul ryan, chair of the house budget committee. "the wall street journal" said this week "if there is a laffer curve for political invective, at the white house must think ."e president has hit eighit social darwinism, charles? >> the president accused ryan of the trickle-down, trojan horse social darwinism. who writes this rubbish? he and the democrats have not

lincoln bedroom. that infamous time during the clinton administration, during their reelection cycle, this is not so transparent a lot of digging to find out how it works. the cutout groups will lobbyists can get face time access with administration officials. they give money to these cutout groups. the groups get the administration officials in the room with these folks. it looks murky and it's not transparent. megyn: even the "times" is taking issue with the fact that it appears to be a violated promise and it's being done in a way that it looks like they are pulling a fast run on the american people. the white house invites, let's say i'm a rememberyist and i want access to president obama, you are not. you are the one on the white house visitor log, you are the one with the appointment. but here is my good friend megyn kelly, listen while she tells you about the rights being trampled on for broadcast journalists. >> or lobbyists give money to the organizations or the white house stops by and sees the folks there so they are meeting at a neutral site. this is not unusual for the obama administration. we have

welcomed by the eisenhower administration that was in 1954 and here you see video of what it looked like today. >>> now next monday marks 150 years since president abraham lincoln freed the slaves in washington, d.c. 8 1/2 months later, he followed up with the emancipation proclamation for the entire country. >>> 100 years after that, the martin luther king, jr., led the march on washington, calling for equality for all americans. today, how far we have come when it comes to race relations. >> it's a question we are asking on a night when two men sit behind bars accused of a shooting rampage. 32-year-old alvin and 19-year- old jake are both being held on nearly $10 million bond each. police say both men are white and their victims are black, but not yet confirming those shootings were race related. a post england put on facebook that used a racial slur to describe the person who shot and killed his person two years earlier. >>> then in florida, a development in the case that captivated the nation. the special prosecutor looking into the shooting of trayvon martin says she will not bring the case it a grand jury. however, angela is still investigating and that d

washington was a very hostile to lincoln at the beginning of his administration.ile a loyalty oath. within 90 days as the bill promised, then some slaves came in under a supplemental piece of the legislation to claim their own freedom. and about 85% of the final slaves, the last slaves who were impacted were in fact liberated. this has been nicely handled by a colleague of mine named kenneth winkle on a civil war washington blog called civilwardc.org. very good blog entry on the statistics and as he points out, these are only 1/10th of 1% of the slaves in this country. yet, if you read the press response, it's -- it's as big as the emancipation press response because this is the first time that the congress and the president of the united states have acted to emancipate slaves after hundreds of years. in deference or resistance or worse, on the issue of slavery. it was immediately seen as the tip of the enormous iceberg. fateful metaphor today. host: a lot of iceberg metaphors. from the book, the words of harold holzer. he writes it was meant to stir public sentim

there is no question that his administration has embraced the entitlement culture spending trillions of taxpayer dollars on it now, what mr. obama said about abraham lincolnso very interesting. we should do together what we cannot do as well on our own. okay. what did mr. lincoln actually mean by that? let's take slavery, for example. no american could defeat that on his or her own. we had to fight a war for emancipation. americans in the north had to band together to defeat pro-slavery forces. that's a legitimate function of the federal government. is it not? of course it is. now, i believe president obama would say that a just society is what abraham lincoln stood for. and that's true. but collective justice is far different than individual justice. all of us get life. nobody escapes unharmed. the federal government can't alter that reality. we will pay for our mistakes and for the bad things people do to us. what president obama does not seem to understand but abraham lincoln did is the limitations of the bureaucracy. if the president continues spending the way he has in the past, he will bankrupt the country. is that justice for all? economic chaos is

there is no question that his administration has embraced the entitlement culture spending trillions of taxpayer dollars on it now, what mr. obama said about abraham lincolnso very interesting. we should do together what we cannot do as well on our own. okay. what did mr. lincoln actually mean by that? let's take slavery, for example. no american could defeat that on his or her own. we had to fight a war for emancipation. americans in the north had to band together to defeat pro-slavery forces. that's a legitimate function of the federal government. is it not? of course it is. now, i believe president obama would say that a just society is what abraham lincoln stood for. and that's true. but collective justice is far different than individual justice. all of us get life. nobody escapes unharmed. the federal government can't alter that reality. we will pay for our mistakes and for the bad things people do to us. what president obama does not seem to understand but abraham lincoln did is the limitations of the bureaucracy. if the president continues spending the way he has in the past, he will bankrupt the country. is that justice for all? economic chaos is

lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy. there was a conspiracy to decapitate the entire link in cabinet. watergate was a conspiracy. here's a clue, the most powerful administration on the planet could not even break into a hotel room. the idea that they can run a world economy like the alumni the, 12 guys in london running the economy and doing a crappy job of it. i sort of go through a bologna detection kit of conspiracy detection. the more people that are involved the less likely the theory is to be true. two reasons. most people aren't confident and most people can't keep their mouths shut. the most it -- more people you have involved the more leakage and bumbling and fumbling your way through. the more elements that have to be involved, the have to come together it's just the right time it's just the right place perfectly, the less likely anyone will be able to do that. the bigger in grander the conspiracy is the less likely it is to be true. most involve very specific, target things. conspire to collude about the price of a product or control some little market or spy on some particular government agency that we are not sure -- those are more likely to be t

administration his tory an for district of columbia, good morning >> good morning how are you. >> a lot going on this morning. >> beek fast, celebrate -- breakfast, celebrating dc emancipation the day president lincoln signed the dc emancipation, 3,100 persons were freed in district of colombia we have the parade, entertainment, fireworks later on this evening also we have a lecture series, at the universities, as well as lecture at the national archive on this wednesday. and next week, tuesday of next week t 22nd we have lecture series and conservation with our congressman, to be a promising event we invite the public, to attend he will talk about civil rights from civil war to civil rights. >> there is lots of different ways for people to learn about and celebrate about but better help put the day in perspective more is cr gibbs an historian as well, joining me on the plaza good morning. >> good morning >> what do you hope everyone taking part in the celebration is thinking about today >> i keep thinking about a newspaper article from 1883, which the writer said emancipation day was worth more to them than half a dozen 4th of julys put together it symbolized not only free tom achieved but freedom