![]() Eventually, we all deal with aging: graying hair, stiffening bones, cells gone awry, memories that fade, loved ones who leave us too soon. In our personal lives, loss is constant, too. News coverage was starkly partisan and public trust ripped to shreds. The hoax almost derailed Lincoln’s reelection. The story went viral, in today’s nomenclature, with telegraphs spreading news quickly. During his reelection campaign in 1864, President Lincoln had to battle a claim that he was a “mixed-race eugenicist” who believed that intermarriage between whites and blacks would yield a “super race.” Pro-slavery Democrats created an anonymous 72-page pamphlet to ignite the controversy Ohio congressman Samuel Cox fanned the flames in a speech that was picked up by Democratic newspapers around the country. ![]()
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