Great quote:
“No living man was ever charged with political crimes of such multiplicity and such enormity . . . . He has been denounced without end as a perjurer, a usurper, a tyrant, a subverter of the Constitution, a destroyer of the liberties of the country, a reckless desperado, a heartless trifler over the last agonies of an expiring nation. Had that which has been said of him been true there is no circle in Dante’s Inferno full enough of torment to expiate his iniquities.”
—New York Times, May 1864, describing Northern media descriptions of Abraham Lincoln, cited in Larry Tagg, The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America’s Most Reviled President.
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