"Now he belongs to the ages/angels" (Stanton on Lincoln, in The New Yorker)

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Did anyone see this? What do our quotations masters say? Why weren't they interviewed for this New Yorker story?
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http://powerlineblog.com/archives/017748.php

May 25, 2007

Ages Or Angels?



I've been working too hard to post as much as usual lately, but one of my favorite bloggers did a post on Abraham Lincoln earlier today that I thought was worth passing on. Here it is:

Adam Gopnik has a really interesting essay in this week's New Yorker on Abraham Lincoln (which is, shockingly, available on-line). He begins with the question of whether Edwin Stanton said, at Lincoln's deathbed, "Now he belongs to the ages"--the version Gopnik remembered--or "Now he belongs to the angels"--the version he came across in James Swanson's recent book about the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth. He went on to read a bunch of other stuff on Lincoln and reports on what he finds. 
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Washington Post, The  
Now he belongs to the said Secretary Stanton, as Lincoln breathed his last How hig
Monday, February 08, 1909 Washington, District Of Columbia 

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