Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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“A horrid-looking wretch he is, sooty and scoundrelly in aspect, a cross between the nutmeg dealer, the horse swapper, and the night man,” declared a Stephen Douglas–leaning newspaper of Abraham Lincoln during the presidential race of 1860.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865