Russian Monarchy Quotes
The Czar of Russia was often referred to as “The Autocrat of all the Russians” He was the most entrenched and powerful monarch in the world with absolutely no possibility of his giving up his crown and power. That was the analogy that Lincoln used here to express his pessimistic view that the Southern slave owners would never voluntarily give up their slaves. He was right of course in both cases. Force during and after the Civil War freed the slaves, and the 1917 Russian Revolution ended the Czar’s reign.
