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Lincoln went ashore at Rockett's Landing accompanied only by his young son Tad, and was instantly recognized, and word spread of his arrival almost instantaneously. Lincoln wanted directions to Jefferson Davis's house, the Confederate White House. Some of the black people began to kneel before him, as though worshiping. Lincoln was a modest man, and this probably touched a nerve as it could be seen as validating what critics had claimed of Lincoln during the war, that he craved such adulation and thought himself a demigod, and so on. So according to some he spoke with some sharpness when he is said to have told the black people kneeling before him to "kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy."

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