Or how Abraham Lincoln, acting in 1862, set a good example for all of us to follow forever more.

This is something I learned about Abraham Lincoln by reading American Gospel (authored by Jon Meacham). I quote from the book:

In December 1862, “General U.S. Grant, then headquartered in Mississippi, issued General Order 11, which expelled Jews from the states under his control. It had been decided that ‘Jews, as a class’ were responsible for smuggling. Lincoln had that order revoked, later telling Jewish leaders that ‘to condemn a class is, to say the least, to wrong the good with the bad. I do not like to hear a class or nationality condemned on account of a few sinners.'”