This dust was once the man, gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand, against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, was saved the union of these states -walt whitman who is "the man" the dust now represents? the narrator a criminal whitman lincoln

What passage? when you ask a question like this without stating what passage you are talking about, it gets real confusing. i'll give it a crack thoughwhen writing passages with logical fallacies, you need to avoid bad logic, such as "all scientists where jackets. anita has a jacket. therefore, anita is a scientists." just because all scientists have jackets doesn't mean that only scientists where jackets. it's kinda like how all pronouns are nouns but not all nouns are pronouns.