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This reasoning was based upon the doctrine of states' rights, which placed ultimate sovereignty with the states.

Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union even if it meant war. He was the first Republican President, and Union victory ended forever the claim that state sovereignty superseded federal authority. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.

( A Bank Street College of Education Best, and Grateful American Book Prize Honorable Mention. Lincoln became respected on the legal circuit and he gained the nickname ‘Honest Abe.’ He often encouraged neighbours to mediate their own conflicts rather than pursue full legal litigation. Lincoln also had a good sense of humour and was deprecating about his looks.

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

Work colleagues and friends noted that Lincoln had a capacity to defuse tense and argumentative situations, though the use of humour and his capacity to take an optimistic view of human nature.

Ordinary people who live through those wars, push society to change, or stand up for what is morally right and humane— people who dig down deep into their souls to find courage and commitment or just plain stubborn defiance they need to survive a crisis and protect those they love. 

That’s both the glory and the challenge of being human.

By the end of the war, nearly two hundred thousand African Americans had fought for the Union cause, and Lincoln referred to them as indispensable in ensuring Union victory.

Personal Tragedies and Triumphs

While the war raged, Lincoln also suffered great personal anguish over the death of his beloved son and the depressed mental condition of his wife, Mary.

It demonstrated Lincoln’s willingness and ability to work with people of different political and personal approaches. He undertook a series of high-profile debates with the Democratic incumbent Stephen Douglass. Killed by an assassin's bullet less than a week after the surrender of Confederate forces, Lincoln left the nation a more perfect Union and thereby earned the admiration of most Americans as the country's greatest President.

Born dirt-poor in a log cabin in Kentucky in 1809, Lincoln grew up in frontier Kentucky and Indiana, where he was largely self-educated, with a taste for jokes, hard work, and books.

No President in history had ever exerted so much executive authority, but he did so not for personal power but in order to preserve the Union. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”

Lincoln’s speeches were notable because they drew on both legal precedents but also easy to understand parables, which struck a chord with the public.

In 1858, Lincoln was nominated as Republican candidate for the Senate.

Three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and winner of multiple Dateline Awards, Elliott wrote long "new journalism" features, focused primarily on health, the arts, and women's issues.  Her extensive reporting experiences inform and enrich her novels' plots, themes, and characters.

Her 14 novels cover a variety of era--–the Cold War, WWII, the Great Depression, American Revolution, and the Italian Renaissance–--and are for a variety of readerships, ages middle grade to adult.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was officially signed into law on December 6, 1865.

Some northern abolitionists and Republicans wanted Lincoln to go further and implement full racial equality on issues of education and voting rights. )

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Adults, there’s plenty for you, too. Rather than face a future in which black people might become free citizens, much of the white South supported secession. The south strongly disagreed with Lincoln’s position on slavery

The election of Lincoln as President in 1861, sparked the South to secede from the North. Updated 21st February 2018.

Lincoln – by David Herbert Donald

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Douglass was in favour of allowing the extension of slavery – if citizens voted for it.