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Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... This he stated most movingly in dedicating the military cemetery at Gettysburg: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war.

He also voted to censure President James K. Polk for usurpation of powers regarding the Mexican-American War in 1848—a vote that later seemed inconsistent with some of Lincoln’s own actions during the American Civil War.

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

After completing his term in Congress, Lincoln returned to Springfield to practice law in 1849. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Lincoln never let the world forget that the Civil War involved an even larger issue. 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. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Over the course of the next two years, the Lincoln administration and the Army imprisoned nearly 18,000 American citizens without bringing charges against them. Known for his leadership during the Civil War, he worked to preserve the Union and eventually abolished slavery, earning the nickname “Great Emancipator.” His life was tragically cut short on April 14, 1865, when he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.

Personal Facts

• Full Name: Abraham Lincoln
• Born: February 12, 1809, Hardin County, Kentucky
• Parents: Thomas and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln
• Education: Limited
• Occupation: Lawyer, Politician
• Positions: U.S.

  Congressman, 16th President of the United States

• Spouse: Mary Todd (1840)
• Nickname(s): Honest Abe, Great Emancipator, Rail Splitter
• Died: April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.
• Buried: Oak Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield, Illinois

Biography

Early Life

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on his family’s farm, named Sinking Spring, in Hardin County, Kentucky.

Douglass was in favour of allowing the extension of slavery – if citizens voted for it. When support for the war waned as battlefield casualties mounted, he gradually shifted the focus of the war to the abolition of slavery. Lincoln’s death was widely mourned across the country.

Posterity

Lincoln is widely regarded as one of America’s most influential and important presidents.

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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