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  Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war.
The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln's death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/al16.html   (575 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia Article @ Merica.com (America)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lincoln is most famous for his roles in preserving the Union and ending slavery in the United States with the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Lincoln was among the 82 Whigs in January 1848 who defeated 81 Democrats in a procedural vote on an amendment to send a routine resolution back to committee with instructions for the committee to add the words "...a war unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States".
Lincoln was the leader of the "moderates" regarding Reconstruction policy, and usually was opposed by the Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner and Benjamin Wade in the Senate (though he cooperated with those men on most other issues).
www.merica.com /encyclopedia/Abraham_Lincoln   (8595 words)

  
 Lincoln.com - The Official Home of Lincoln Vehicles
For a limited time, get a great lease value on the Award-Winning 2008 Lincoln MKZ.
In the J.D. Power's 2007 Initial Quality Study (IQS), two Lincolns swept their vehicle segments for highest honors.
Lincoln reserves the right to change product specifications at any time without incurring obligations.
www.lincoln.com   (99 words)

  
 The History Place presents Abraham Lincoln
In December, the Lincoln family crosses the Ohio River and settles in the backwoods of Indiana.
In Autumn, Lincoln is appointed Deputy County Surveyor.
Lincoln resumes his travels in the 8th Judicial Circuit covering over 400 miles in 14 counties in Illinois.
www.historyplace.com /lincoln/index.html   (2477 words)

  
 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Lincoln Center 2007 Tree Lighting Ceremony — November 26
Operating expenses for this website have been generously underwritten in part by Mr.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
www.lincolncenter.org   (117 words)

  
 Another Lincoln in the House?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lincoln didn't do himself any immediate favors by speaking out when he did, and he decided not to run for re-election.
Lincoln's speeches are a lot like the Bible, not just because of his fondness for biblical allusions, but because a reader can find an argument for almost any case he'd like to make if he looks hard enough.
I had cause to reread Lincoln's Mexican War speech because we had the in-laws in for Thanksgiving and my father-in-law had just polished off a novel that takes in that war.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06332/741738-155.stm   (604 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln Online -- Your Source for Lincoln News
President Lincoln proclaims April 30 as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer.
Lincoln returns to his Springfield, Illinois, home from his one and only term in Congress.
Lincoln as a statesman is his confidence, as he has himself expressed it, in 'government of the people, by the people, for the people.' From his first expression as President, this has been his ruling idea."
www.netins.net /showcase/creative/lincoln.html   (153 words)

  
 What Lincoln Forsaw: Corporations "Enthroned" and Re-Writing the Laws Defining Their Existence
The Hidden Lincoln; from the Letters and Papers of William H. Herndon, by Emanuel Hertz (Viking Press, 1938, NY), details how Herndon (Lincoln's lifelong law partner) collected an extensive oral history and aggregated much of Lincoln's writings into a collection that served as the basis for many "authoritative" books on Lincoln.
Lincoln re-used his own material frequently, and virtually identical passages appear in several places.
Lincoln praises the moral rightness of both Capital and Labor, but this is invariably in the context of a nation where NO MORE THAN ONE MAN IN EIGHTis a Capitalist or a Laborer, ie, where 7/8 of the population are "self-employed" on their own farms and homesteads.
www.ratical.com /corporations/Lincoln.html   (742 words)

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