Abraham
Lincoln(1861 to 1865) was born on February 12th, 1809.Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. Serving as the 16th
president of the United States, Lincoln carried out many vital endeavors. His
greatest accomplishment, without a doubt, was the initiation of ‘Emancipation
Proclamation’. Lincoln has consistently been ranked by scholars as one of the
greatest of all U.S. Presidents.
Abraham
Lincoln became the president when everything was going wrong for the USA. There
were still a number of Border States which were left undecided on whether to
stay in the Union or not, he wanted to hold on to these states if he possibly
could. Secondly a lot of Northerners believed that neither the Union nor
slavery was worth fighting about. Fighting a war at that time would mean a lot
of people not supporting him. He had the gifted ability to make the people
understand what he was doing and when Civil War broke out he made them
understand that the USA was the only genuine democratic government in the world
and his job was to hold the Union together. Since slavery had started this
whole mess in the first place, he believed that it had to perish for the nation
to live. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and worked for the 13th
amendment to ban slavery. Although these did not effectively ensure the end of
slavery, it won sympathy for the North throughout the world which culminated
into its victory in the end. He is arguably the most mourned president ever.
With
a dream to reunite the nation, Abram Lincoln was elected as the 16th president
of the United States. He served his duty towards his country as president until
his assassination in April 1865. He was the most influential political leader of
not only USA, but the whole world, as he let the United States through the
political and moral crisis during its Civil War. He started rapid development
of the economy while building banks, canals and railroads. He granted tariffs
to encourage the establishment of factories. He opposed the war declaration
again Mexico in 1846. He took various steps to end the slavery in his country
as he protected escaped slaves using army while also encouraging the Border
States to outlaw slavery.
Abraham
Lincoln led the country during the country’s greatest military and moral
crisis: The American Civil War. He was instrumental in reforms like abolishing
slavery, modernizing the economy and strengthening the national government. He
was born and brought up in a poor family and was self-educated. He was also a
one time member of the United States House of Representatives during 1840s.
Lincoln has been regarded both by scholars, academicians and the public as the
greatest president of the United States.
An
exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each
state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election
campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion,
Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation
speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering
and bitter divisiveness.
Elected
as the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln came to lead the
nation during arguably its most trying years. As fomenting societal issues
centering on slavery led to the eruption of the American Civil war in 1861,
Lincoln led the nation politically and militarily over the course of the next 4
years until his tragic assassination in 1864. Among his legacies include his
Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation, but perhaps his most
important feat is that he laid the conditions for reuniting the Union, and for
that we can grateful for the resolute 50 states we have today.
By
the 1970s Lincoln had become a hero to political conservatives for his intense
nationalism, support for business, his insistence on stopping the spread of
human bondage, his acting in terms of Lockean and Burkean principles on behalf
of both liberty and tradition, and his devotion to the principles of the
Founding Fathers. As a Whig activist, Lincoln was a spokesman for business
interests, favoring high tariffs, banks, internal improvements, and railroads
in opposition to the agrarian Democrats. William C. Harris found that Lincoln's
"reverence for the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the laws under it,
and the preservation of the Republic and its institutions undergirded and
strengthened his conservatism". James G. Randall emphasizes his tolerance
and especially his moderation "in his preference for orderly progress, his
distrust of dangerous agitation, and his reluctance toward ill digested schemes
of reform". Randall concludes that, "he was conservative in his
complete avoidance of that type of so-called 'radicalism' which involved abuse
of the South, hatred for the slaveholder, thirst for vengeance, partisan
plotting, and ungenerous demands that Southern institutions be transformed
overnight by outsiders.
As
a young man, Lincoln was a religious skeptic, or, in the words
of a biographer,
an iconoclast.
Later in life, Lincoln's frequent use of religious imagery and language might
have reflected his own personal beliefs or might have been a device to appeal
to his audiences, who were mostly evangelical Protestants. He never joined a
church, although he frequently attended with his wife. However, he was deeply
familiar with the Bible, and he both quoted and praised it. He was private
about his beliefs and respected the beliefs of others. Lincoln never made a
clear profession of Christian beliefs. However he did believe in an
all-powerful God that shaped events and, by 1865, was expressing those beliefs
in major speeches.
On
April
14, 1865, five days after the April 9th surrender of Confederate
commanding general Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John
Wilkes Booth at point-blank range in Ford’s Theater in 1865.