Abraham Lincoln

Commander In Cheif: The Hero of the common people

The story of Abraham Lincolns Presidency

It had been a long time coming. Hopelessly divided by the issue of slavery, thirty-one million American citizens were in 1860

Called upon to elect the 16th President of the United States. The Democratic Party met At its National Party Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to choose their nominee

for the presidency. Split over slavery, each faction, Northern Democrats on the one hand and Southern Democrats on the other, presented its own opposite proposal for the party platform. In

February 1860, Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi claimed that neither the Congress of the United States nor the territorial parliaments had the power to touch slavery. Southern Democrats

and few Northern pro-slavery Democrats support the Davis resolution: "the Government of a Territory (...) is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United

States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation."

The Southerners' desire was to pass a slave code, that is, a federa

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The ten-month siege was over and Richmond was almost undefended. When Lincoln helped to establish a new Louisiana government in February 1864, the Radicals chose not to readmit Louisiana to Congress; because the sole reason of 'banishing slavery' was simply not enough. Scratched on a window pane in Room 22 in the McHenry House were the words "Abe Lincoln Departed This Life August 13th, 1864 By The Effects of Poison. Booth went out the back door, climbed on his horse, and escaped from the city using the Navy Yard Bridge. On April 11, a large crowd gathered around the White House in Washington, D. When Negro citizens recognized the president, one Afro-American exclaimed: "Bless the Lord, there is the great Messiah!. He has been known as the nations greatest president. For four long years, twenty million Yankees with their well-equipped armies were not able to overcome the five million people of the Confederacy. He held one final meeting with his co-conspirators [See Appendix B]. on the morning of April 15 at the Petersen House (across the street from the theatre). It seemed like an ideal time to seize Lincoln in his carriage. Booth still didn't come out and was shot to death by Sergeant Boston Corbett. Even though Lincoln horrified a violent clash, the war was his from the beginning.


The Presidential party arrived at Ford's at about 8:30 P. Grant allowed the rebels to return home and did not punish them as long as they did not take up arms against the United States again; Lee was also free to go.