“I knowed you from a

gal…”

“My pa taught me…”

Horse trade

Musing in the mirror

Walked six miles…

Surveyor: respected for his

fairness and honesty

Never smoked, chewed,

gambled, profaned or drank

Taught himself law

“Discourage litigation”

“Some legal rights are

moral wrongs”

Often charged nothing

State Legislature

and Congress

“Two faced…”

On height…

Bad produce

By the way Mr. Speaker, did you know that I am a military hero? Yes sir, in the days of the Black Hawk War I fought, bled and came away . . . It is quite certain that I did not break my sword because I had no sword to break, but I did bend my musket badly. If he saw any live, fighting Indians, it was more than I did; but I had a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes, and although I never fainted from the loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry.[9][37]

Followed for 6 years

Criticized in the papers

1858 Senatorial race

1860 Presidential race

Rivals: Stephen A. Douglas & Lincoln

My career “a flat failure”

“Thunderstruck”

“Mousing around the library”

Invited Douglas to debate: He refused.

“I will speak on the subject tomorrow”

Congress had passed and the President signed

it into law.

Only spoke against the extension of slavery

Kansas-Nebraska

Act 1854

Know Nothings

1855

Dred Scott Decision

1857

4,000,000 Slaves

Denial of freedoms:

press, speech, religion

Mobocracy

Illegal elections

Secession

Declaration of

Independence assailed

Constitution attacked

“Judge, you will aspire to the presidency of the

United States; and if you ever turn your hand

against me or the Latter-day Saints, you will feel

the weight of the hand of the Almighty upon

you…”

First day in office: • Nation’s most dangerous crisis

• 7 states seceded, more intended to

Treason by Buchanan and his Cabinet

• 17,113 in the US Army, 2/3s in the West

Secretary of War John Floyd: a Confederate General

• Treasury almost empty

• US Navy reduced and scattered

• Did nothing to stop the secession, take over of

US forts, arsenals and mints

Lincoln was fearless

Edwin Stanton The most under qualified President

Cabinet: Team of Rivals- “He is the best of us.” “I choose always to make my statute of limitations a short one.”

Letters written in anger

Anyone could see

the President

The unfinished

dome

Unmatched integrity

“… incapable of duplicity.”

Only one term in House of Representatives

Would not speak ill of any political opponent

“Make no contracts that bind me.”

“I derive no satisfaction from defeating my opponents.”

Edwin Stanton

Salmon Chase

Antietam

George McClellan

McClellan despised Lincoln

President Lincoln is, "nothing more than a well-meaning baboon", a "gorilla", and "ever unworthy of ... his high position."

6] General in Chief: “I can do it all.”

He snubbed the president and Secretary Seward "If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I

would like to borrow it for a time."

"McClellan is to me one of the mysteries of the war."[1]

U.S. Grant

Remarkably astute politician Able to get opponents to support him “Last best hope of earth” “…that something that held great promise to all

the people of the world to all time to come.”

Lincoln’s shear brainpower must have

exceeded that of all other presidents, Jefferson

included.” Hans Morganthau, Eminent scholar

While Lincoln’s intellect was a gift, his

unmatched morality was his choice.

Infuriated the Generals and Secretary Stanton

Lincoln suffered with the bloodshed

“Slow walker...”

Thirteenth Amendment

Forgiveness and inclusion

of the vanquished

South

“...with firmness in the right, as God

gives us to see the right.”

“I have never had a feeling politically

that did not spring from sentiments

embodied in the Declaration of

Independence.”

“…something in that Declaration giving

liberty, not alone to the people of this

country, but hope to the world for all

future time.”

Gen. Scott & Seward: “surrender the fort.” • 3 times he quietly resisted

• Submitted his own plan

• Looking far beyond his advisors

• “You have no oath…

• July 4th address: “to abandon that position would

be utterly ruinous…it would be our national

destruction comsummated.”

To hold, occupy and possess

“You have no oath registered in Heaven

to destroy the government, while I shall

have the most solemn one to ‘preserve,

protect and defend it [the Constitution of

the United States].”’

For one month the nation heard nothing

from their backwoods President

His first overt act was the letter to

Governor Pickens of South Carolina

“I’m sending food.”

“If He has a work for me and I believe He does, I think I am ready.” “...I have been but His

humble instrument.”

Breakfast with his son, Robert

Buoyant, cheerful Last Cabinet meeting

Afternoon with Mary Good bye

Ford’s Theater

Charles Chiniquy

Always believed he

would not survive

his Presidency

“One final sacrifice…

I am that sacrifice.”

“I have so many instances of His direction in my life…”

“Why would He not reveal it to me…? “God has ruled in favor of the slave. A foreboding that he would not come back

alive

Dream: “Who is dead in the White House?

Some inexplicable craft…

Lincoln’s Greatness?

Administrative?

Integrity gained him the election

Regard for all, even enemies

Always fully considered the opponents point of view

Placed needs of others beyond his own

Sought only God’s will

-Abraham Lincoln