Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

" As the Confederacy's defeat became more certain in 1865, Booth decried the end of slavery and Lincoln's election to a second term, " making himself a king ", the actor fumed, in " wild tirades ", his sister recalled.

After Abraham Lincoln's election, Garfield was more inclined to arms than negotiations, saying, " Other states may arm to the teeth, but if Ohio so much as cleans her rusty muskets, it is said to have offended our brethren in the South.

In the 1864 Congressional election, Garfield's district base weakened due to his refusal to support Lincoln's re-election, but was reinvigorated when he reminded his constituents of his traditional disdain of partisanship ; he was then nominated by acclamation and his re-election was assured.

" He also claimed that the story was confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln, and partially confirmed by Private Secretary John Hay ( who thought it dated from Lincoln's nomination, not his election ).

Immediately after Lincoln's election in November 1860, he wrote to his brother, Thomas Hunt Morgan, then a student at Kenyon College in northern Ohio, " Our State will not I hope secedeI have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good President at least we ought to give him a fair trial & then if he commits some overt act all the South will be a unit.

Nonetheless, the complex issue of slavery, as well as competing understandings of federalism, party politics, expansionism, sectionalism and social structures, tariffs, economics and general values brought to a head by Lincoln's election stirred violent passions and fears of abolition of slavery in the southern states.

The city's large Democrat community feared the impact of Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860.

On December 20, 1860, shortly after Abraham Lincoln's victory in the presidential election of 1860, South Carolina adopted an ordinance declaring its secession from the United States of America and by February 1861, six more Southern states had adopted similar ordinances of secession.

After Abraham Lincoln's election and the secession of several Southern states, Shaw joined the 7th New York Infantry Regiment and marched with it to the defense of Washington, D. C., in April 1861.

The Democrats retained control of the Illinois legislature, and Douglas thus retained his seat in the U. S. Senate ( at that time United States Senators were elected by the state legislatures, not by popular vote ); however, Lincoln's national profile was greatly raised, paving the way for his election as president of the United States two years later.

1860 was a critical election that marked a stark change in existing patterns of party loyalties among groups of voters ; Abraham Lincoln's election was a watershed in the balance of power of competing national and parochial interests and affiliations.

There is some historical use of blue for Democrats and red for Republicans: in the late 19th century and early 20th century, Texas county election boards used colour coding to help Spanish speakers and illiterates identify the parties, however, this system was not applied consistently in Texas and was not picked up on a national level ; for instance, in 1888, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison used maps that coded blue for the Republicans, the color Harrison perceived to represent the Union and " Lincoln's Party " and red for the Democrats.

The state largely opposed Lincoln's election in 1860 and had voted for the Southern Democratic candidate John C. Breckinridge.

However, the widespread media coverage of the debates greatly raised Lincoln's national profile, making him a viable candidate for nomination as the Republican candidate in the upcoming 1860 presidential election.

In 2009, with the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth coinciding with the election of the first black American president, Harlan's views on civil rights-far ahead of his time-were celebrated and remembered by many.

He became a strong supporter of secession from the United States after Lincoln's election and South Carolina's secession in 1860.

" The election was a sweep for Lincoln's party, which gained control over the entire state government.

In the days following Lincoln's election, when it became evident that several southern states were advocating secession, Blair was among the leaders of a new political movement in Missouri, the Unconditional Union Party, which advocated the use of force, if necessary, to prevent Missouri from following suit.

Lincoln's election in November led to a declaration of secession by South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

" He was not convinced that Lincoln's election was an inescapable harbinger of war.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Gwin helped organize abortive secret discussions between Lincoln's new Secretary of State, William H. Seward, and some of Southern leaders to find a compromise which would avoid the permanent dissolution of the Union.

The phrase in reverse is echoed in Abraham Lincoln's words in his February 26, 1860, Cooper Union Address (" Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it ") in his attempt to defend a policy of neutral engagement with those who practised slavery, perhaps to appear more nationally oriented and religiously convicted in hopes of winning the presidential election later that year ( which he did ).

Defying Lincoln's prediction that " the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here ," the Address became the most quoted speech in American history.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

It became the first of Shakespeare's plays to be presented with movable flats painted with generic scenery behind the proscenium arch of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.

Adams became a leading opponent of slave power and articulated a theory whereby the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers, a correct prediction of Abraham Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Abraham Lincoln's law office was next door to the law office of Milton Hay, John's uncle, and Lincoln thus became acquainted with John Hay.

He became a preacher at Lincoln's Inn early in 1647, and despite his royalist loyalties was protected by his friends in Parliament.

Upon Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, who had been elected with Lincoln in 1864 as the latter's vice president, became president.

Denied the nomination, he became a loyal member of Lincoln's wartime cabinet, and played a role in preventing foreign intervention early in the war.

Other Rogersvillians saw President Lincoln's invasion of Tennessee as an unprecedented invasion of their homes and an incursion by Federal power ; these people became strong Confederates.

On 17 May 1636, Hale was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, and immediately became the pupil of William Noy.

They do remember Abraham Lincoln's speech which became known as the Gettysburg Address.

In 1765 he was appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and in 1767 he became archdeacon of Gloucester.

He became a composer to Drury Lane theatre in 1693 and when some of the actors broke off to form their own company at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1695, he composed music for them as well.

1825 became a historical footnote when President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth arrived at her house after crossing the Potomac River on his escape route.

It is felt that Lincoln's Inn became a formally organised Inn of Court soon after the Earl's death in 1310.

As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish ( in Manchester Square ) and Portuguese ( in South Street, Grosvenor Square ) chapels, and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary's chapel, Moorfields.

In 1859, he was elected Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; although he entered Lincoln's Inn the following year, he became lecturer and then tutor at Oriel.

He studied afterwards at Edinburgh University and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1788 .< ref > After a successful attempt at law he became his father's private secretary from 1794, though he was brought in as MP for Hastings in 1794, and then Rye in 1796.

Arbuthnot was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1975 and became a practising barrister.

He was called to the bar ( Lincoln's Inn ) in 1876, and became a competent equity lawyer and conveyancer, but finally devoted himself to comparative jurisprudence and especially the history of English law.

He became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and practised successfully as a barrister.

Thanks to the patronage of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, who gave Murray £ 200 a year to live on, Murray could afford to study at the bar, and became a member of Lincoln's Inn on 23 April 1724.