Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

" Republicans denounced the Dred Scott decision and promised to overturn it ; Lincoln warned that the next Dred Scott decision could threaten Northern states with slavery.

In 1861, after the paper was purchased by Wilbur F. Storey, the Times began espousing the Copperhead point of view in supporting Southern Democrats and denounced the policies of Abraham Lincoln.

Whigs, such as Congressman Abraham Lincoln denounced the war, but it was quite popular outside New England.

Vallandigham " publicly denounced the ‘ wicked and cruel ' war by which ‘ King Lincoln ' was ‘ crushing out liberty and erecting a despotism ,'" and called for Lincoln's removal from the presidency.

Local politicians denounced Lincoln and Congress as despotic, seeing the draft law as a violation of their local autonomy.

The biography was received unfavorably by Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's son, and was denounced for a lack of discretion.

Soon afterward, on August 5, 1864, Davis joined Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, who had piloted the bill through the Senate, in issuing the so-called Wade-Davis Bill, which violently denounced President Lincoln for encroaching on the domain of Congress and insinuated that the presidential policy would leave slavery unimpaired in the reconstructed states.

In March 1861 in his famous First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system:

Lincoln appeared before the Illinois Supreme Court in 175 cases, in 51 as sole counsel, of which 31 were decided in his favor.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

To fill Chief Justice Taney's seat on the Supreme Court, he named the choice of the Radicals, Salmon P. Chase, who Lincoln believed would uphold the emancipation and paper money policies.

Salmon P. Chase, class of 1826, was an American politician: Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

* Taney Arrest Warrant, purported 1861 quashed secret order from President Lincoln to arrest the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

This would make her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Among its supporters were judge and future Supreme Court Justice, David Davis and local businessman and land holder Jesse W. Fell whose friend, Abraham Lincoln, was the attorney hired by the Board of Education to draw up legal documents to secure the school's funding Founded as Illinois State Normal University, its name was reflective of its primary mission as a teacher training institution ( at that time called a normal school ).

But to placate the Radical wing of the party, Lincoln mentioned Chase as a potential Supreme Court nominee.

Hopkins ' support of Abraham Lincoln also often put him at odds with some of Maryland's most prominent people, particularly Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who continually opposed Lincoln's presidential decisions, such as his policies of limiting habeas corpus and stationing troops in Maryland.

" In the United States, the Commentaries influenced John Marshall, James Wilson, John Jay, John Adams, James Kent and Abraham Lincoln, and remain frequently cited in Supreme Court decisions.

The school was named after Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his United States Supreme Court case and who served as Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln.

As a Congressman, he made efforts to establish a Supreme Court of the Confederate States and supported President Jefferson Davis, with the exception of Dais's aside suspending the writ of habeas corpus for the duration of the war ( as had Lincoln in the North ).

In 1865 he moved to Vermillion, Dakota, when Abraham Lincoln appointed him an associate justice of the territorial Supreme Court.

Lincoln put all factions in his cabinet, including Radicals like Salmon P. Chase ( Secretary of the Treasury ), whom he later appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, James Speed ( Attorney General ) and Edwin M. Stanton ( Secretary of War ).

* Salmon P. Chase: U. S. Treasury Secretary under President Lincoln ; Supreme Court chief justice ; sought 1868 Democratic nomination as moderate.

Lincoln asked Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.

Having learned that John Archibald Campbell, an Alabaman serving on the Supreme Court, had decided to resign in light of his state's secession, President Lincoln proposed to appoint Crittenden to the vacant seat.

Prominent faculty members include noted author Robert Hellenga, psychologist of materialistic values Tim Kasser, Middle East expert Robert Seibert, Evolutionary Psychologist Frank McAndrew, noted expert on 20th century American art and director of The National Center for Midwest Art and Design Gregory Gilbert, former Supreme Court Fellow Lane Sunderland, educational psychologist / gifted education & literacy specialist Stephen T. Schroth, heterodox economist Steven Cohn and co-chairs of the Knox-based Lincoln Studies Center: Rodney Davis and Douglas L. Wilson.

Lincoln University has an impressive list of notable alumni which includes: U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall ; Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes ; musical legend, Cab Calloway ; the first President of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe ; the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ; song artist and activist Gil Scott-Heron ; Tony Award winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne ; and architect of the debate team portrayed in the film The Great Debaters, Melvin B. Tolson.

Lincoln nominated Miller to the Supreme Court on July 16, 1862, after the beginning of the American Civil War.

On March 6, 1863, Abraham Lincoln appointed Field to the newly created ninth Supreme Court seat, to achieve both regional balance ( he was a Westerner ) and political balance ( he was a Democrat, albeit a Unionist one ).

The morning celebration also featured remarks by Sen. Dick Durbin ; Lincoln scholar and ALBC Co-Chair Harold Holzer ; recently retired Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice – and ALBC Commissioner – Frank J. Williams ; and author Nikki Giovanni reciting her newest work, which was written especially for the Bicentennial.

On October 13, 1890, Founders Myron Mckee Crandall, Owen Lincoln Potter, and Monroe Marsh Sweetland were placed on the Supreme Council and authorized to proceed with expansion plans.

Lincoln tried to force Douglas to choose between the principle of popular sovereignty proposed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the majority decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, which stated that slavery could not legally be excluded from U. S. territories ( since Douglas professed great respect for Supreme Court decisions, and accused the Republicans of disrespecting the court, yet this aspect of the Dred Scott decision was contrary to Douglas ' views and politically unpopular in Illinois ).

He created murals for the Harlem Hospital, Golden State Mutual, American Museum of Natural History, Public School 154, the Bronx Family and Criminal Court and the Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1496, he became a student at Lincoln ’ s Inn, one of the Inns of Court, where he remained until 1502, when he was called to the bar.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the presidency after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was denied the opportunity to appoint a justice by a contraction in the size of the Court.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

Following Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House and the assassination of President Lincoln, Sherman met with Johnston at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina, to negotiate a Confederate surrender.

* Jew's Court, Steep Hill, Lincoln, England is arguably the second oldest synagogue in Europe in current use.

Its founding was related to a legal protest by a moonshiner, who claimed that the Logan County Court that had found him guilty did not have jurisdiction over his case, because his still was actually located in Lincoln County.

Pilgrims devoted to Hugh of Lincoln flocked to the city as late as the early 20th century, when a well was constructed in the former Jewish neighborhood of Jews ' Court and advertised as the well in which Hugh's body was found.

Abraham Lincoln, was elected President in 1860, Lincoln appointed him American Consul in Paris in 1861, progressing to Chargé d ' Affaires, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Napoleon III.

The last discipline case to be heard by a Consistory Court was that of Brandon Jackson, the Dean of Lincoln, who was acquitted of sexual misconduct in 1995.