Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

For some time, despondency in some Northern quarters had been displayed in two ways -- an eagerness for peace and a dissatisfaction with Lincoln.

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.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

As usual, Mrs. Lincoln had lost her head, but nobody blamed her for doing so now.

Isaac Pitt, one of the men from Lincoln, had taken a musket ball in his belly ; ;

Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time ; however, they both had second thoughts about their relationship.

Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.

Lincoln demanded that Polk show Congress the exact spot on which blood had been shed and prove that the spot was on American soil.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

Lincoln argued that the Founding Fathers had little use for popular sovereignty and had repeatedly sought to restrict slavery.

Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123.

There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.

" Lincoln, however, did support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had passed in Congress and protected slavery in those states where it already existed.

Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states:

In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.

Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation.

Privately, Lincoln concluded at this point that the slave base of the Confederacy had to be eliminated.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

In the election of 1860, he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President Buchanan's course in dealing with secession and eventually supported Lincoln.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

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.

" Lincoln wholeheartedly supported Clay's economic programs.

Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, whom Medill helped secure the Presidency in 1860.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.

When Lincoln won the nomination, Seward loyally supported him and made a long speaking tour of the West in the autumn of 1860.

The race put Breckinridge at odds with his uncle, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, who had supported Lincoln.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

The opposing Fellows, led by Edmunds, appealed to the first set of statutes, claiming the Crown as Visitor, making Gibson's decisions invalid ; Provost Carter, supported by Bishop Gibson, appealed to the second set, claiming the Bishop of Lincoln as Visitor.

In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.

John Addams was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party, served as an Illinois State Senator ( 1855 – 70 ), and supported his friend Abraham Lincoln in his candidacies, for senator ( 1854 ) and the presidency ( 1860 ).

The Murphy-Dolan faction were allied with Lincoln County Sheriff Brady, and supported by the Jesse Evans Gang.

On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or fought for the Confederate Army, with full restoration of property rights, subject only to taking an oath of allegiance.

Rhodes disliked the fact that Hanna had supported the successful Republican candidate, former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln.

The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions had been discarded as a source for birth data of outstanding athletes when its " yield strongly supported Gauquelin's hypothesis.

Abraham Lincoln won the nomination, and Chase supported him.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed ; see Abraham Lincoln on slavery.

President Abraham Lincoln was concerned with public opinion in the four border states that remained in the Union, as they had numerous slaveholders, as well as with northern Democrats who supported the war but were less supportive of abolition than many northern Republicans.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

Lincoln insisted the moral foundation of the Republicans required opposition to slavery, and rejected any " groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong ".

At this time Wright changed his middle name from Lincoln to Lloyd in honor of his mother's family, the Lloyd Joneses.

* The Academy at Lincoln, a middle school in Greensboro, North Carolina

Mary Todd Lincoln, for example, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was a laudanum addict, as was the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was famously interrupted in the middle of an opium-induced writing session of Kubla Khan by a " person from Porlock.

The area includes government elementary, middle, and high schools including 25 different schools which include: The elementary are Bethany School, Moss Street, Central, Leaksville-Spray, Dillard, Monroeton School, Douglass, Draper, South End School, Lawsonville Avenue, Stoneville, Lincoln, Wentworth, Huntsville, Williamsburg, and a magnet school New Vision.

The Lincoln County School District holds grades pre-school to grade twelve, that consists of one elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.

The public primary schools ( Lincoln, Mann, Longfellow, Beye, Holmes, Whittier, Irving, and Hatch ) and the middle schools, Percy Julian Middle School ( formerly Nathaniel Hawthorne ), and Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School ( formerly Ralph Waldo Emerson ), are operated by the Oak Park Elementary School District.

The Lincoln Statue rests in the middle of the intersection of North Washington ( IL Route 159 ) and Fayette Streets.

The La Porte Community School Corporation consists of one high school: La Porte High School ; two middle schools: Boston Middle School and Kesling Middle School ; and eight elementary schools: Crichfield, Hailmann, Riley, Handley, Indian Trail, Kingsbury, Kingsford Heights and Lincoln.

Cairo is located at the intersection of what was the east-west U. S. Route 30 ( the Lincoln Highway ) and the north-south State Route 65 (" Ottawa Road ") in the middle of farming country.

The district has one high school, Emmaus High School ( for grades nine through 12 ), two middle schools, Eyer Middle School and Lower Macungie Middle School ( for grades six through eight ), and six elementary schools ( for kindergarten through fifth grade ), Alburtis Elementary School, Jefferson Elementary School, Lincoln Elementary School, Macungie Elementary School, Shoemaker Elementary School, and Wescosville Elementary School.

Lincoln School Department has two early learning schools, Fairlawn and Northern Early Learning centers, four local schools, Saylesville Elementary School, Lonsdale Elementary School, Central Elementary School, and Northern Lincoln Elementary School, one middle school, Lincoln Middle School, and one high school, Lincoln Senior High School.

The town is home to the elementary / middle / high school serving the Reardan-Edwall School District, covering over in Lincoln and Spokane counties.

Winchester has five elementary schools ( Ambrose, Lincoln, Lynch, Muraco, and Vinson-Owen ), one middle school, McCall Middle School, and one high school, Winchester High School.

Only the middle section from Chesterfield to Lincoln was ever built, opening in March 1897 ( the Bolsover station was " Bolsover South "), but the section between Chesterfield and Shirebrook was brought to a premature demise in December 1951 by the deteriorating state of its biggest engineering feature, the 2, 624-yard ( 2, 399-metre ) Bolsover Tunnel which ran beneath the limestone ridge on which stands the castle.

The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and through the middle of the town, where it forded the Welland, eventually reaching Lincoln ; they built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash.

Bradlee and Quinn live at two homes, the Todd Lincoln House in Georgetown, Washington, DC, The middle part of the house was built in 1792.

* Lincoln Hall, a middle school in the Lincolnwood School District 74 in Lincolnwood, Illinois.

In the era when animal power dominated transportation there was no safe way to cross east-west in the middle of the range, only nearer its extremes save for the presence of a few rough passages opened mid-range during the colonial era such as Braddock's Road and Forbes Road, later improved into America's first National Roads ( respectively Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway or designated U. S. 40 and U. S. 30 in later years ).