Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops in defense of the capital ; McClellan, who consistently overestimated the strength of Confederate troops, blamed this decision for the ultimate failure of the Peninsula Campaign.

Garfield argued with his superior for an immediate advance, also insisted upon by Lincoln and Rosecrans's commander, Gen. Halleck.

The Regulator captain Dick Brewer assured them they would be taken to Lincoln, but other Regulators insisted on killing the prisoners.

Hooker's biographer reports that there were numerous stories indicating that Abraham Lincoln attempted to intercede with Sherman, urging that Hooker be appointed to command the Army of the Tennessee, but Sherman threatened to resign if the president insisted.

This position was rejected by nationalists like Abraham Lincoln, who insisted on holding the Union together while gradually ending slavery.

Some ( including Stephen A. Douglas ) maintained that the territory could not restrict slavery, as under the earlier Missouri Compromise, while others ( including Abraham Lincoln ) insisted that older Mexican legal traditions, which forbade slavery, took precedence.

At all times Lincoln insisted that he controlled the issue — only he had the war powers.

President Lincoln insisted that construction of the U. S. Capitol continue during the Civil War.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

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 '.

Lincoln's three-hour speech presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery, and set the stage for Lincoln ’ s political future.

* Anon., An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections shewing how each arises from Association, with an account of the entrance of moral evil into the world, to which are added Some Remarks on the Independent Scheme, which deduces all obligation on God ’ s part and Man ’ s from certain abstract relation, truth, & c. ( Lincoln, 1747 ; repr.

Lincoln said Douglas " cares not whether slavery is voted down or voted up ," and that, in the words of Henry Clay, he would " blow out the moral lights around us " and eradicate the love of liberty.

In 2011, Tom O ' Lincoln wrote Australia's Pacific War: Challenging a National Myth published by Interventions, which aims to debunk Australia's moral high ground in the Pacific War.

He, like Abraham Lincoln, represents belief in a moral universe ( Scheuer quotes again from Kent Gramm's Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values ( 1994 ) ( 125-26 ; also xii and passim ).

He wrote an open letter to President Lincoln on September 7, 1862, urging him to end slavery on moral grounds.

Conducted throughout 1963, and in 1964 gave moral support to the Ambassador Lincoln Gordon later admitted that the embassy had given money to anti-Goulart candidates in the 1962 municipal elections and had encouraged the plotters, that many extra United States military and intelligence personnel were operating in that four United States Navy oil tankers and the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal, in an operation code-named Operation Brother Sam, had stood off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in case of the coup troops required military assistance during the 1964 coup.

Abraham Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in both public and private.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

This view was notably promoted by Abraham Lincoln, who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political philosophy, and argued that the Declaration is a statement of principles through which the United States Constitution should be interpreted.

De Brome's foundation was confirmed in a charter of 21 January 1326, in which the Crown, represented by the Lord Chancellor, was to exercise the rights of Visitor ; a further charter drawn up in May of that year gave the rights of Visitor to Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln, Oxford at that time being part of the diocese of Lincoln.

On December 16, 1861, Justin Morrill ( VT ) introduced a bill into the U. S. House of Representatives, " to establish at least one college in each state upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil ..." President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act into effect in July of the following year.

In 1139 the small order opened its first new foundation on the island of Haverholm, a gift from Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln.

The University of Lincoln is an English university founded in 1992, with origins tracing back to the foundation and association with the Hull School of Art 1861.

Although his foundation of Lincoln College, Oxford was incomplete at the time of his death, the college's future was eventually secured and Fleming's manuscript books became the core collection of the collegiate library.

The foundation also supports the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Funds from her foundation generate exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center and help publish the Lincoln Center Theater Review.

Founded in 1862 as a patriotic society to support the Union and the policies of President Abraham Lincoln, it laid the philosophical foundation of other Union Leagues across a nation torn by Civil War.

As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

Most Republicans agreed with Lincoln that the North was the aggrieved party, as the Slave Power tightened its grasp on the national government with the Dred Scott decision and the presidency of James Buchanan.

McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint John Pope, a Republican, as head of the new Army of Virginia.

To broaden his coalition to include War Democrats as well as Republicans, Lincoln ran under the label of the new Union Party.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

" 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.

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

President Lincoln and other Republicans were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation, which in 1863 declared the freedom of slaves in ten Confederate states then in rebellion, would be seen as a temporary war measure, since it was solely based on Lincoln's war powers.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

In the Border States, War Democrats joined with Republicans as the National Union Party, with Lincoln at the head of the ticket.

The War Democrats fused with the Republicans to elect a Democratic Vice President, Andrew Johnson, and re-elect a Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.

From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ( who became president on April 14, 1865 ) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible, while the Radical Republicans ( as they called themselves ) used Congress to block the moderate approach, impose harsh terms, and upgrade the rights of the Freedmen ( former slaves ).

President Lincoln was the leader of the moderate Republicans and wanted to speed up Reconstruction and reunite the nation painlessly and quickly.

Lincoln formally began Reconstruction in late 1863 with his Ten percent plan, which went into operation in several states but which Radical Republicans opposed.

The Radical Republicans were outraged that Lincoln did not sign the bill.

In 1860 the Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln for president, who won the presidency and then ran for reelection in 1864.

He also tried to pressure Lincoln by repeatedly threatening resignation, which he knew would cause Lincoln difficulties with the Radical Republicans.

In addition, the Club for Growth also makes independent expenditures to pressure certain moderate Republicans to vote more conservatively ( e. g. running ads against Senators George Voinovich of Ohio, Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island after these Senators objected to certain aspects of President Bush's tax cuts ).

* On April 28, 2009, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter specifically mentioned the Club for Growth's previous activity in supporting conservative primary opponents against Republicans such as Wayne Gilchrest, Joe Schwarz, Lincoln Chafee and Heather Wilson, in his decision to run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010.

Lincoln and Douglas were both nominated for president in 1860 ( by the Republicans and Northern Democrats, respectively ), and their earlier debates helped define their respective positions in that election, but they did not meet during the Presidential campaign.