Similarly, when a reporter once questioned Lincoln in cryptic fashion, Lincoln refused to make any further statement.

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 a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

He once suggested that God saw fit to have Lincoln assassinated so that he could become president.

After Booth shot him once in the back of the head, Lincoln died the next morning.

The band ’ s renaissance culminated with a change in name ; from Hybrid Theory, the band once again changed its name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica ’ s Lincoln Park.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

Matthew Paris reports that the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Grosseteste, once said to Simon's eldest son Henry: " My beloved child, both you and your father will meet your deaths on one day, and by one kind of death, but it will be in the name of justice and truth.

The octagonal exterior form appears in a carving from about 1260 in Lincoln Cathedral that shows an angel apparently playing two instruments at once ( see Gardner ).

Will Rogers Park, Lincoln Park, Trosper Park, and Woodson Park were once connected by the Grand Boulevard loop, some sections of which no longer exist.

The new museum will incorporate the facade of the old South Park Presbyterian Church, where Abraham Lincoln once spoke.

While Toledo has remained the industrial hub of Lincoln County, the city has never regained the position it once had.

It once was part of a failed effort to create a new state of Lincoln out of parts of western Montana, Idaho's northern panhandle and eastern Washington.

* once followed Ecorse Road into Lincoln Park, then ran concurrently with U. S. Route 25 to Downtown Detroit.

Apple growing was once a major agricultural industry in Lincoln, but has recently declined due to changing climate conditions and high costs of upkeep.

Lincoln was once home to a significant Chinese American community, but it violently drove all its Chinese American residents out of town in March 1886.

The Lincoln School Museum was once a one-room schoolhouse.

The town was also once the home of Lincoln Park, ( 1894-1987 ) a former amusement park which dated from the late 19th century as a park-stop along the trolley line ( and US Route 6 ) from Fall River to New Bedford just east of the junction of Lake Noquochoke and the Westport River.

Livermore and its neighbor to the west, Lincoln, occupy a large area of uninhabited woodland once known as the " Pemigewasset Wilderness " ( a portion of which is preserved in the present-day WMNF Pemigewasset Wilderness in Lincoln ).

It was once claimed that Jesus had stolen the stags from Lincoln, but the counter-argument ( from an antiquarian with close Lincoln connections ) was that the origins of each were distinct.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

Lincoln wrote, " I think I am a Whig, but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist, even though I do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.

Sharing this fear, Lincoln wrote and signed a pledge that, if he should lose the election, he would still defeat the Confederacy before turning over the White House:

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

In a review of the book, Time Magazine wrote, " General Jackson's opinions need surprise no one who has observed George Washington and Abraham Lincoln zealously following the Communist Party Line in recent years.

Hay and Nicolay wrote a formal 10-volume biography of Lincoln ( Abraham Lincoln: A History, 1890 ) and prepared an edition of his collected works.

Thomas Barlow, Bishop of Lincoln wrote Execreitationes aliquot metaphysicae de Deo ( 1637 ) and spoke often of natural theology during the reign of Charles II.

In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

Presaging a theme he would bring to the fore, using similar language, in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, Lincoln wrote: “ You have kindly adverted to the trial through which this Republic is now passing.

Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.

During the remainder of Paley's life his time was divided between Bishopwearmouth and Lincoln, during which time he wrote Natural Theology, despite his increasingly debilitating illness.

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.

Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two-volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag ( 1927 ), and a book of poems called Good Morning, America ( 1928 ) in Elmhurst.

He also wrote a life of St Hugh of Lincoln.

At that point, however, " demand came to an unexpected halt ... No more copies were produced for many years, and if, as is claimed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1862 as ' the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war ,' the work had effectively been out of print for many years.

" Historians are undecided if Lincoln actually said this line, and in a letter that Stowe wrote to her husband a few hours after meeting with Lincoln no mention of this comment was made.

In 1914, Effie Gladding wrote Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway about her travel adventures on the road with her husband Thomas.

Subsequently, Gladding wrote the foreword to the Lincoln Highway Association's first road guide, directing it to women motorists.

In 1927, humorist Frederic Van de Water wrote The Family Flivvers to Frisco, an autobiographical account of him and his wife, a young couple from New York City, piling their belongings and their six-year-old son ( dubbed the “ Supercargo ”) into their Model T Ford and camping their way to San Francisco on the Lincoln Highway, traveling over through twelve states in thirty-seven days.

From 1995 through 2009, author and historian Gregory Franzwa ( 1926 – 2009 ) wrote a state-by-state series of books about the Lincoln Highway.