To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

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.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

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.

The idea was never commercialized, but Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.

As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.

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.

He felt such action could only be taken by the commander-in-chief using war powers granted to the president by the Constitution, and Lincoln was planning to take that action.

Lincoln Park, the largest of the city's parks, covers and has over 20 million visitors each year, making it second only to Central Park in New York City in number of visitors.

The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln ( circled ) at Gettysburg, taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before the speech.

Shortly after Everett's well-received remarks, Lincoln spoke for only a few minutes.

It is the only version to which Lincoln affixed his signature, and the last he is known to have written.

Thus, it has been suggested that Adams is the only major figure in American history who knew both the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln, though Martin Van Buren knew Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and his mentor Aaron Burr and met the young Lincoln while on a campaign trip through Illinois.

Not only did the band contribute the theme, songs from all of the Giants ' previous albums were used on the show: for example, the infamous punching-the-kid-in-the-wheelchair scene from the first episode was done to the strains of " Pencil Rain " from Lincoln.

On April 14, only five days after Grant's victory at Appomattox, President Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater, and died the next morning.

Improvements in combustion chamber design and piston form enabled lighter V8 engines to surpass the V12 in power starting from the 1930s ; only the smaller, H-Series Lincoln V-12 remained after WWII and it was replaced by a V8 in 1949.

In contrast, Lincoln was to get only 10 percent of the Missouri vote in the 1860 Presidential Election.

The following four years would be the only time that the president and vice-president were from different parties ( John Quincy Adams and John C. Calhoun would later be elected president and vice-president as political opponents, but they were both Democratic-Republicans candidates ; Andrew Johnson, Abraham Lincoln's second vice-president, was a Democrat, but Lincoln ran on a combined Union ticket in 1864, not as a strict Republican ).

When Lincoln vetoed the bill, the Radicals retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.

Lincoln vetoed the Radical plan, the Wade – Davis Bill of 1864, which was much more strict than the Ten-Percent Plan.

The bill passed both houses of Congress on July 2, 1864, but was pocket vetoed by Lincoln and never took effect.

She lobbied Jack Warner to make two films, Ethan Frome and a biography of Mary Todd Lincoln ; however, Warner vetoed each proposal.

Hooker's initial plan was to seize Richmond instead, but Lincoln immediately vetoed that idea, so the Army of the Potomac began to march north, attempting to locate Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as it slipped down the Shenandoah Valley into Pennsylvania.

The Radicals passed their own Reconstruction plan through Congress in 1864, but Lincoln vetoed it and was putting his own policies in effect when he was assassinated in 1865.

Radicals passed the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864 ; Lincoln vetoed it.

Grant considered unity of command to be essential and recommended George Meade for the position, but Lincoln vetoed that because Radicals had launched a major political attack on Meade.

Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates ( the top four were elected ), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.

Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers ' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.

* 1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

These speeches set the stage for the Lincoln-Douglas debates four years later, during which Lincoln was running for Douglas's senate seat.

This dilemma was seen most notably in 1861 and 1933, as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt ( plus the newly elected Senators and Representatives ) had to wait four months before they, and the incoming-Congresses, could deal with the secession of Southern states and the Great Depression respectively.

For example, the six lanes of the Lincoln Tunnel can be changed from three in-bound and three out-bound to a two / four configuration depending on traffic volume.

The bishop of Lincoln, Hugh of Wells, was one of the signatories to the Magna Carta and for hundreds of years the Cathedral held one of the four remaining copies of the original, now securely displayed in Lincoln Castle.

The Lincoln County School District consists of four K-12 schools.

Henri Devereaux, who takes the fall for importing the Lincoln to New York, is based on Jacques Angelvin, a television actor arrested and sentenced to three to six years in a federal penetentiary for his role, serving about four before repatriating to France and turning to real estate.

It has four high schools: Marysville High, Lindhurst High School, Marysville Charter Academy for the Arts, and Abraham Lincoln Home School.

Bunker Hill is the home of one of four statues of Abraham Lincoln sculpted by William Grandville Hastings.

Ypsilanti Township is served by four public school districts: Ypsilanti Public Schools, Lincoln Consolidated Schools, Willow Run Community Schools, and Van Buren Public Schools.

In 1931, a station located on the Upper 96 Ranch, four miles east of Fort McPherson in Lincoln County, was donated to the city.

In 1905, the Lincoln section of Middlesex Borough organized a volunteer fire company and that set the organization of four other fire companies in the Borough.

Lincoln Park has a Mayor and seven Council members, ( three at-large and four from wards ).

The Totowa Fire Department ( TBFD ) is an entirely volunteer fire department and was established in April, 1908 The TBFD consists of four " companies ," which include ; Volunteer Fire Company # 1 ( 1908 ), Lincoln Fire Company ( 1908 ), Riverview Fire Company # 3 ( 1925 ), and Fire Rescue Company # 4 ( 1955 ).

Ontario is connected by four major highways, U. S. Route 30 ( the Lincoln Highway ), which connects Mansfield and Interstate 71 to the east with Bucyrus to the west, State Route 309, which connects Mansfield to the east with Galion to the west, State Route 314, which connects Shelby to the north with Chesterville to the south, and State Route 430 ( Park Avenue West ) connecting Ontario to downtown Mansfield.

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.