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 ".

Throughout the 1850s, Lincoln doubted the prospects of civil war, and his supporters rejected claims that his election would incite secession.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

Abraham Lincoln also rejected the compact theory saying the Constitution was a binding contract among the states and no contract can be changed unilaterally by one party.

In 1721, Henry Edmunds was elected as a Fellow by 9 votes to 3 ; his election was rejected by Provost George Carter, and on appeal, by the Visitor, Edmund Gibson, then Bishop of Lincoln.

The GNR suffered a setback in 1848 when this deviation was rejected, but arrangements were soon made to use the MS & LR's authorized line from Sykes Junction ( on the loop line north of Lincoln ) to Retford and then via their own main line, and contracts for both of these lines were quickly let.

The American Nazi Party of George Lincoln Rockwell, for example, rejected Yockey on the basis of his anti-American attitude, as well as his willingness to work with anti-Zionist Communist governments and movements, as the ANP adhered solely to the ideals of absolute anti-Bolshevist National Socialism, as had been advocated by Hitler.

He won letters in athletics ( Lincoln University ) and cross country ( Storer College and Lincoln University ), swimming ( Howard University ), and football ( soccer ) ( Lincoln University ); entered to compete in the Half-Mile Race and One-Mile run at the British Empire Games to represent Nigeria, but was rejected by the A. A. A.

Lincoln rejected any negotiations with the Confederate agents because he did not consider the Confederacy a legitimate nation and making any treaty with it would be tantamount to recognition of it as a sovereign government.

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

The next year, this route was considered but rejected for the Lincoln Highway, after which the Midland Trail Association laid out and marked its own transcontinental highway, eventually connecting Newport News, Virginia with Los Angeles, California.

Even after the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860, Crittenden rejected the idea that secession was inevitable and continued to work for the preservation of the Union.

One of these, " Fiddler " Fynes, regularly attended church services and was an essentially conventional Christian for that period, whilst the second, John Worsdale of Lincoln, was similarly devout but was unconventional in that he rejected the need for a professional clergy.

Although a similar appeal by Frederick Douglass had already been rejected, Lincoln was impressed by Delany and described him as " a most extraordinary and intelligent man.

" That President Lincoln considered, and then rejected, the possibility of arresting Taney is briefly mentioned in The Civil War produced by Ken Burns and aired on Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) Public television stations.

On May 11, Lincoln voters rejected the proposed measure by a 4 – 1 margin.

Surveyor Colonel William Light, who had two months to complete his tasks, rejected locations for the new settlement such as Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln and Encounter Bay.

At the start of the Civil War, President Lincoln attempted to have the Virginia portion re-annexed over security concerns, but was rejected by the Senate.

Lincoln made known his objections, and the Compromise was rejected by the committee on December 22 by a vote of 7-6.

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

The legend about Merovech's conception was adapted in 1982 by authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh in their book Holy Blood Holy Grail, as the seed of a new idea.

This idea was eventually expanded into the concept of a multiverse, including such worlds as Earth-Three, which was an " opposite " world where heroes were villains and historical events happened in reverse of how they occurred in real life ( e. g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named Abraham Lincoln ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the " real world " and used to explain how real-life DC staffers ( such as Julius Schwartz ) could occasionally appear in comics stories, and so forth.

To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches.

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 idea was summarily dismissed by Mexican President Benito Juarez, but in 1862 Lincoln did manage to establish a short-lived colony of ex-slaves on Île à Vache off the coast of Haiti.

Most scholars believe that Lincoln abandoned the idea by 1863, following the use of black troops.

Lincoln described Sumner as " my idea of a bishop ", and consulted him as an embodiment of the conscience of the American people.

In March 2009 AgResearch announced that it planned to merge with Lincoln University, an idea that was later scaled back to " sharing of knowledge ".

For his part, Everett was deeply impressed by the concise speech and wrote to Lincoln noting " I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.

After the election of Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, the secession debate dominated the pages of the Whig, with Brownlow relentlessly attacking the idea of secession and its supporters.

The Dixie Highway, an idea of Carl G. Fisher of the Lincoln Highway Association, was organized in early December 1914 in Chattanooga.

Thaddeus Lowe made noteworthy contributions to the Union war effort using a fleet of balloons he created In June 1861 Professor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe left his work in the private sector and offered his services as an aeronaut to President Lincoln, who took some interest in the idea of an air war.

The idea that this was because Abraham Lincoln wore a bespoke black Brooks frock coat when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth is a myth.

The July 1, 1862, Pacific Railroad Act signed by President Lincoln established government funding for the construction of a railroad from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean with the express idea of opening a main line mail route across the western frontier.

On March 30, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation expressing the idea " that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins ", and designated the day of April 30, 1863 as a day of " national humiliation, fasting and prayer " in the hope that God would respond by restoring " our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace ".

The idea for the episode was pitched by Matt Selman, and the staff took inspiration for the episode from the Simpsons staff's own experience with web cartoons, such as Queer Duck and Hard Drinkin ' Lincoln.

* Assemblage of spirits: idea and image in New Ireland by Louise Lincoln, Minneapolis Institute of Arts ( 1987 ) ISBN 0-8076-1187-5

" In Washington, Lincoln planted a seed in his mind, saying he was impressed to hear that Johnson was giving consideration to raising a Negro military force.

Booth also railed against Lincoln in conversations with his sister Asia, saying, " That man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was " my ideal of a great man.

According to Goodspeed's History of Lincoln County, Missouri ( 1888 ), Lincoln County was named by Major Christopher Clark, the first permanent white settler, when he addressed the Territorial Legislature saying, " I was born, sir, in Link-Horn County, N. C., I lived for many years in Link-Horn County in old Kain-tuck.

He once responded to the Taco Liberty Bell incident by saying that the federal government was also " selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Co. and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial.

Lincoln can move his lips to form words, can make very dramatic movements, and can portray emotions to match the words he's saying.

Douglas tried to convince, especially the Democrats, that Lincoln was an abolitionist for saying that the American Declaration of Independence applied to blacks as well as whites.

At this debate Lincoln went further than before in denying the charge that he was an abolitionist, saying that:

* October 28 – In a press conference President Bush says the following about the May 1 " Mission Accomplished " banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln: " The ' Mission Accomplished ' sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished.

On March 19, 1986, Hart celebrated her victory of the previous day, saying " I'm going to revive the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and General Patton.

His sister's husband is quoted as saying he had received a letter from George in 1865 and that he stated Lincoln had pardoned him.

Hyams further alleged that Blackburn had filled a valise with fine shirts and instructed him to deliver it to President Abraham Lincoln at the White House, saying they were from an anonymous admirer.

Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying Thank God for Michigan!

) Around this time Lincoln Steffens wrote a piece saying that Yiddish theater in New York had eclipsed English-language theater in quality.

At this time Leyland had by far the best bus advertising in the trade-press, only Albion Motors coming anywhere near, whilst Albion sold on low first cost and fuel economy, whilst saying that they were " As Sure As The Sunrise " in reliability, Leyland's advertising had the " Zoo " names to stick individual models in customers ' minds and in particular they used a photograph of the original TD1 prototype TD9522, passing underneath the 15 ft mediaeval Stonebow in Lincoln with clearance to spare, which they accompanied with the slogan, " Bury your trams: mark their passing with Titans.