Lincoln encountered an unprecedented political and military crisis, and he responded as commander-in-chief, using unprecedented powers.

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.

The 1994 impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter served as a " wake-up call ", and astronomers responded by starting programs such as Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research ( LINEAR ), Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking ( NEAT ), Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search ( LONEOS ) and several others which have drastically increased the rate of asteroid discovery.

" When President Abraham Lincoln requested that Ohio raise ten regiments at the outbreak of the Civil War, the state responded by raising a total of 23 volunteer infantry regiments for three months of service.

Lincoln responded by publicly revoking the proclamation and relieving Frémont of command on November 2, 1861, simultaneous to a War Department report detailing Frémont's iniquities as a major general.

The threat to Washington was serious, and Lincoln eventually responded by declaring martial law in Maryland.

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.

Douglas put Lincoln on the defensive by accusing him of being a Black Republican abolitionist, but Lincoln responded by asking Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision.

When Solomon Lincoln suggested that Abe might have forebears in Hingham, Abe responded with dry Lincoln wit that if the town's name were ' Hang '- em ' then he probably did have relatives there.

" Lincoln responded that " the next Dred Scott decision " could allow slavery to spread into free states.

Lincoln City's board responded by committing £ 1, 100, 000 to their ground's renovation in the year that immediately followed the fire at Valley Parade, and over the following decade made improvements that eventually totalled £ 3, 000, 000.

In true Lincoln Electric spirit, they responded by voluntarily postponing 614 weeks of vacation in order to meet customer demand for product.

He further retorted that " Harry Jaffa and his followers at the Claremont Institute and elsewhere " had responded to the publication of The Real Lincoln by " screeching and carrying on like a colony of baboons that has just spotted a panther ".

" After Chief Justice Roger B. Taney attacked the president for this policy, Lincoln responded in a Special Session to Congress on July 4, 1861 that an insurrection " in nearly one-third of the States had subverted the whole of the laws.

Lincoln celebrated Season Ten of Saltdogs baseball in 2010, and the team responded with its fourth berth in the playoffs over the past five seasons.

After hearing their petition, Lincoln responded as follows:

Lincoln, however, responded that the Dred Scott decision had closed the door on Douglas's preferred option and left the Union with only two remaining outcomes: the United States would inevitably become either all slave, or all free.

The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun, and defended in the end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

Thanks to Spoken Arts Records, history buffs may hear Lincoln's `` most memorable speeches and letters '' in a two-disc set, interpreted by Lincoln authority and lecturer Roy P. Basler.

Lincoln prevented British recognition of the Confederacy by skillfully handling the Trent affair in late 1861.

Politically, Lincoln fought back with patronage, by pitting his opponents against each other, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory.

Six days after the surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, however, Lincoln was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.

At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

Lincoln emphasized his opposition to Polk by drafting and introducing his Spot Resolutions.

Taylor won and Lincoln hoped to be appointed Commissioner of the General Land Office, but that lucrative patronage job went to an Illinois rival, Justin Butterfield, considered by the administration to be a highly skilled lawyer, but in Lincoln's view, an " old fossil ".

Lincoln in his late 30s – photo taken by one of Lincoln's law students around 1846

Lincoln successfully argued that the railroad company was not bound by its original charter in existence at the time of Barret's pledge ; the charter was amended in the public interest to provide a newer, superior, and less expensive route, and the corporation retained the right to demand Barret's payment.

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's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.

En route to his inauguration by train, Lincoln addressed crowds and legislatures across the North.

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

Lincoln resolved the issue by releasing the two men and war was successfully averted with Britain.

After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln clearly understood that his military decisions would be more effectively carried out by conveying his orders through his War Secretary or his general-in-chief on to his generals, who resented his civilian interference with their own plans.

Lincoln understood that the Federal government's power to end slavery was limited by the Constitution, which before 1865, committed the issue to individual states.

Lincoln believed that curtailing slavery in these ways would economically expunge it, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, under the constitution.

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.

The Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave young Abraham Lincoln his brief military service.

Lincoln also gave a brief speech in Danville in 1858 while campaigning for U. S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas ; Lincoln gave the speech in his stocking feet while standing on the balcony at the home of Dr. William Fithian, a prominent local physician.

President-Elect Abraham Lincoln made a brief appearance in the city as his inaugural train traveled from Cincinnati to Columbus on Wednesday morning, February 13, 1861.

The Lincoln Brickyard enjoyed a brief period of prosperity under the leadership of Lorenzo Mumford.

* February 18 – The first Washington, D. C. – New York City telecast through AT & T coaxial cable, in which General Dwight Eisenhower placed a wreath at the base of the statue in the Lincoln Memorial and others made brief speeches, is termed a success by engineers and viewers, although Time magazine calls it " as blurred as an early Chaplin movie.

After a relatively brief siege Lincoln was forced to surrender more than 5, 000 men to Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton on May 12, 1780.

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However, before Lincoln could arrive, over Christmas 1778, Howe was forced to abandon Savannah, Georgia, on December 29 after a brief battle with British forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell.

He sat as a Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1826 to 1855 ( with one brief break ).

Wistar said that he and Baker had a brief discussion just prior to his being killed, and Baker said, “ The officer who dies with his men will never be harshly judged .” President Lincoln was at General George McClellan's headquarters that evening when he got the news of Baker ’ s death.

He received the first part of his education in the country and then spent a brief period at Lincoln College, Oxford, before entering the Inner Temple in June 1550.

A couple of brief, short-lived spells in Division Three followed-first with Lincoln City, arriving at Sincil Bank in January 2001.

His son Adam played in midfield for Grimsby Town and Lincoln City, and his other son Simon also had a brief stint with Grimsby.

Following a brief sojourn to appear a further time for Altrincham in the 2 – 0 home victory over Welling United on 19 December 1992, he managed to displace Bowling from the Lincoln side over the Christmas fixtures and a series of impressive displays saw him rewarded with a new two-year contract in March 1993.

After his commanding officer Hiram Lincoln was killed, Ramsay took command of the offensive, but only for a very brief time ; he was killed by machine-gun fire while charging a United States trench only minutes after Lincoln's death.

After a brief interview with President Abraham Lincoln behind Union lines at City Point, Virginia, he was sent to Fort Delaware as a prisoner of war.

After his assassination, Barringer fell under suspicion due to his brief meeting with Lincoln less than two weeks prior.