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

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.

Lincoln responded by brief letter thanking Grace for the suggestion.

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.

Lincoln led the new Republican Party in developing their platform calling slavery a national evil, and insisting Congress end slavery expansion into the territories.

* April 15 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln issues a Proclamation calling for 75, 000 men to confront in the South, " combinations too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary way ".

The chronicles tell of how Gaveston gave mocking nicknames to other earls, calling Lincoln ' burst-belly ', Pembroke ' Joseph the Jew ', Lancaster ' the fiddler ' and Warwick ' the black dog of Arden ' ( from the forest of Arden in Warwickshire ).

In the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when John Wesley, a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charles and the rest of Wesley's ' Holy Club ', whom the rest of the university took to calling ' Bible-moths '.

A new bank, calling itself Tower Bank, announced it would open in Lincoln Tower, occupying the lobby and some office space.

United States president Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for the states to raise 75, 000 volunteers for ninety days to suppress the South ; in response to the proclamation, an additional four states seceded and joined the Confederacy, which also started raising troops.

As for the Puerto Rican island, the Young Lords began organizing conferences and marches calling for Puerto Rican independence, which was always related back to their natural operating bases and the gentrification that they were fighting within it, in the streets of Lincoln Park, Chicago, Manhattan and other cities.

Many states that had formerly observed Lincoln's birthday have created a joint holiday to honor both Lincoln and George Washington, sometimes calling it " Presidents Day ".

In Washington, DC, the Washington Nationals have made fun of them, calling them the " un-Racing Sausages " during Brewers visits to the nation's capital in the Presidents Race, featuring runners dressed in oversized costumes representing the four Presidents on Mount Rushmore — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt — which began when Ted Lerner took over ownership of the team in 2006 ; the live action version replacing a computerized animation version.

Abraham Lincoln was an admirer of the tune, calling it " that buzzing song.