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 ''.

Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.

" In response to an inquiry about his presidential intentions, Lincoln said, " The taste is in my mouth a little.

Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

Lincoln said:

" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."

Lincoln's sister-in-law, sitting with him in the same presidential box where he would later be slain, turned to him and said, " Mr. Lincoln, he looks as if he meant that for you.

After destroying the toilet, Moon then allegedly drove a Cadillac ( Moon said a Lincoln Continental ) into the hotel swimming pool.

American civil religion, for example, might be said to have its own set of sacred " things ": the Flag of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.

Grant said of Lincoln, " He was incontestably the greatest man I have ever known.

Lincoln Memorial where Abraham Lincoln is said to have selected Council Bluffs as the eastern terminus after visiting this site in 1859 under the employ of Thomas C. Durant.

" God won't let master Lincoln beat the South till he does the right thing ," she said.

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.

Lincoln flatly denied recognition of the Confederacy, and said that the slaves covered by his Emancipation Proclamation would not be re-enslaved.

Though not all manuscript versions of the Gettysburg Address contain the words " under God ", all the reporters ' transcripts of the speech as delivered do, as perhaps Lincoln may have deviated from his prepared text and inserted the phrase when he said " that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom.

However, Nunberg said that to Lincoln and his contemporaries, " under God " meant " God willing " and they would have found its use in the Pledge of Allegiance grammatically incorrect.

Time said, " An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together with the mortar of plot.

" 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.

Historian David Potter ( 1976 ) said the emotional effect of Brown's raid was greater than the philosophical effect of the Lincoln – Douglas debates, and that his raid revealed a deep division between North and South.

When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave speeches in Greenville in 1858 during a campaign for the United States Senate, Douglas said: " Ladies and gentlemen it gives me great and supreme gratification and pleasure to see this vast concourse of people assembled to hear me upon this my first visit to Old Bond.

It has been said that Lincoln spent the night in Hainesville a few times.

The one representing Illinois was provided with a wreath of leaves and flowers, with which it is presumed she meant to crown or encircle the man they delighted to honor, but Mr. Lincoln very quietly said: ' Wear it yourself, dear, they become you better than me.

The ideology is said to be heavily influenced by Sun's experiences in the United States and contains elements of the American progressive movement and the thought championed by Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln successfully led his country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union while ending slavery, and promoting economic and financial modernization.

Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

In 1862, Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee, where he was effective in fighting and ending the rebellion ; he implemented Reconstruction policies in the state and transitioned for a time to a pro-emancipation policy.

* 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.

* December 1 – In his State of the Union Address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as he ordered ten weeks earlier in his Emancipation Proclamation.

* traverses of Alcona County from its Southern end in Oscoda past Wurtsmith Air Force Base, through the town of Mikado, across M-72, through the town of Lincoln, and ending at its Northern point just south of the Alpena County Line.

The new model offered a sportier, high performance, somewhat smaller and lower-priced alternative to the other personal luxury cars then on the market such as Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera, Lincoln Continental Mark III and Oldsmobile Toronado, The 1969 Grand Prix production ending up at over 112, 000 units, far higher than the 32, 000 1968 Grand Prix built from the full-sized Pontiac body.

Lincoln Geraghty praises the ending to the story arc and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a series, and believes this is indicative of how the series manipulates the Star Trek ethos, identifying a theme of ambiguity as part of its continuing narrative.

It was first discovered in 1922 in Brazil, and named by an Irishman Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. An entomologist at New York's Museum of Natural History thought that, because there was not a Latin name or Brazilian name associated with this weevil, it was probably named Zyzzyva as a practical joke to place it in a prominent ending position in many guides and manuals.

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

A standoff at the Springfield Armory on January 25 resulted in the death of several rebels, and Lincoln broke the main rebel force on February 4 in Petersham, ending large-scale resistance.

Finally, rather than ending US 50 at Wadsworth, where the Lincoln and Victory Highways merged, it was sent over the Lincoln Highway's Pioneer Branch, past the south side of Lake Tahoe, to Sacramento, California.

In County won the Third Division North, gaining 60 points and 23 wins, towards the ending of this season Stockport had a ten game unbeaten run that included seven victories, prior to a last day title decider against Lincoln City in which more than 27, 000 fans watched.

Booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865 ( with the run ending just a few months before Booth's brother John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln ), and would later revive the role at his own Booth's Theatre ( which was managed for a time by his brother Junius Brutus Booth, Jr .).

His expansion into music festivals was ultimately disastrous, with the Great Western Bardney Pop Festival in Lincoln ending up losing ₤ 200, 000.

SR 118 used to extend past I-210 on Foothill Boulevard through Sunland, Tujunga, La Crescenta and La Cañada, then across the Arroyo Seco into Pasadena, CA, where SR 118 ran on Lincoln Avenue and Fair Oaks Avenue, ending at Colorado Blvd ( Alternate US 66 ).

In what historian Allen Guelzo calls " one of the murkiest episodes in Lincoln ’ s life ", Lincoln called off his engagement to Mary Todd at the same time that the legislative program he had supported for years collapsed, his best friend Joshua Speed left Springfield, and John Stuart, Lincoln ’ s law partner, proposed ending their law practice.

He was bidden by Bishop Alexander of Lincoln to write a history of England from the earliest period and bringing it to modern times, ending it upon the accession of Henry II in 1154.

" Pleasonton, always more of a bureaucrat than an ideologue or strong leader, only wanted to defeat the South's military capabilities so that they could not threaten the rest of the states, but was not convinced that " crushing " the rebels, ending slavery, or reelecting Lincoln was worth the cost.

One theory about the Lincoln Assassination holds that the Dahlgren Papers ' discovery instigated the chain of events ending in John Wilkes Booth's murder of Abraham Lincoln the next year.