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.

Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.

Much as he abhorred slavery, Lincoln was always willing to concede to each `` slave state '' the right to decide independently whether to continue or end it.

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.

What Lincoln could not concede was that the states rather than the people were sovereign in the Union.

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.

Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.

Lincoln was sure that he would not be re-elected.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

Outside the Lincoln was parked.

Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

As the South was in a state of insurrection, Lincoln exercised his authority to suspend habeas corpus in that situation, arresting and detaining thousands of suspected secessionists without their trials.

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

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Lincoln later noted that this move was " partly on account of slavery " but mainly due to land title difficulties.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

It was then that, as an ambitious 22-year-old, Lincoln decided to seek a better life and struck out on his own.

In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.

While preparing for the nuptials and feeling anxiety again, Lincoln, when asked where he was going, replied, " To hell, I suppose.

Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

At the close of the war, Lincoln held a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness.

Lincoln became very close to his stepmother, and referred to her as " Mother ".

Although there is no indication that the two were close, Adams met Abraham Lincoln during the latter's sole term as a member of the House of Representatives, from 1847 until Adams ' death.

Eleanor Roosevelt's biographer and very close personal friend Joseph Lash wrote " The anti-Roosevelt underground campaign in 1940 was venomous, and ( Democratic National Chairman ) Flynn accused the Republicans of conducting the ' most vicious, most shameful campaign since the time of Lincoln.

Baker, a close friend of Abraham Lincoln, is killed in the fighting.

A maternal great-grandfather, Jesse W. Fell, had been a close friend and campaign manager for Abraham Lincoln ; Stevenson often referred to Fell as his favorite ancestor.

Taylor and Grindal Islands are also close to the Lincoln National Park but are not a part of the Reserve.

Being close to both Omaha and Lincoln has made it an excellent location for more wealthy urbanites to build homes in the country.

It was once claimed that Jesus had stolen the stags from Lincoln, but the counter-argument ( from an antiquarian with close Lincoln connections ) was that the origins of each were distinct.

At Lincoln, for example, he identified three phases of urban development, beginning with a British settlement at the top of the hill ( close to which " much Romaine mony is found "), the Saxon and medieval town further south, and a more recent riverside development at Wigford.

He was, however, able to borrow money against future expectations of ecclesiastical preferment as a result of his close friendship with William Wake, then bishop of Lincoln .” Between the summer of 1711 and the Spring of 1712, Wotton appears to have experienced a Mid-life crisis, and he scandalized the neighbourhood on many occasions by being found drunk in public, or else was known to have spent prolonged periods in local brothels.

During his military service Knox also established a close friendship with fellow Massachusetts native Benjamin Lincoln.

" After he left the cabinet, Blair still campaigned for Lincoln's re-election and Lincoln and the Blair family retained close ties.

As of early 2007, according to the Tzadik website, " Together for close to fifteen years, John Zorn's Masada Quartet is officially breaking up and will be performing two of their last live concerts ever at Lincoln Center March 9th and 10th on a double bill with Cecil Taylor's New AHA 3.

The M180 motorway is a short but major () motorway in England from junction 5 on the M18 motorway in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster to a point close to Humberside Airport some from the ports of Immingham and Grimsby and the east coast and provides access for major routes to Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Hull ( via the Humber Bridge ), Immingham, Lincoln, Scunthorpe and also provides major access for Humberside Airport and the Killingholme Oil Refineries.

In Roman times, due to the close proximity of the Fosse Way and other important Roman roads, military centres were set up at Leicester and Lincoln ; and intermediate camps were also established, for example, Six Hills on the Fosse Way.

Harlan was a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln and his family.

Their friendship was close enough that, when Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, Randolph accompanied Lincoln's funeral procession in a train to Springfield, Illinois.

He was one of the commissioners appointed to build the state capitol 1874 ; in 1867 appointed clerk of Westchester County, but resigned after a short service ; made immigration commissioner by New York Legislature in 1870, but declined to serve ; member of boundary commission of the state of New York in 1875 ; had also been commissioner of quarantine and president of Court of Claims of New York City and commissioner of taxes and assessments for the city and county of New York ; defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the Liberal Republican-Democratic ticket in 1872 ; candidate for U. S. Senator from New York in 1881, but withdrew after the 41st ballot ; declined nomination as a senator in 1885 ; but elected to the U. S. Senate in 1899, and re-elected in 1905, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 4, 1911 ; stumped the state of New York for John C. Frémont in 1856 and for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ; delegate-at-large to Republican National conventions 1888-1904 and delegate to all following conventions, including 1928, being elected the day before he died ; made the nomination speeches for Harrison in 1892, Governor Morton in 1896, and Fairbanks in 1904 ; at the convention in 1888 received ninety-nine votes for the presidential nomination, and in 1892 declined an appointment as Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet ; Adjutant of the 18th Regiment, New York National Guard, which served in the American Civil War, and later Colonel and Judge Advocate of the 5th Division, on the staff of Major General James W. Husted of the New York Guard, trustee of Peekskill Military Academy ; president of New York State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Pilgrims Society from 1918 until his death, of the St. Nicholas Society, and of the Union League for seven years ( member since 1868 and elected honorary life member at the close of his presidency ); an officer of the French Légion d ' honneur ; vice president of New York Chamber of Commerce 1904-08 ( member since 1885 ).

As Lincoln Road, it goes close to Leasingham meeting the B1209.

Jefferson's choice of Lincoln was supported by his close advisor and eventual Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin, who described Lincoln as " a good lawyer, a fine scholar, a man of great discretion and sound judgment " and a " sound a decided Republican ".

Lincoln had nominated his close friend James Harlan to replace Usher.