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.

Similarly, when a reporter once questioned Lincoln in cryptic fashion, Lincoln refused to make any further statement.

Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states:

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Frederick Douglass once observed of Lincoln: " In his company, I was never reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color ".

He once suggested that God saw fit to have Lincoln assassinated so that he could become president.

After Booth shot him once in the back of the head, Lincoln died the next morning.

The band ’ s renaissance culminated with a change in name ; from Hybrid Theory, the band once again changed its name, this time to Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica ’ s Lincoln Park.

This version was screened publicly numerous times, including at the University of Washington in 1996 ; at least two presentations by American Cinematheque ; once by the American Museum of the Moving Image ; at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas ; by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, in New York City ; and once at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY.

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.

The octagonal exterior form appears in a carving from about 1260 in Lincoln Cathedral that shows an angel apparently playing two instruments at once ( see Gardner ).

Will Rogers Park, Lincoln Park, Trosper Park, and Woodson Park were once connected by the Grand Boulevard loop, some sections of which no longer exist.

The new museum will incorporate the facade of the old South Park Presbyterian Church, where Abraham Lincoln once spoke.

While Toledo has remained the industrial hub of Lincoln County, the city has never regained the position it once had.

It once was part of a failed effort to create a new state of Lincoln out of parts of western Montana, Idaho's northern panhandle and eastern Washington.

* once followed Ecorse Road into Lincoln Park, then ran concurrently with U. S. Route 25 to Downtown Detroit.

Apple growing was once a major agricultural industry in Lincoln, but has recently declined due to changing climate conditions and high costs of upkeep.

The Lincoln School Museum was once a one-room schoolhouse.

The town was also once the home of Lincoln Park, ( 1894-1987 ) a former amusement park which dated from the late 19th century as a park-stop along the trolley line ( and US Route 6 ) from Fall River to New Bedford just east of the junction of Lake Noquochoke and the Westport River.

Livermore and its neighbor to the west, Lincoln, occupy a large area of uninhabited woodland once known as the " Pemigewasset Wilderness " ( a portion of which is preserved in the present-day WMNF Pemigewasset Wilderness in Lincoln ).

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.