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.

Modern presidential debates trace their roots to the Lincoln – Douglas Debates, though the format today is remarkably different from the original.

" Although some sources cite it as the fourth-most familiar statue in the United States, behind the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty, Manship was not particularly fond or proud of it.

President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them.

The Lincoln School built its curriculum around “ units of work ” that reorganized traditional subject matter into forms embracing the development of children and the changing needs of adult life.

Lawrence teaching school children at the Abraham Lincoln School.

" Father ," as the children called him, was an ardent Unionist, a prominent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Union effort during the American Civil War.

When Lincoln finally issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, Tubman considered it an important step toward the goal of liberating all black men, women, and children from slavery.

Stanly resigned almost a year later when he angered Lincoln by closing two schools for black children in New Bern.

Their American teacher told them about Abraham Lincoln and the highway to be built in his honor, and they took up a collection and sent it to the LHA with the note, " Fourteen pennies from Anvik Esquimaux children for the Lincoln Highway.

Marian and the children joined him on the road for a short time, but the couple had to admit defeat when they found themselves in Lincoln, Illinois in 1923 with two small children and no funds.

Teena was born Teena Renae Brandon in Lincoln, Nebraska, the younger of two children to Patrick and JoAnn Brandon.

Most children in Alexandria attend school at Alexandria Public Schools-ISD 206, which consists of six kindergarten-6th grade elementary schools ( Lincoln, Voyager, Woodland, Carlos, Miltona, Garfield ), one 7th-9th grade junior high school ( Discovery Middle School ), and one 10th-12th grade senior high school ( Jefferson High School ).

He was twice married and several of his children settled north of St. Louis in the river country that became the town of Whiteside in Lincoln County, Missouri.

The Huntsville Lincoln School was built on Randolph Street and provided education for African-American children from first to eighth grade.

In 1756 ( when Henry Pelham had died without male issue and it was apparent that the Duke was to have no children of his own ) the Duke was also made Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the County of Stafford, with remainder to his nephew Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

The name " Lincoln City " was chosen from contest entries submitted by local school children.

According to a note added by Deborah Wray on his Rockabilly Hall of Fame page, Link Wray had married four times and was survived by nine children: Fred Lincoln Wray III, Link Elvis Wray, Shayne Wray, Elizabeth ( Beth ) Wray Webb, Mona Kay Wray Tidwell, Belinda Wray Muth, Rhonda Wray Sayen, and Charlotte Wray Glass.

Cameo also owned the Lincoln Records and Romeo Records labels, as well as a subsidiary for making records for children, Cameo-Kid.

The concept of a reading series for children was inspired by Twila Liggett, Ph. D., of Lincoln, Nebraska of the Great Plains National Instructional Television Library at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln ; Paul Schupbach, director of the Great Plains National Instructional Television LIbrary ; and Tony Buttino, of WNED-TV Buffalo, New York.

There are no secondary schools in the village and children instead travel to Lincoln, Grantham or Sleaford.

Starkweather was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, the third of seven children to Guy and Helen

At Lincoln he was allowed to spend time with down syndrome children, and was taken out of solitary and placed back on the prison wings after getting along well with the children, but was soon put back into isolation after returning from 30 minute's exercise 30 minutes late.