Lincoln also agreed with the customary obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from work done outside the home until age 21.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.

Taverne's Lincoln by-election campaign was also helped to a lesser degree by problems with the Conservative candidate, Monday Club chairman Jonathan Guinness.

Before presenting " The Emancipation Proclamation " to his Cabinet, Lincoln read to them the latest episode, " Outrage in Utiky ", also known as High-Handed Outrage at Utica.

These issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

He painted about 260 oils during the last 20 years of his life to relax, mostly landscapes but also portraits of subjects such as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln.

But Douglass also asked, " Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word?

" 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 ...."

The False Claims Act (, also called the " Lincoln Law ") is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies ( typically federal contractors ) who defraud governmental programs.

He also spent some of his childhood years in Washington, D. C., and Lincoln, Nebraska.

He was also a Confederate sympathizer vehement in his denunciation of the Lincoln Administration and outraged by the South's defeat in the American Civil War.

Booth also railed against Lincoln in conversations with his sister Asia, saying, " That man's appearance, his pedigree, his coarse low jokes and anecdotes, his vulgar similes, and his policy are a disgrace to the seat he holds.

Such was his frustration during this period of rejection that he also applied to the Methodists, Independents and Presbyterians, and applications were even mailed directly to the Bishops of Chester and Lincoln and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

Other historians have been more cautious in interpreting this material, noting that chroniclers also reported John's personal interest in the life of St Wulfstan of Worcester and his friendships with several senior clerics, most especially with Hugh of Lincoln, who was later declared a saint.

Abraham Lincoln also rejected the compact theory saying the Constitution was a binding contract among the states and no contract can be changed unilaterally by one party.

Lincoln may also refer to:

The town also includes the village of North Lincoln and the former village site of Stillwater.

It also had many Hispanic people from Lincoln, NM.

Alworth, Mix, Hadl, Joiner, Coryell, Gillman, Garrison, Fouts, White, Winslow, Faison, Benirschke, Lincoln, Washington, Humphries, Ladd and Wilkerson are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes from the San Diego area as well as those who played for San Diego-based professional and collegiate teams.

It also reported on a broad range of inventions including perpetual motion machines, an 1860 device for buoying vessels by Abraham Lincoln, and the universal joint which now finds place in nearly every automobile manufactured.

McVeigh was wearing a T-shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto: sic semper tyrannis (' Thus always to tyrants '), the state motto of Virginia and also the words shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

In the election of 1860, he voted for the fusion ticket in New York which was opposed to Abraham Lincoln, but he could not approve of President Buchanan's course in dealing with secession and eventually supported Lincoln.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

" Lincoln wholeheartedly supported Clay's economic programs.

Lincoln had supported a middle position to allow some black men to vote, especially army veterans.

Before and during the American Civil War, the new editors pushed an abolitionist agenda and strongly supported Abraham Lincoln, whom Medill helped secure the Presidency in 1860.

Thompson was placed on the National Committee, but gave up the on third party strategy in August and supported Abraham Lincoln so as not to risk a Democratic victory in Indiana.

When Lincoln won the nomination, Seward loyally supported him and made a long speaking tour of the West in the autumn of 1860.

The race put Breckinridge at odds with his uncle, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, who had supported Lincoln.

The royal administration under Henry I had been headed by Roger, the Bishop of Salisbury, supported by Roger's nephews, Alexander and Nigel, the Bishops of Lincoln and Ely respectively, and Roger's son, Roger le Poer, who was the Lord Chancellor.

The opposing Fellows, led by Edmunds, appealed to the first set of statutes, claiming the Crown as Visitor, making Gibson's decisions invalid ; Provost Carter, supported by Bishop Gibson, appealed to the second set, claiming the Bishop of Lincoln as Visitor.

In the presidential campaign of 1860 he supported John C. Breckinridge, and on December 22, soon after the election of Abraham Lincoln, sent a telegram to Georgia that asserted that " secession by the 4th of March next should be thundered forth from the ballot-box by the united voice of Georgia.

John Addams was a founding member of the Illinois Republican Party, served as an Illinois State Senator ( 1855 – 70 ), and supported his friend Abraham Lincoln in his candidacies, for senator ( 1854 ) and the presidency ( 1860 ).

The Murphy-Dolan faction were allied with Lincoln County Sheriff Brady, and supported by the Jesse Evans Gang.

On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or fought for the Confederate Army, with full restoration of property rights, subject only to taking an oath of allegiance.

Rhodes disliked the fact that Hanna had supported the successful Republican candidate, former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln.

The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions had been discarded as a source for birth data of outstanding athletes when its " yield strongly supported Gauquelin's hypothesis.

Abraham Lincoln won the nomination, and Chase supported him.

Early in his presidency, Abraham Lincoln tried repeatedly to arrange resettlement of the kind the ACS supported, but each arrangement failed ; see Abraham Lincoln on slavery.

President Abraham Lincoln was concerned with public opinion in the four border states that remained in the Union, as they had numerous slaveholders, as well as with northern Democrats who supported the war but were less supportive of abolition than many northern Republicans.