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Abraham Linkoln
by Stefanos Nikolaidis b2/g
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

• Abraham Lincoln( 1809-1865) served as the 16th
  President of the United States from March 1861
  until his assassination in April 1865. He
  successfully led his country through its greatest
  internal crisis, the American Civil War,
  preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before
  his election in 1860 as the first Republican
  president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an
  Illinois State legislator and a member of the
  United States House of Representatives. His
  tenure in office was occupied primarily with the
  defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of
  America in the American Civil War. After his
  election, he introduced measures that resulted in
  the abolition of slavery, issuing his
  Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting
  the passage of the Thirtieth Amendment to the
  Constitution. Six days after the large- scale
  surrender of Confederate forces under General
  Robert E. Lee, Lincoln became the first American
  president to be assassinated.

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

• The Emancipation Proclamation, announced on
  September 22, 1862 and put into effect on January
  1, 1863, freed slaves in territories not already
  under Union control. As Union armies advanced
  south, more slaves were liberated until all of
  them in Confederate territory( over 3 million)
  were freed. A few days after the Emancipation was
  announced, thirteen Republican governors met at
  the Wars Governors Conference they supported
  the presidents Proclamation, but suggested the
  removal of General George B. McClellan as
  commander of the Unions Army of Potomac. For
  some time, Lincoln continued earlier plans to set
  up colonies for the newly freed slaves. He
  commanded favorably on colonization in the
  Emancipation Proclamation, but the attempts at
  such a massive undertaking failed. As Frederick
  Douglass observed Lincoln is the first great
  man that I talked with in the United States
  freely who in no single instance reminds me of
  the difference between himself and myself, of the
  difference of colour.

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• I would save the Union. I would save it the
  shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner
  the national authority can be restored the
  sooner the Union will be as it was. My paramount
  object in this struggle is to save the Union, and
  is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I
  could save the Union without freeing any slave I
  would do it, and if I could save it by freeing
  all the slaves I would do it and if I could save
  it by freeing some and let others alone I would
  also do that. What I do about slavery, and the
  colored race, I do, because I believe it helps to
  save the Union and what I forbear, I forbear,
  because I believe it would not help to save the
  Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe
  what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do
  more whenever I believe that doing more will help
  the cause. I shall try to correct errors when
  shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views
  so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I
  have here stated my purpose according to my view
  of official duty and I intend no modification of
  my oft- expressed personal wish that all men
  everywhere could be free.