Abraham Lincoln

It had been a long time coming. Hopelessly divided by the issue of slavery, thirty-one million American citizens were in 1860

Called upon to elect the 16th President of the United States. The Democratic Party met At its National Party Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, in order to choose their nominee

for the presidency. Split over slavery, each faction, Northern Democrats on the one hand and Southern Democrats on the other, presented its own opposite proposal for the party platform. In

February 1860, Senator Jefferson Davis of Mississippi claimed that neither the Congress of the United States nor the territorial parliaments had the power to touch slavery. Southern Democrats

and few Northern pro-slavery Democrats support the Davis resolution: "the Government of a Territory (...) is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United

States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation."

The Southerners' desire was to pass a slave code, that is, a federal law protecting slavery in the territor

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) those who serve our cause as soldiers.

To meet this proposition, it has been argued that no more than three fourths of those States which have not attempted secession are necessary to validly ratify the amendment. Within several months, he had recruited Michael O'Laughlen, Samuel Arnold, Lewis Powell (Paine), John Surratt, David Herold, and George Atzerodt. This would be a way of swelling the dwindling ranks of Confederate armies. He was the man who fought the American Civil War through to a total triumph; he summoned all Americans, both North and South, both black and white; he was the president of the common people.

John Wilkes Booth: Hero or Murderer

On May 10, 1838, John Wilkes Booth was born on a farm in Bel Air, Maryland, near Baltimore. After the firing on Fort Sumpter, Lincoln used all the power of his office and did everything that was necessary to preserve the integrity of the nation, in disregard of political opponents or his political future. Some diehard Confederates were glad Abraham Lincoln was dead and viewed Booth as a hero. He spent several years working at the farm near Bel Air. to hear their president speak: "We meet this evening," Lincoln commenced, "not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. Booth refused, so the barn was set on fire. Glory Hallelujah!"

After being cornered in Appatomox, General Lee pain-fully

sent a note to Grant, requesting terms.

People have long wondered if there was a grand conspiracy behind the assassination of President Lincoln.

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