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“In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he is a representative of the people. In 1836, Lincoln wrote a protest to extreme action legislature had taken on the slavery issue. His leadership was not brilliant, they did no fighting and were all discharged. She also insisted that Abraham be put in school thus he began attending Andrew Crawford’s School at the age of fifteen. It was the crowning act of his career. A little over a year later Thomas Lincoln journeyed to Kentucky and returned with a new wife. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people as well as three hundred other men coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?”

During these presidential campaigns, Lincoln was active in trying to convert the active men in the party to his own ideas of sound policy. ” Lincoln expected the nomination and prepared himself for it. They spent a year in this cabin in the woods. He remained part of the state legislature, but also followed his other passion of law. He knew that slavery must die, or become national. Some of the southern leaders thought that there would be no war that the north was divided and the northern people would not fight. He had hoped that time would have healed the animosity that threatened the Union and the principles of free government but it had not. A few years later the Lincolns migrated to Indiana.