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CONSIDER THE ELEPHANT Podcasts I found this through google.  I liked it because it gives alot of infomation on the assasination of Abraham Lincoln and i plan on giving some information about that as well

The Abraham Lincoln Blog

This is a blog i found off of google.  I like it because it gives a lot of different information that is educational and interesting.  They also put alot of things in their own words instead of reading things off the internet and copying it.

Abolishing Slavery

"On Sept. 22, 1862, United States of America President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. This did not mean people of colour had sudenly become United States citizens that held equal rights to those held by Caucasians, Lincoln expressed his thoughts on it: “I think the authors of that notable instrument (Declaration of Independence) intended to include all men, but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say that all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity,” Abraham Lincoln - Seventh and Last Joint Debate, Douglas/Lincoln, at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858" However, his Proclamation was radical enough that it was the basis for the American Civil War. From this point onward, people of color entered into another form of slavery, economic."

I found this off of the MSN search engine on the Vernon College Database
http://www.danielnpaul.com/PresidentAbrahamLincoln-SlaveryAbolished.html

Problems At the Beginning of the Presidency

The Campaign of 1860 was a campaign that would decide what was going to happen to the United States. There were two main candidates, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Buchanan had retired from public service. The South had said if Abraham Lincoln won the Campaign of 1860 and became the next President they would withdraw from the Union.  Lincoln won the Presidency in 1860, having won two-thirds of the electoral votes, but he only had forty percent of the popular vote. He had quite a bit to deal with.  Within the first four months of him becoming President, seven states had already seceded from the Union, letting him know that he was not wanted as President. But he was not ready to give up.  His main interest at this point was keeping the Union together.  During this time he did not have any real concerns about abolishing slavery.

Beginning of the Civil War

Apart from the matter of slavery, the Civil War came about out of both the economic and political rivalry between an agricultural South and an industrial North and the issue of the right of states to secede from the Union.  The first real battle of the Civil War took place at a creek called, Bull Run, the Confederates surprised the Union. Under the leadership of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, the Confederate army soon sent the Union running back to Washington. With this defeat the Northerners realized that this was not just a rebellion that would be easily defeated, this was WAR.

Impression of Slavery

The first impression of slavery that Abe recieved was in his childhood in Kentucky. His father and mother belonged to a small company of western abolitionists, who at the beginning of the century boldly criticized the institution as wrongdoing. Thomas and Nancy Lincoln disliked it so much that they were willing to leave their Kentucky home and move to a free State. Abes first experience of the system was that it was something to escape from and he saw that it caused alot of pain and hardships.

Beginning of Politics

In 1834, Lincoln was elected to the state legislature, and  he served four successive terms, until 1841, and achieved greatness as a Whig. In 1836 he obtained his license as an attorney, and the next year he moved to Springfield, where he became a law partner of John T. Stuart. Lincoln began practicing more. His first partnership was succeeded by others, with Stephen T. Logan and then with William H.Herndon who was later to be Lincoln's biographer. Lincoln showed to be pretty talented in law, a ready grasp of argument, and sincerity, and clarity of speech.

In 1842 he married Mary Todd  after a troubled courtship. He continued his interest in politics and became part of the nagtional level by serving one term in Congress.  Lincoln lost popularity at home because he voted to have war supplies and that was "unpatriotic" Lincoln worked hard for the election of the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor, in 1848, but when he lost the election —Commissioner of the General Land Office—he decided to retire from politics and return to the practice of law.