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A Legacy Abraham Lincoln
"I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VI, "Proclamation of Thanksgiving" (October 3, 1863), p. 497.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861.
"Death does not make a hero....their life does!. Abraham Lincoln is my second favorite hero next to Jesus Christ. Though there are countless heroes from yesterday his example is the second greatest of eternity. To me he represents a true Legacy in the journey of life. A person that has made the difference in the world as we know.
Lincoln is known best... as the Great Emancipator, the man who freed the slaves. Lincoln was always known for being really ambitious. He could also be moody and melancholy-tormented by long and frequent bouts of depression. Lincoln was also a humorous man-famous for his rollicking stories. Grown up, he was 6'4", lean in flesh, and had darkhair. Lincoln had an older sister by 2 years, her name was Sarah. Abraham was named after his pioneer grandfather.Young Lincoln was born in... Hodegenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809 in a cabin with 1 window, 1 door, 1 chimney, & a hard- packed floor of dirt. He was a poor farm boy, he grew up swinging an ax on frontier homesteads in Kentucky, Indiana, & Illinois. As Abraham grew up, he worked many different places and moved all around. He had many jobs at all different ages & he was always changing his ideas.His family and his goals ...
Lincoln didn't have an education, but was a great writer and speaker and used great sayings that we still use today! He married Mary Edwards November 4, 1842. He had 4 boys- Robert Todd-1843, Eddie-1846, Willie-1850, and Tad-1853. Eddie his son, not yet 4, became ill and died on February 1, 1850. Lincoln's two things he wanted to accomplish were to save his country from dismemberment & ruin. Secondly to free his country from the great crime of slavery!
Heroes are people who are strong willed, heroic, brave, loyal, proud, faithful, kind, helpful, caring, honorable, respected, dedicated, hard working, selfless, and so much more. Lincoln shows great examples of all these things! He made such an impact on so many lives in so many ways. Lincoln is someone who everyone in the world will always know for his great deeds and his wonderful attitude towards everything!
"Father Abraham," or "Uncle Abe," as he had come to be known--like the reigning elder of the American family, albeit a dysfunctional one--had proven his appeal to his "children" just a few months before in hard numbers, handily winning re-election, and earning four out of every five votes cast by the federal soldiers risking their lives in the field.
Just days before he lost his life here, Lincoln entered the devastated Confederate capital of Richmond, not to act the conquering hero, it should be noted, but to visibly, personally "bind up the nation's wounds." He was greeted with such impassioned reverence by liberated slaves that, overcome with emotion, Lincoln had to beg them to kneel not to him, but only to God. He drew bitter criticism that day merely for placing his hand on a black man's shoulder in public. "It was the great deliverer meeting the delivered," marveled an eyewitness. Lincoln "heard the Thanksgivings" that day for himself. He knew what he had become.
He was the president of the United States from 1861-1865 during the Civil War. He led the Union to war in order to prevent the Southern States from seceding from the United States. This shows heroism, braveness, and loyality to his country. It shows that he is proud and faithful to be an American!
He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, which awarded 65 hectares (160 acres) to settlers who agreed to farm the land for five years. This shows that he was kind and helpful to people.
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolishing slavery in states that rebelled against the United States. His doing this shows examples of caring, honorable, respected, and dedicated.
Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. He had so many incredible accomplishments and sacrifices in his short lifetime that show that he was a hard working and selfless leader and hero. I think he is a definite hero in our world.
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