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Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

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Born in 1809, Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Shortly thereafter, several southern states seceded from the Union, forming the Confederate States of America. With the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Civil War had begun. Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, a conflict which lasted through his entire term. He was assassinated in April 1865, just days following the surrender of the Confederacy.

 


irishgit

Rode roughshod over the constitution, suspended civil liberties with draconian whim, and regarded blacks as a "nuisance"

That being said, his task was to preserve the Union, and win the war, and he accomplished that. Ignoring some of his methods, this was an honorable task, albeit not always accomplished in an honorable way.

I suspect that he would have corrected the constitutional and legal violations that he created in his second term, but the cavalier ease with which he instituted them has always troubled me.
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• Review posted on 05/02/2007
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Replies to irishgit's review:

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irishgit (150)
05/02/2007		I agree. I think he was a masterful politician, very adept at electoral politics, both in the big and the little picture. His historical footprint sometimes forgets or overshadows his very evident pragmatism.
Jed1000 (74)
02/13/2007		I agree with most of that. The thing is that to do what he needed to do (free the slaves and preserve the union) he had to win reelection. In order to win the next election he first had to get the nomination. He had to placate both sides of his party in order to do that. He was being pragmatic and yes, dishonest with his own principles, for the sake of the longterm goal.
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