Glenn e singleton biography of abraham lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (12 February1809 – 15 April1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Initially entering politics as a Whig, he became a member of the US congress from Illinois, and later the first Republican president, leading Union forces throughout the moral, constitutional, political and military crises of the American Civil War, during which he abolished slavery and strengthened the U.S. government.

Quotes

1820s

• Abraham Lincoln is my name
  And with my pen I wrote the same
  I wrote in both hast and speed
  and left it here for fools to read

1830s

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education, and thereby be enabled to read the histories of his own and other countries, by which he may duly appreciate the value of our free institutions, appears to be an object of vital importance, even on this account alone, to say nothing of the advantages and satisfaction to be derived from all being able to read the Scriptures, and other works both of a religious and moral nature, for themselves.

• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
  • Speech to Illinois legislature (January 1837); This is "Lincoln's First Reported Speech", found in the Sangamo Journal (28 January 1837) according to McClure's Magazine (March 189

A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America’s Greatest Story Teller With Introduction and Anecdotes

By Alexander K. McClure

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the Great Story Telling President, whose Emancipation Proclamation freed more than four million slaves, was a keen politician, profound statesman, shrewd diplomatist, a thorough judge of men and possessed of an intuitive knowledge of affairs. He was the first Chief Executive to die at the hands of an assassin. Without school education he rose to power by sheer merit and will-power. Born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, his surroundings being squalid, his chances for advancement were apparently hopeless. President Lincoln died April 15th, 1865, having been shot by J. Wilkes Booth the night before.

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

LINCOLN’S NAME AROUSES AN AUDIENCE

LINCOLN AND McCLURE.

“ABE” LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES.

LINCOLN ASKED TO BE SHOT.

TIME LOST DIDN’T COUNT.

NO VICES, NO VIRTUES.

LINCOLN’S DUES.

“DONE WITH THE BIBLE.”

HIS KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE.

A MISCHIEVOUS OX.

THE PRESIDENTIAL “CHIN-FLY.”

‘SQUIRE BAGLY’S PRECEDENT.

HE’D NEED HIS GUN.

KEPT UP THE ARGUMENT.

EQUINE INGRATITUDE.

‘TWAS “MOVING DAY.”

“ABE’S” HAIR NEEDED COMBING.

WOULD “TAKE TO THE WOODS.”

LINCOLN CARRIED HER TRUNK.

BOAT HAD TO STOP.

MCCLELLAN’S “SPECIAL TALENT.”

HOW “JAKE” GOT AWAY.

MORE LIGHT AND LESS NOISE.

ONE BULLET AND A HATFUL.

LINCOLN’S STORY TO PEACE COMMISSIONERS.

“ABE” GOT THE WORST OF IT.

IT DEPENDED UPON HIS CONDITION.

“GOT DOWN TO THE RAISINS.”

“HONEST ABE” SWALLOWS HIS ENEMIES.

SAVING HIS WIND.

RIGHT FOR, ONCE, ANYHOW.

“PITY THE POOR ORPHAN.”

A LOW-DOWN TRICK.

END FOR END.

LET SIX SKUNKS GO.

HOW HE GOT BLACKSTONE.

A JOB FOR THE NEW CABINETMAKER.

“I CAN STAND IT IF T

Introduction

Background

Surveying Sangamon

The Political Debates of the 1830s

The 1838 Congressional Election

The Lincoln-Douglas-Calhoun Debates of 1839-1840

The 1840 Presidential Election

The Election of 1844 and the Tariff

The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

Bleeding Kansas in 1855-1857

The Lecompton Constitution

Senator Douglas Versus President Buchanan

The Kansas Territorial Elections

Douglas and the 1858 Congressional Debate

The 1858 Senate Campaign

The Death of Lecompton, Calhoun and Douglas

References

Introduction

Illinois – a large state with a small population in the 1830s – produced an unusual collection of men (they were virtually all men) who shaped the future of the country. Abraham Lincoln was one. Stephen A. Douglas was another. Their mutual friend and colleague, John Calhoun, was a third. Calhoun has appeared in the biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas primarily as a walk-on character. Calhoun shows up, for example, early in young Lincoln’s life when he provides the young New Salem resident with a much-needed job. The role he played in Lincoln’s life over two and a half decades was more substantial and would prove much more important. Calhoun, for example, shows up in Douglas’s life a few years later when he pushes the Little Giant to run for Congress.

“The ambitions of Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln ran in parallel lines,” wrote Illinois historian Charles A. Church. “Each was the incarnation of the principles he espoused. They were the two poles of the political thought of their time, as Hamilton and Jefferson had been in the days of the fathers. Douglas, as an audacious and ready debater, has never been surpassed in either branch of congress. He had a personal magnetism which made him a popular idol and a born leader of men. He was self-confiden

Diana Schaub is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland and a Visiting Scholar in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies department at the American Enterprise Institute. She was the Garwood Teaching Fellow at Princeton University in 2011-12 and Visiting Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department at Harvard University in fall 2018, fall 2020, and spring 2022.

Education

Ph.D. in Political Science, The University of Chicago, 1992
A.B., Summa cum laude with highest honors in Political Science, Kenyon College, 1981

Lincoln-related Book Chapters, Articles, and Reviews

His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2021)

“The Invention of Slavery: Lincoln on whether technology makes us free,” New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society (Fall 2021)

Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H.W. Brands, Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2021.

“Emancipating the Mind: Lincoln, the Founders, and Scientific Progress,” 2018 Walter Berns Constitution Day Lecture (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 2018)

“Lincoln and ‘The Public Estimate of the Negro’: from Anti-Amalgamation to Antislavery,” in The Political Thought of the Civil War, edited by Alan Levine, Thomas Merrill, and James Stoner (University Press of Kansas, 2018)

“Lincoln and the Daughters of Dred Scott: A Reflection on the Declaration of Independence,” in When in the Course of Human Events: 1776 at Home, Abroad, and in American Memory, edited by Will R. Jordan (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2018)

“Abraham Lincoln’s commentary on the “plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of Independence,” Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts, edited by Alan S. Kahan and Ewa Atanassow (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017)

Review of Redeeming the Great Emancipator by Allen C. Guelzo, Society, March/April 2017

“Lincoln at Get