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President Abraham Lincoln
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On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863. It was the basis for the American Civil War. From this point onward people of color entered into another form of slavery, economic.
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Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, died during an epidemic of "milk sickness," caused by drinking the milk of cows feeding on poisonous plants [2a] [More]. Fear of the milk sickness' return seems to have been a factor in the surviving Lincolns' decision to move from Indiana to Illinois in 1830 [8e]. [5p]. [More].
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At Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, the Turners formed Lincoln's bodyguard; and a sizable garrison of federal troops was ... present, ready to protect the president and the capital from rebel invasion. In his address (paragraph 29), Lincoln said, "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." [2]
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Congressman John Lewis and Dr. James M. McPherson have been named the 2007 recipients of Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medals. Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medals were bestowed on Congressman Lewis and Dr. McPherson by Nicholas D. Chabraja, Vice Chair of the Ford's Theatre Society Board of Trustees and one of the 2005 winners, at the Ford's Theatre annual benefit gala held on Sunday, June 24, 2007.
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When his father could spare him from chores, Lincoln attended an ABC school. Such schools were held in log cabins, and often the teachers were barely more educated than their pupils. According to Lincoln, "no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond readin', writin', and cipherin', to the Rule of Three." Including a few weeks at a similar school in Kentucky, Lincoln had less than one full year of formal education in his entire life.
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Perhaps no other piece of his writing shows as this does how completely the genius of the President rose to the full height of his duties and responsibilities. From beginning to end it speaks the language and breathes the spirit of the great ruler, secure in popular confidence and in official authority.
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