“MOST FOLKS ARE ABOUT AS HAPPY AS THEY MAKE UP THEIR MINDS  TO BE”

                   Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

BIOGRAPHY

• Sixteenth American President
  1861-1865
• Born: February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky
• Died: April 15, 1865. Lincoln died the morning after being shot at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin county Kentucky. His parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families–second families. His mother died when he was only 10 years old. At age 8 his father was removed from Kentucky to Indiana.

Lincoln made extraordinary efforts to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. He was a captain in the Black Hawk War, spent eight years in the Illinois legislature, and rode the circuit of courts for many years. His law partner said of him, “His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest”

He then married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860.

As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. He then rallied most of the northern Democrats to the Union cause.

On January 1, 1863, he issued the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy.

Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.

The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…. “

On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre in Washington by JOHN WILKES BOOTH, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincoln’s death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died.

I PARTICULARLY CHOSE THIS QUOTE OF THE DAY FOR EXACTLY WHAT IT MEANS “MAKE UP YOUR MINDS TO BE HAPPY” TREAT YOURSELVES Y’ALL TO ME…… (LOL) 

“AND ON A SERIOUS NOTE FOR WHAT ABRAHAM LINCOLN STOOD FOR AND  HIS MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO BOTH AMERICAN AND WORLD HISTORY…………”

COCO DEVYNE 

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