LINCOLN, ABRAHAM

(1809-65 sixteenth president of U.S.; b. ne Hodgenville, Kentucky; had little schoc ing; brought up on father’s farn journeyed to New Orleans_on flatbo (1828); clerk of store at New Sale (1831); continued education in spa time; turned attention to law at politics; volunteered for service | Black Hawk Ind. War, becomiz militia captain (1832); defeated in ca didature for house of representative Tllinois (1832); postmaster of New Sale (1833); surveyor of Sangamon Cc (1833). Became a member of the Il no is legislature (1834); re-elected (183 1838, 1840); advocated ternal ir provements and convention syster admitted to bar (1836); member | Congre (1846); introduced ‘Spot Res lutions’ concerning Mexican invasio: (1847); opposed slavery; retired fro political affairs (1852). On pa ing | Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act, 185 when slavery question was reopene Lincoln again entered public life; b came leader of opposition in Illinoi met Douglas in public discu ion nominated for senate by Republic a: (1858); won fame by speeches durit election campaign, but was not electe made a great speech against slavery io (1860); elected preside Seven slave - owning states th seceded from Union, forming the Co federate States; civil war began | Confederate siege and capture of Fo Sumter (1861). Lincoln proclaim: blockade of southern ports, and arrang for raising of large army and nav approved pa ing of Act for emancip tion of slaves in Columbia (1862); b interfered to nullify Hunter’s proclam tion of freedom to slaves in Georg Florida, and S. Carolina (1862); pr posed to give monetary com pens at i to states for gradual abolition of slaver without result; saving of the Unio even more than destruction of slaver was his aim. He made the introducto proclamation of emancipation in Seq 1862; finally proclaimed freedom slaves in rebel states (Jan. 186: During the Civil War he preserv friendly relations with foreign stat thus preventing outside complicatior made famous speech dedicating batt field of Gettysburg as soldiers’ cemete (Noy. 1863); executed draft to enfor conscription (1863); on suggestions 1 garding peace, announced willingne to stop war on submi ion of rebels national authority of Union const it tion. Re-elected president in 1864, | held conference with Confederate Co1 mi ioners (Feb. 1865); adhered to ca ditions that national authority must restored in all states, that government would not withdraw concerning slavery, that no truce was po ible except as end of war; terms rejected; war ended (April 1865); he entered Richmond after its surrender; a a inated at Washington (April 14). Simple and unaffected in manner; tolerant and honorable in character. A replica of the statue by August us St. Gaudens in Lincoln Park, Chicago, was erected in Canning Square, Westminster, as a gift from the people of the U.S.