Lincoln's Short Obituary

Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." This are words by "Honest Abe," the sixteenth president of the United States of America. 

During his career Lincoln accomplished many impressing things. He had no formal affiliation to any religion nor received any formal education. He was a lawyer. "Elected to Illinois State Legislature, 1834. Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1847-49." He was president of the country for two consecutive terms running for the Republicans. He was the one fighting for the Union to not dissolve. In part, because of him we have the United States of America as it is right now. 

His most important achievements were during the Civil War. Were the Union, under his command, won. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 freeing all slaves in the states that had seceded and that were not yet under Northern control. This act was not taken into action right away, but he made sure that it ran in a proper time span. "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."

Works Cited

"Abraham Lincoln." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln/>.

"Abraham Lincoln - President of the United States (POTUS)." Abraham Lincoln - President of the United States (POTUS). N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Jan. 2013. <http://www.potus.com/alincoln.html>.