That was Abraham Lincoln's words when he was 32 years old. The disappointment came streak took him to a point where he wanted to end his life. Lincoln wrote those words above when he decided to start a new chapter in his life. Later, he became one of the President of America's most known and loved by the public. His name is famous throughout the world as a man who ended slavery in America.
Lincoln was born in Kentucky, USA, where his father worked as a carpenter. He has lost his mother at an early age, then her father married again. But Lincoln and his sister had loved her stepmother's.
Lincoln's little boy grow up to be tall and sturdy. Her clothes always never seemed fitting. Always felt short sleeve and pants are always hanging above the ankle. When observed, it seems he does not deserve to be great in the future, which turned out to be realized.
Lincoln Slavery was first seen, was when he was hired to carry cargo freighter to New Orleans in 1828. Then, when he visited the city for a second time, he promised himself that he must remove the practice of slavery.
Lincoln did not follow such education in general, but he was keen to learn reading and writing to successfully become a lawyer. Though she sometimes regarded as a 'gay' by the neighbors because of the behavior and the way dressed, but he was quite sociable to the local people. This is simply because he has an outstanding sense of humor and always making other people happy. His first fell in love with a woman named Anne Rutledge, a neighbor boy innkeeper where he lived. Anne's father was the one who suggested that Lincoln was plunged into politics.
Early in his career, Lincoln was elected to the parliament for the Illinois region in 1834. Then re-elected in 1838 and 1840. At that time, he met a man named Stephen Douglas, who later become rivals both in the matter of love and political affairs. Mary Todd, the woman who they fought over, came from Kentucky, chose Lincoln as husband, but they are not happy pernikahn. In 1842, after a year of their marriage, Lincoln opened the firm with a friend named William H. Herndon. Friendship of these two men turned out to continue to survive until the end of Lincoln's life. Later, Herndon was the one who wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to Congress. However, its membership was not renewed because he proposed legislation to end slavery in the District of Columbia. Disappointed, he re-activate his firm. He stopped his political activities for some time, but then he is better known by the public as an honest lawyer.
In fact, Lincoln could not stop for too long from the political world. In 1854, the issue of slavery made him jump back into politics. Taampaknya he had to compete with Stephen Douglas, who tried to subdue the South Americans who supported slavery, while the Northern region were opposed. Lincoln did not expect that half of this country to maintain the practice of slavery as opposed to half of his fellow countrymen. He thought it could not be made up of half the nation half slave instead. However, Lincoln was hit in the first round against Douglas, the U.S. Senate seats.
Although this time he lost, in May 1860, Lincoln was elected as a Republican presidential candidate. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party all-out attack, and they call it a 'lawyer beans', 'incapable of speaking English' and so forth. But finally, he was elected President of the United States. Four days after he became President, Southern states were out of the Federation of American States. Southern countries that then formed a Confederacy itself. Lincoln felt sad for it, and try to seek an end to separation. However, the conflict between North and South is even more heightened and became the Civil War. Lincoln continued to try to stop the conflict despite his best to no avail.
To understand the political background of the American Civil War, a need to clarify how the origin of America was formed. In the 17th century, migrants from Britain, France, Spain, Holland and Germany came to North America, which they regard as a land uninhabited their newfound. They came in search of prosperity, gain religious freedom, and to expand the power of their homeland and build a new empire. British Empire and then apply the laws there, so that the new land they called New England. After the war of American independence, free territories were then formed a federation, which they call the United States. Each of the new Federation agreed to keep his government take care of its own, although they also have to deal with common interests. Because, things like Defense remains a common affair.
The southern part of America that join the federation, to develop agriculture that relies on slave labor. The north is more heavily dependent on trade and industry, although agriculture still considered important. Because there was no slavery in the north. Meanwhile, the issue of slavery became the hot issue for the newly joined the United, while the people in those states are not really ready with the question of slavery. Meanwhile, American laws declared all men are equally entitled to the 'life and liberty to obtain happiness', but also protects private property rights. Slaves were private. Opinion that the slave is private property so contrary to other opinions that the slave is the Man who also has the right to independence. This is the basic problem for people all over the U.S. territory.
Actually a lot of aspects that can be seen from this issue. First, what is an enslaved human being as well right? Today, slavery is not justified in many other countries around the world. Everyone agrees that is clearly not justified to curb the freedom of others. But the Southern people have been spending a lot of money to buy slaves. Social life, economic, political and they walked on the basis of ownership of the slaves. So, really not hard to understand how important the practice of slavery for them.
There is also a political side in slave ownership problems for countries in the South. How to run a 'Union States' when some of the region consists of 'people-free' while others are 'slaves'? Still, this is a desirable competitor Lincoln, Douglas. Clearly South countries more and more worried if the Federation territory that 'so-free', then slavery would be abolished completely. They think if this happens, they will go bankrupt, both socially and politically. The only way might be to form two separate federal. But even this was not possible.
Shortly after Lincoln was elected President, Southern withdraw from the federation. On April 12, 1861, the South attacked the North area in the city of Fort Sunter. Civil War or the 'war between the states of the federation' has begun.
There are big differences between North and South. In the northern area of population more white skin. They are more advanced in the field of production of goods while the South is better in agriculture. In many cases, exceed the North South, although South region highly skilled military, the war in fact more prevalent in the South. Although they are better in terms of combat. The battle is not easy to win them. As we know, after several attacks, the North won the war. When the war lasted, Lincoln, still urged the holding of elections again in the late period he served as President, and he was re-elected for the next period.
In November 1863, in the battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered a speech, which is remembered throughout history. He said "... was born a new nation, founded on liberty that upholds the recognition that all men are created equal." The words of Lincoln at Gettysburg gives two principles of freedom and equality - which the founding of the United States.
Lincoln died in a way that unexpected. While we were watching a theater with his wife, he was shot by a fellow named John Wilkes Booth. Pick her death, when peace has come for America. Maybe it was the culmination of events that have occurred as casualties of the end of slavery in America. After his death, Lincoln was known as a great man, and the ideals that have been upheld to be maintained by all Americans.
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