Biography of Lincoln Message

Abraham Lincoln. Library of foreign literature. Born on February 12, near Khojenville. He died on April 15, in Washington. He attended a school with breaks, but regularly engaged in self -education. With Lincoln settled in New Seelem Illinois, where he worked as a clerk in a store, a surveyor, in the local postmaster, studied law and was admitted to legal practice. In A.

Lincoln, he was elected four times at the Legislative Assembly of Illinois from the Viga party. He moved to the capital of Springfield. He married Mary Todd. In he represented Illinois in the lower house of the US Congress, opposed the war with Mexico and the slave trade. In the presidential election, Abraham Lincoln received the vast majority of the votes of the board of electors.

The slave -owning states responded to the election of Lincoln by secession - the exit from the Union and the proclamation of the Confederative States of America in February. An important achievement of the administration of Abraham Lincoln was the adoption in May of Gomsted-Akt, which provided for the endowment of each citizen of the country by land overwhelming in acres of 64 hectares.

The law inflicted a strong blow to slavery and led to a radical solution to the agrarian problem - the development of agriculture along the farm path. Speaking on November 19 at the opening of a military cemetery in Gettisberg, Abraham Lincoln said that the soldiers who rested here give their lives to gain the "new birth of freedom", and "this is the government of the people, from the people, for the people will never disappear from the face of the earth." This brief, of 10 phrases, speech has become a true manifesto of American democracy, and Lincoln strengthened his glory of a brilliant speaker.

In the elections, despite the objections of a number of politicians and his own doubts, Abraham Lincoln defeated his rival from the Democratic Party of General J. Lincoln believed that the liberation of slaves should be legally secured. At his insistence, the Congress on January 31 adopted the XIII amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited slavery in the United States and entered into force after ratification of its states in December of the same year.

The President advocated the speedy conclusion of the world and personally went on February 3 to meet with the leaders of the Confederation, who fell off due to the non-constructive position of the southerners. In his second inaugural speech, Lincoln called for rejoice. The president failed to realize his plans. Bout entered the presidential box and shot Abraham Lincoln in the head.

In the morning of the next day, without regaining consciousness, the president died. In the courtyard of the library of foreign literature, Moscow, a bust of Abraham Lincoln was opened. Among the guests was John McClary, an American sculptor, author of the monument to Abraham Lincoln, who now decorates Moscow.