HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
There is a fine line between those who use power for personal fulfillment or a few, of those who use them for the common good. Pobrably
there is no absolute example of any of the two cases, but Abraham
Lincoln is perhaps one of the best examples to follow. He
had the power to persecute, arrest and impose magnanimous ideals that
today would agree, but wake in his time more of an annoyance. He paid for his boldness with the highest price that could impose: his own life.
Abraham
Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States and the first
by the Party Republicano.Como a strong opponent of the expansion of
slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party
nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During
his term, he helped preserve the United States by the defeat of the
secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He
introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing
his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865.
Lincoln
closely supervised the outcome of the war until it ended, especially
the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln
successfully mobilized public opinion through his rhetoric and
speeches, his Gettysburg Address is but one example of this. After
the war, Lincoln established the reconstruction, trying to quickly
gather the country through a policy of generous reconciliation. His assassination in 1865 was the first assassination in the United States.
During
his presidency, Lincoln is recognized as having freed the slaves with
the Emancipation Proclamation, but this release only in areas of the
Confederacy not controlled by the Union. However, the proclamation made the abolition of slavery in the rebel states were an official war goal. This
gave impetus to the adoption of the thirteenth and fourteenth
amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery and
established the federal civil rights enforcement. During
the Civil War, Lincoln received Congressional powers that no previous
president had exercised; managed funds without control of Congress and
suspended habeas corpus. Thus
Lincoln was able to arrest political opponents (many Democrats) and
members of antiwar groups without prior court orders, in addition to
censor these groups in the press (something contrary to freedom of
expression).
His murder: at the time of reconstruction, and Mary Todd Lincoln left to attend a performance at Ford's Theatre. The play was Our American Cousin, a musical comedy. When
Lincoln sat in the balcony, John Wilkes Booth, an actor from Maryland,
Virginia resident and Southern sympathizer, appeared from behind fired a
single shot with a bullet Deringer pistol round to the president's head
and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis " (Latin expression meaning "Thus always to tyrants"), killing the "beloved" president. Booth
jumped from the balcony to the stage, the audience thought that was
incorporated bowing, but the truth is that he had broken a leg.
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