Abraham Lincoln and his Belief about Slavery

Abraham Lincoln succeeded through his rough journey to pursue what he has imbedded to do. Up to the 21st century you can still remember his face as you reach for a penny. Never the less, his recognition to the public would not have been a success if not for the Lincoln-Douglass Debates and The Freeport Doctrine. A short brief talked about popular sobriety, slave states and slaves. This research paper identifies Lincoln's belief about slavery changed over the course of The Civil War in the contradiction of the Freeport Doctrine. The wisely known Webb B Garrison examine the inside thought of Abraham Lincolns life story. He provided insight views of his family, his work before his famous carrier and providence of his life inside the policy. The book talks in the third point of view perspective which where you can examine the thought and feeling of others. In this book you can provide evidence on where and how Abraham Lincoln used to live. It helps define the secretive life by restating the most dramatic literally through out the countiversy of scholars have had about his life and be weighing the evidences. Web Garrison has had all his life researching about Abraham Lincoln life and testimonies. He has written several books about the Civil War as well as his speeches and debates. The use of this book for my thesis was that it helped look for what Abraham Lincoln had lived by. As stated in the book He was a young country boy raise by his dad, stepmother and siblings working in the fields with no other future than crops no one even his family could have imagine what the brilliant man was up to you. When he became legal age the first thing Abraham Lincoln did was going out of working in the fields were he sees no future and straight to the city of Illinois. Even though his family lived in Illinois with him, his enthusiasm for being successful in life was brilliant. The point of view given in this book is the perspective taken by a third person. He analyzes the thought of several bibliographies written by the own Abraham Lincoln. Being in Illinois already, Abraham Lincoln ran for president unfortunately he lost the candidate but became well known. Robert W Johannsen took the time and goes to analyze the Lincoln and Douglas debates in The Lincoln Douglas debate?. Better known for Stephen A. Douglas (1973) Johannsen also wrote extensively of Lincoln, the Pacific Northwest and American perceptions of the U.S- Mexican war. This book was a collaboration of several publishers analyzing each Debate to the minimum. In here, we could observe the edited version of each debate. You toil and work and earn bread, and I'll eat it." Said Abraham Lincoln mid way through his speech determining that he will just watch and take credit for others job. Robert W Johansen and others were able to determine the timing of each speech. They got to know the consequences and cause-and-effect of each discussion. With the Lincoln and Douglas debates, the Freeport Doctrine was elaborated with seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. What Robert W Johansen did was exerted pieces for each dialogue and or argument and broke them up to show the chronological events what each led up to. In the book what is said is Slavery could legally be barred found out that territory if the territorial legislature simply refused to enact the type of policy regulations necessary to make slavery work makes a statement of the Freeport Doctrine. What really pops out of this book was the transformation of several editors talking about one single topic. The editor is an expert on Douglas also includes a page long discussion of the basis of the text and a ten-page introduction that provides the readers background information. A few notes at the end of each joint debate identify each individual mentioned in the speech or had to do with something in the speech. The second secondary source comes from The National Park Service, the Second Debate; Abraham Lincoln presented Freeport, Illinois with the speech, questions and responses. The responses of each other lasted from thirty minutes up to an hour of arranging the argument. "I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the admission of any more slave States into the Union, even if the people want them?" Answer; I do not now, or ever did, stand pledged against the admission of any more slave States into the Union. In this point of view, President Lincoln did not supported slavery. He stated that he only supports what the people think but he was not on either side of the choice. He, being a public figure did not wanted to give out his opinion so people would not change their opinion and could vote for him. Either way, that year Lincoln lost against Douglas. On the website the editor took time to encounter even the mumbling of the audience. Questions and answers are written out to be delivering to the public. Abraham Lincoln was the representative for Illinois even if Douglass was the president. The population believed more in his word and honesty. In one of the seven speeches of the Freeport Doctrine, Stephen Douglass quoted in response to Abraham On another occasion I proposed that neither Kansas, or any other Territory, should be admitted until it had the requisite population. In the use of this article the point of view of both candidates are present but what it is most important is the way president Lincoln began to think. His morality was to treat others, even men of color, as human and given them in priority Freedom of speech. The question asked by President Lincoln that led up to the Freeport Doctrine was Could the people of a territory exclude slavery if, in spite of Dred Scott decision which declared that people could not? . For response, the basis of his argument was based in how he believed of how popular sovereignty would expand slavery. In this research it is known that Lincoln had his opinion of slavery being a moral wrong and his argument The Immorality of Slavery. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were the goal to reach for Africans. The Declaration of Independence is the testament that gives us our rights as humans in the United States. In comparison, Douglas was against this thought. He argued that the writers of the Declaration of Independence did not include Africans when they stated, All men are created equal. In his perspective, he believes that Africans were not seen as humans and were not entitled to this right. During the debates, the Freeport Doctrine states that territories could effectively exclude slavery depending on the Supreme Court decision during 1857. The case of Dred Scott v. Stanford was the right of Negros imported by their ancestors to American could not be an American citizen. For them, the federal government had neither need nor power to regulate slavery in the federal territories of the United States. In return of this events, the next turning point is where Lincoln started giving out his opinion about the free states and where the Slaves will take place and action. Everything became one on one against Douglass. The arguments became hour speeches that at the end, The Union was united again. The end to slavery became closer each time with the pursue of one day ending it all over America. Either way, this act also brought negative consequences to the argument. Leading to Abraham Lincoln assassination, it creates many arguments over the continuation of slavery or brings it to an end. The debate was the beginning of violations for some Southerners as well as the being one if the major reasons of The Civil War. Democrats on the other hand, went mad that Abraham Lincoln still won in 1860. The main reason why their attitude contributed was because he did not receive any votes from the southern states for the same reason they did not wanted to abolish slavery. The Lincoln No One Knows gives feed back of the point of view Mr. President wanted to reach with The Civil War. On April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter in Charleston's Bay, Confederacy called the fort to be theirs and forced to lower the American Flag in the view of surrender. These Insurrection evoked militias respond this attack as well with four states to becoming Confederacy States. This marked the beginning of The Civil War. Robert W Johansen as well with other publishers and editors made rigorous comments of the in the information imbedded. The knowing of every event, what and how our history is made is astonishing with no doubt(Robert). In the end of this book the quote declared to be the despotism becoming from president Lincoln stood intact The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings . On October 16, 1854 in his Peoria Speech Lincoln declare his opposition to slavery. A section of why his belief and oppositions of this was because of the popularity he obtains by being opposed of what Democrats wanted. Being a Republican meant to be antislavery. In 1854 when Alvan E Bovay the opposition of the Kansas-Nebraska Act took built this party was begging to be repealed for slavery not to enlarge into new territories. Concluding, they realized they needed more than one issue to present into their candidacy they added transcontinental railway and free land for settlers. Consummation up wining and beginning the battle of slavery. At the end, slavery ended and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during a play. After all, Abraham Lincoln was man of character, prominent activist in the civil rights, and a shrewd politician who started at the bottom. His passion for nationalism, equal rights and democracy showed in each of his speech. His assassination was a tragedy and devastation for the United States. By all counts, and with proven results, there is no wonder that many after all considered him the greatest president of the United States. Bibliography Primary Source Garrison, Webb B. The Lincoln No One Knows: the Mysterious Man Who Ran the Civil War. Rutledge Hill 1993 Secondary Sources Johnansen, Robert W, editor. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Oxford University Press; Second Printing Edition 1965 National Parks Service Second Debate: Freeport, Illinois., U.S. Department of the Interior, www.nps.gov/liho

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