The destroyer of slavery

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician, sixteenth president of the United States and the first for the GOP

As 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, not only through a role, but also the belief of the American people, he had inspired Americans with his speeches on that freedom belongs to everyone and that no one should be a slave to another, with the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 which gave a free the slaves, then the approval was given in 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. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle that all people are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war that tests whether that nation , or any nation so conceived and so dedicated , can last over time . We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live . It is absolutely right and proper to do so. But , in a larger sense , we can not dedicate , we can not consecrate , we can not hallow this ground. The brave men , living and dead , who struggled here have consecrated it and , far above our poor power which could add or subtract. The world just warn and not long remember what we say here , but it can never forget what they did here . We are , rather, we, the living , who we must devote ourselves here to the unfinished work which they made so much progress here and fought so nobly . We rather live here that we must dedicate ourselves to the great task remaining before us still : that from these honored dead who take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last heaping measure of zeal. Here we resolve firmly that these dead shall not have given their lives in vain. That this nation , God willing, shall have a new birth of freedom. And that government of the people , by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth "

After the war, Lincoln established the U.S. reconstruction, trying to quickly reunite the country through a policy of generous reconciliation. His death was by murder in 1865 in the Fort Theatre with his wife and his friend Grant in the box, was the first U.S. president to be murdered.