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We have one … Trump ! Think about it all the demons in DC loved the tar out of him as long as he wrote checks to there campaign .. now he runs against them and wins they hate him and vilify b him… I’m scared he will end up like Lincoln 😪
These are such great videos - thank you. I believe that Lincoln was one of the greatest men who ever lived - from extremely humble beginnings to reach the highest position in the USA - such a remarkable story.
I came to the USA as a migrant and learned a lot about the history of this great nation. You came along way. Thank you Pr. Lincoln. Thank you to all the people who supported you in your extraordinary political journey for justice and equality. /////// Well that Douglass was something else. I have to look at those debates. ////// TEARS OF JOY, NOSTALGY AND SADNESS. I love split wood like Pr.Lincoln.//// Thank you again.
If people would read our documents the Declaration of Independence and bill of rights we would not be in the mess we are in now. Our documents must be taught in every grade in our schools so our young know it like the back of their hands.
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@@cindyknudson2715 they don’t even know we have 3 branches of government. Can’t even name them or what their jobs are. Those who know are in denial that our government is so evil. Hell they buy them their food pay for their housing give them huge tax returns bigger than they paid in. They think they are help them instead of owning them. Hell they pay them not to marry babies daddy. They give them a few $100 a year to lock them down ship baby formula else where. They are in denial that their keepers would do that to them.
In my experience, the public schools don't even touch on our basic rights. It's like our state ( Michigan in my case) wants us ignorant for some reason or another. Today, our government is not our friend. We are a commodity. So yes, I agree with your comment completely. We need to educate our youth in the foundational values our nation was built on.
All the relatives on my father's side of the family came from Illinois. My sister andI were born in Freeport where Lincoln and Douglas had a debate. We were taught to revere Lincoln and all he stood for. You will find signs on the highways pointing out where Lincoln traveled. My father would say "We are in Lincoln country." This was most important to my father as a Republican.
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It's really too bad the Republican party has moved so far from its roots. They then believed it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to enforce the same law throughout America. Republicans today are dividing us with threats of violence. They do not believe all men are created equal. That there is one who they've set above all laws. We need to come back together. United States. Freedom and peace can not be had without equal justice for all.
What an outstanding and informative production that gives valuable insights about the formative years and public policy grounding of one of the truly great Presidents in history. This documentary should be required viewing by students in all fields of study involving public policy. This documentary demonstrates that the true masters of public policy can use the bully pulpit with dignity, knowledge, and statesmanship to eloquently and persuasively advance a cause even in a nation divided.
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As a 9 time Ironman Triathlon finisher I study the greats of the sport I have completed in since 1985. Along with tennis , football, baseball , basketball . But more important than those sports and the greats of those sports is studying Presidential history since the 4th grade walking into the library and picking up a biography of Lincoln . He was born on the 12th , myself the 17th . Wanted to see if any presidents birthdays fell on mind . I always say my birthday fell 5 days after Lincoln, and 5 days before Washington . But as time never stops , I have never stopped studying about Lincoln . He would have been great at being our 2nd President to today's . He was the GOAT . Only 2 should be on Rushmore .
Nothing against Lincoln or his prospects, but America at that time was by no means a world power. The Europeans didn’t even take the American civil war seriously, they just thought it was 2 factions of unorganized mobs duking it out in the countryside. Not to mention, despite abolition, black people were still treated horribly and denied basic rights for another 100 years.. the most influential thing Lincoln did was pave the way for America to become a united industrial power, rather than seperated, but at the same time spelled the end of freedom of government especially at the state level, overridden by the federal government.. USA became a great power at the expense of freedom. The civil war saw the first implementation of paper (fake) money, the rise of the first income tax (which never went away), and major voting fraud.. Lincoln was not as well liked as he is portrayed.. especially when the North was getting their ass kicked by General Lee. To ensure his victory for a 2nd term, Lincoln had to send soldiers to storm the ballots and vote in states they didn’t even reside in, not to mention soldiers oversaw the collection of ballots, threw out votes for McClellan, and harassed people into voting republican. Lincoln turned territories into states to give himself more of a chance to win, and even furloughed republican soldiers/ officers to go and vote while requiring democratic ones to stay in the field to prevent them from voting.. very tyrannical. But everything at a cost I suppose.. Lincoln got the ball rolling in a certain direction. That’s where his legacy resides. At that time most of Europe had already abolished slavery many years ago so it wasn’t seen like that big of a deal.. and it really wasn’t, especially considering USA was not a superpower at that point either.
This is a very instructive video indeed. Among many other things one wonders how the history of the world might be different today if Lincoln were not elected President at that particular time in History. Secession would come and we can only conclude the US would have been divided( at least for a long period time until perhaps another bloody civil war erupted at immense costs). The two parts of the former USA would not be as strong as the united USA came to be, and this obviously would mean that Germany would have prevailed in an essentially European conflict, which would certainly come, probably in the early 1900s if not earlier still. All this changed because Lincoln almost by miracle was not only elected in 1861, but managed reelection in 1864, when the loss would probably represent the recognition of the CSA, slavery, etc. The CSA would probably be managed like an English-speaking Argentina, with little investiment ih Industry and Technology, and would never become a world power. How different the 20th century would be without Lincoln.
My family knew Abraham Lincoln and helped start the Republican party. Francis A. Hoffman was on the same ticket. Francis ran for Lieutenants Governor of Illinois and Lincoln ran for President.
John Hanks, who was a first cousin to Lincoln’s mother, and was first cousin once removed to Abraham Lincoln was my 5th Great Uncle through my mother. John Hanks’ youngest brother Andrew Jackson Hanks (1815-1889) was my 4th Great-Grandfather. They were neighbors to Lincoln in Macon County in 1830. You mentioned John Hanks in this video, sailing on the flatboat to New Orleans (although it has been said John Hanks got off the boat at St Louis.)
Your talking about a long period of time where Lincoln matures from a young man to middle age. What’s more important is to find a speaker who has the skill to deliver the message.
If I had a magic wishing bone, one of my wishes would be for (say) Cormack McCarthy to publish a dramatic rendering of one of those lawyerly excursions.
Anomaly at 48:38 - When the Compromise of 1850 was being worked out, Daniel Webster wasn't a Massachusetts Senator, he was Pres. Fillmore's Secretary of State.
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 Thanks for the correction. It's my mistake for not looking beyond the Wikipedia article on Webster that lists his Senate term as ending in 1849.
Annie Van Auken he was a Senator. He rose in the Senate Chamber to stake his career, his reputation, and perhaps the nation's future on the success of a speech that he hoped would unite moderates of all sections in support of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay's proposed "Compromise of 1850.
I know moor about Lincoln than most people Lincoln suffered from war at the end of his life slavery was a sin of the people not accepted by Lincoln . his wife was a crippling stampeded of money that took him to being broke .his love for his sons broke his heart and very little sleep . if people only new the truth how this man suffered the life he had from child hood with a father who said hate to his son a mother who died who loved her children a new mom who gave him a better life because of her faith .Rev Mike Church of the light
A woman came to the WH to speak to Lincoln she asked him how long the war will last. He said "Madam I will never see PEACE for this war is killing me."
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That's not what "created equal" means. It means before the laws and rights of man. We have the same rights. Has nothing to do with the differences of our intelligence, stature etc etc
@@tomhaggard3352 We have all the same rights that is because we have equality in dignity as human beings. However there is a distortion where jobs are concerned. Ex. One that has no intellectual abilities wants a job that requires a high IQ. Or someone with no physical habilités wants a job which requires a lot of physical abilities like being a firefighter etc BUT with this non discrimination element in the workforce the employer cannot choose the best qualified for the job but must respect a certain quota of different chategories of people ex race and sex etc. Even if they are not the best qualified person for the employment. If not they claim discrimination and their right to get the job they want ant they win ! This is an example of the distortion that has followed a misunderstanding of equality!
@suzanneguiho4882 While there are distortions anecdotally I can tell you as a business owner of 30 years I've never been interfered with in hiring the employees I've chosen.
@@tomhaggard3352 Well you are lucky! But then you are in a private intériorisé. May I suggest you examine what is done in public enterprises… there you will find it. Nice talking to you. This is probably not be received well but I see signs and it’s growing that we are becoming more and more a Marxist state in America and in Europe. And… we are always stating in public that we are in a Democracy. The veneer on the latter is becoming more and more thin…!
Sadly In The Current Shallow, Frivolous, Culture Of U.S. Electoral Politics A Man Or Woman Of Abe's Intellectual Depth And Personal Character Would Be Laughed At And Dismissed By A Fickle Electorate, When At A Time We Need Someone Like To Emerge- So Desperately!
@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 I think the whole thing is way more complicated than your documentary reveals. Lincoln made several racist remarks about slaves not marrying white women during the Douglas debates. I read through one of them online. The abolitionists were indeed too radical. Slavery could have been ended without a war imo.
The late President Abe Lincoln said all men are equil. He meant man and female according the Bible, GODS WORD. He was a true Christian believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD ALMIGTHY IS THE CREATOR🙏
The Red Guard destroying thousands of Chinese history and the Marxist brainwashed youth of today tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Portland today... They target the youth to be their minions because they haven't taught history for years and they have no memory.
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Perhaps. But consider the deaths of two of her children, one during the war, and one right after the assassination of her husband. Add to that the fact that all of her half-brothers and sisters in Lexington, KY, were Confederate officers, or married to Confederate officers, the very people her husband waged war upon. The mental stresses must have been unbearable.She dabbled in spiritualism, very popular at that period, and her son Robert probably felt he had no alternative.
Lincoln’s ambition was to colonize blacks out of the country. His strategy involved persuading some prominent blacks in the North to self-deport in hopes that all Lincoln began to consider emancipation as a “war measure,” it was always linked to colonization. This was the plan right up until September 1862. Then he issued emancipation in 1863 without mention of colonization, at least in the Proclamation’s final draft. Colonization seemed to drop as a priority. It appeared to disappear from his agenda the remainder of his life. This, coupled with Lincoln’s willingness to allow limited black suffrage in 1865, provided the opportunity for the purveyors of the righteous cause myth to claim the sudden evolution of Lincoln from a segregationist racist to a champion of black civil rights. Two theories emerged to explain this evolution. The “lullaby” theory claims Lincoln never actually believed in colonization, but rather used it as a means to pacify the public who he knew did not want to live with emancipated blacks. This bought him time to prep the public for his egalitarian racial dream. James McPherson is a proponent of this theory. The second theory is the “change of heart” theory. Lincoln is believed to have undergone a moral awakening and now accepted a multiracial America. Eric Foner is an adherent of this theory.. There were, however, some historical challenges to the notion that Lincoln miraculously evolved. His Sec. of the Navy Gideon Welles stated in 1877 that Lincoln “by no means abandoned his policy of deportation and emancipation, for the two were in his mind indispensably and indissolubly connected.” (Administration of Abraham Lincoln, Galaxy no. 4, p. 439). Henry Clay Whitney, a close Illinois acquaintance of the president wrote in 1892, “Lincoln was a colonizationist... and would have made still more heroic efforts, looking to that end, had he completed his second term.” (Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 4). Perhaps the most challenging to those who need to believe in Lincoln’s egalitarianism was an interview with Lincoln by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler in April 1865. According to Butler, Lincoln approached him asking “what shall we do with the negroes after they are free... I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we get rid of the negroes... I believe it would be better to export them ALL to some fertile country... “ (Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, 1892, p. 903). Butler suggested to Lincoln the sending of the USCT to Panama to dig the canal, and then send for their wives and families in hopes the rest of the black population would follow. To this idea Lincoln replied, “There is meat in that, General Butler, there is meat in that.” Much was done by historians, who promote the popular narrative, to discredit these historical challengers. Butler was dismissed as one known to favor embellishment. After all, Lincoln was silent on colonization after 1862. So how could it possibly be he hadn’t changed? Especially when the popular narrative needed a redeemed Lincoln to promote the righteous cause myth. And his silence on the subject from 1862 to his death was all the evidence that was needed. Everything was good for the proponents of Lincoln’s evolution up until 2011. Then it all came crashing down with the accidental discovery of documents in foreign archives. This led to a collaborative research by Dr. Phillip Magness, Professor of Political History at George Mason University, and Dr. Sebastian Page, research fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. The result was their book Colonization After Emancipation. In it you find, “A secession of document discoveries in the British and American National Archives revealed that the 1863 meeting (June 13, 1863 between British agents and Lincoln) was part of a much larger colonization project, unknown to this day, wherein the American and British governments sought to populate the West Indies with ex-slaves from the United States. Equally startling, this project occurred in the latter years of Lincoln’s presidency when it is commonly believed that he moved away from colonization in favor of his better-known policies to secure the rights and futures of the freedmen in the United States.” (Colonization After Emancipation, pp vii - viii). The authors conclude, “The prospect that the ‘Great Emancipator’ subscribed to colonizationist beliefs, particularly at the end of his life, seems to completely dispel his popular reputation as a racial egalitarian.” (P. 125) That loud boom you hear is Eric Foner, David Blight, and James McPherson’s heads exploding.
Funny that Lincoln focused on “all men are created equal” concerning slavery (black men) but no mention of women being equal. What were Lincoln’s thoughts or feelings on women being equal? Or did he take the Declaration of Independence’s word “Men” in that document, literally? 🤔
Abrar Hussain Shah , False, women didn’t get the right to vote until the 1920s. So how were women treated EQUALLY, by the LAW, if they couldn’t vote in the 1860s??
@@lukewarme9121 Actually, women , nationwide, were granted the right to vote in time to cast their ballots in the 1920 Presidential election, in which Warren Harding was elected. And before 1870, one of the Western states granted women the vote.
David Blaskie - WOW, 1889 is the first time women could vote in a State. Lots longer than before 1870. Let’s stick with the 1920s. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote
Needs to talk about the Illinois antebellum Black Codes he supported and the Corwin Amendment he wrote. He was merely the pupett of Edwin Stanton and Samuel Barlow, their front man.
Karl Burkhalter The thing about life is that you get to make mistakes, learn from them and CHANGE YOUR MIND/OPINION. That’s the beauty of GOD. Since you’re pointing fingers I’m sure you’ve made only righteous and just decisions, correct?
Abraham Lincoln Was a black man.💫👇✨️ If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes--no other marks or brands recollected. From Dec. 20, 1859 autobiography by Abraham Lincoln. Primary Sources & His Own Auto-Biography Proof Abraham Lincoln Was a "Black" Man or "Negro" !!! 45K views1 year ago; by Kurimeo Ahua. Pt. 4 - History or Myth / Phelps Brothers Are The Faces Of Fake Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Mary Todd 22K views1 year ago, by Kurimeo Ahau The Real George Washington was a "Black" Man / Moorish Huguenots / Swarthy Anglo-Saxons / Historical 74K views2 years ago by Kurimeo Ahua In "Atlantis" (America) Was Recovered Ancient Egypt And The Promised Land / Freemasonry Teachings 19K views2 months ago; by Kurimeo Ahua All videos on RUclips 👆✨️🤔
Abraham Lincoln saved the Union and was the greatest president of all time. Thank you for this outstanding historically accurate documentary
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The relevance of Lincoln is so great it is difficult to measure.
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This is and will be the best stories I've ever heard, Lincoln will always be remembered as our country president.
We need another man like Abraham Lincoln to run our country
In his time half the country disliked Lincoln.
We have one.
@@cindyknudson2715: Do you mean Trump or Biden; or both! LOL
Trump has zero respect for the policies of the unanimous declaration of Independence or the bill of rights
We have one … Trump ! Think about it all the demons in DC loved the tar out of him as long as he wrote checks to there campaign .. now he runs against them and wins they hate him and vilify b him… I’m scared he will end up like Lincoln 😪
These are such great videos - thank you. I believe that Lincoln was one of the greatest men who ever lived - from extremely humble beginnings to reach the highest position in the USA - such a remarkable story.
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I so love learning about Lincoln, I consider him our greatest President.
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He did so so much for our united states of American
I do to he was a very great man. Did you know that Lincoln gave us thanksgiving
I love Lincoln he was the best .
His early life is so remarkable...from log cabin with a mud floor to the most powerful man in Western Hemisphere..truth is stranger than fiction
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I came to the USA as a migrant and learned a lot about the history of this great nation. You came along way. Thank you Pr. Lincoln. Thank you to all the people who supported you in your extraordinary political journey for justice and equality. /////// Well that Douglass was something else. I have to look at those debates. ////// TEARS OF JOY, NOSTALGY AND SADNESS. I love split wood like Pr.Lincoln.//// Thank you again.
Thank you for coming to our country.
Great to have you as an American citizen
If people would read our documents the Declaration of Independence and bill of rights we would not be in the mess we are in now. Our documents must be taught in every grade in our schools so our young know it like the back of their hands.
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And our Constitution. So few have even a basic notion of how our government is designed to work.
@@cindyknudson2715 they don’t even know we have 3 branches of government. Can’t even name them or what their jobs are. Those who know are in denial that our government is so evil. Hell they buy them their food pay for their housing give them huge tax returns bigger than they paid in. They think they are help them instead of owning them. Hell they pay them not to marry babies daddy. They give them a few $100 a year to lock them down ship baby formula else where. They are in denial that their keepers would do that to them.
@@cindyknudson2715true since it highlights the power of the people
In my experience, the public schools don't even touch on our basic rights. It's like our state ( Michigan in my case) wants us ignorant for some reason or another. Today, our government is not our friend. We are a commodity. So yes, I agree with your comment completely. We need to educate our youth in the foundational values our nation was built on.
Wonderful presentation. Thank you.
Well done Mr. Lincoln.
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Sarah Lincoln was very responsible for Abraham's success. What an interesting life.
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All the relatives on my father's side of the family came from Illinois. My sister andI were born in Freeport where Lincoln and Douglas had a debate. We were taught to revere Lincoln and all he stood for. You will find signs on the highways pointing out where Lincoln traveled. My father would say "We are in Lincoln country." This was most important to my father as a Republican.
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It's really too bad the Republican party has moved so far from its roots. They then believed it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to enforce the same law throughout America.
Republicans today are dividing us with threats of violence. They do not believe all men are created equal. That there is one who they've set above all laws.
We need to come back together. United States. Freedom and peace can not be had without equal justice for all.
What happened to the Republicans support of Negro rights after the civil war!!!!!
They disappeared after 1870
Thank you for this perspective. Learning Lincoln during virus stay in place
What a powerful presentation. A true classic.
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Thank you for this great lesson on Honest Abe
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You can fool some of the people all the time, right Honest Abe? You can even fool some of the other people some of the time.
What an outstanding and informative production that gives valuable insights about the formative years and public policy grounding of one of the truly great Presidents in history.
This documentary should be required viewing by students in all fields of study involving public policy.
This documentary demonstrates that the true masters of public policy can use the bully pulpit with dignity, knowledge, and statesmanship to eloquently and persuasively advance a cause even in a nation divided.
LOVE HISTORY,,,THANK YOU!
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I learned a lot about Lincoln and our country. Thank you!
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What a wonderful video! It was extremely informative and very entertaining! Bravo!!
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Everyone has to learn from his life courage and determination ...for change
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Grew up in Illinois and did all my schooling there. Abraham Lincoln's presence is always felt.
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Thanks for making and sharing this its great
Excellent!
Thank you.
Thank you for share awesome
As a 9 time Ironman Triathlon finisher I study the greats of the sport I have completed in since 1985. Along with tennis , football, baseball , basketball . But more important than those sports and the greats of those sports is studying Presidential history since the 4th grade walking into the library and picking up a biography of Lincoln . He was born on the 12th , myself the 17th . Wanted to see if any presidents birthdays fell on mind . I always say my birthday fell 5 days after Lincoln, and 5 days before Washington . But as time never stops , I have never stopped studying about Lincoln . He would have been great at being our 2nd President to today's . He was the GOAT . Only 2 should be on Rushmore .
Inclusion of salient detail is both interesting and informative. Excellent production - very thoughtful treatment of subject matter.
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I passed through his ancestral home in England a couple of months back.
Thank you very much. It is very important to uphold the constitution for our future generation
Yes ! That was Lincoln's main objective.
Was there with kids the day this footage was filmed, so cool to come across this
Thanks for watching and commenting. What a fun film to create. The Lincoln family story in Kentucky is so poignant.
@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 yes, what they went through is terrible.
Well done documentary and factual.
Thank you!
The good die young, and the old have only memories. Abe Lincoln is now encased in Marble
...Abraham Lincoln is one solid proof of Gods existence....
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I told my young daughter exactly that and had to remind her during the Trump episodes. She understood.
Very informative
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Mr. Lincoln was quite popular in Northeast Tennessee during the late war.
interesting.
True : not all southerners were for leaving the union. Families were split on both sides.
Jim Plummer sounds familiar 😳😳😳
Imagine if we had leaders like Lincoln today instead of what we are cursed with.
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My three greatest world leaders..1 Abraham Lincoln. 2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt .3 Winston Churchill..
Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Delano Roosevelt were the best
Nothing against Lincoln or his prospects, but America at that time was by no means a world power. The Europeans didn’t even take the American civil war seriously, they just thought it was 2 factions of unorganized mobs duking it out in the countryside. Not to mention, despite abolition, black people were still treated horribly and denied basic rights for another 100 years.. the most influential thing Lincoln did was pave the way for America to become a united industrial power, rather than seperated, but at the same time spelled the end of freedom of government especially at the state level, overridden by the federal government.. USA became a great power at the expense of freedom. The civil war saw the first implementation of paper (fake) money, the rise of the first income tax (which never went away), and major voting fraud.. Lincoln was not as well liked as he is portrayed.. especially when the North was getting their ass kicked by General Lee. To ensure his victory for a 2nd term, Lincoln had to send soldiers to storm the ballots and vote in states they didn’t even reside in, not to mention soldiers oversaw the collection of ballots, threw out votes for McClellan, and harassed people into voting republican. Lincoln turned territories into states to give himself more of a chance to win, and even furloughed republican soldiers/ officers to go and vote while requiring democratic ones to stay in the field to prevent them from voting.. very tyrannical. But everything at a cost I suppose.. Lincoln got the ball rolling in a certain direction. That’s where his legacy resides. At that time most of Europe had already abolished slavery many years ago so it wasn’t seen like that big of a deal.. and it really wasn’t, especially considering USA was not a superpower at that point either.
Abraham Lincoln the greatest American that ever lived. America please wake up and do the right...
American are no longer educated. Abe Lincoln was one of a kind.
Amen
This is a very instructive video indeed. Among many other things one wonders how the history of the world might be different today if Lincoln were not elected President at that particular time in History. Secession would come and we can only conclude the US would have been divided( at least for a long period time until perhaps another bloody civil war erupted at immense costs). The two parts of the former USA would not be as strong as the united USA came to be, and this obviously would mean that Germany would have prevailed in an essentially European conflict, which would certainly come, probably in the early 1900s if not earlier still. All this changed because Lincoln almost by miracle was not only elected in 1861, but managed reelection in 1864, when the loss would probably represent the recognition of the CSA, slavery, etc. The CSA would probably be managed like an English-speaking Argentina, with little investiment ih Industry and Technology, and would never become a world power. How different the 20th century would be without Lincoln.
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My family knew Abraham Lincoln and helped start the Republican party. Francis A. Hoffman was on the same ticket. Francis ran for Lieutenants Governor of Illinois and Lincoln ran for President.
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I grew up and still live in Metamora!!!
John Hanks, who was a first cousin to Lincoln’s mother, and was first cousin once removed to Abraham Lincoln was my 5th Great Uncle through my mother. John Hanks’ youngest brother Andrew Jackson Hanks (1815-1889) was my 4th Great-Grandfather. They were neighbors to Lincoln in Macon County in 1830. You mentioned John Hanks in this video, sailing on the flatboat to New Orleans (although it has been said John Hanks got off the boat at St Louis.)
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Perhaps a younger actor playing the role of Lincolns early years would have been advised.
Abe was too young at the time and thin to look anything like your actor who appears middle aged at best. Remember he was quite tall.
On the other hand the actor playing David Davis looked too young to play the part. Just sayin'.
Your talking about a long period of time where Lincoln matures from a young man to middle age. What’s more important is to find a speaker who has the skill to deliver the message.
i realize it is kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good place to watch newly released series online?
@Dangelo Dario I use flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
I heartily recommend the book "The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln" by CA Tripp. Very very interesting.
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Judging by this video you'd think Stephen Douglas was a member of the *Wig* Party.
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If I had a magic wishing bone, one of my wishes would be for (say) Cormack McCarthy to publish a dramatic rendering of one of those lawyerly excursions.
Anomaly at 48:38 - When the Compromise of 1850 was being worked out, Daniel Webster wasn't a Massachusetts Senator, he was Pres. Fillmore's Secretary of State.
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 Thanks for the correction. It's my mistake for not looking beyond the Wikipedia article on Webster that lists his Senate term as ending in 1849.
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Annie Van Auken he was a Senator. He rose in the Senate Chamber to stake his career, his reputation, and perhaps the nation's future on the success of a speech that he hoped would unite moderates of all sections in support of Kentucky Senator Henry Clay's proposed "Compromise of 1850.
I know moor about Lincoln than most people Lincoln suffered from war at the end of his life slavery was a sin of the people not accepted by Lincoln . his wife was a crippling stampeded of money that took him to being broke .his love for his sons broke his heart and very little sleep . if people only new the truth how this man suffered the life he had from child hood with a father who said hate to his son a mother who died who loved her children a new mom who gave him a better life because of her faith .Rev Mike Church of the light
I just had a mini stroke reading this
A woman came to the WH to speak to Lincoln she asked him how long the war will last. He said "Madam I will never see PEACE for this war is killing me."
Great history
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Why didnt they mention he practiced law in Beardstown, Cass County, Il before the county seat was moved to Virginia, Il?
I thought the Duff Armstrong case was the only one he worked in Beardstown?
im in this im the kid in the red hat at 10:35
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Thanks but you didn’t add credit to us kids in it me and my friends had are names replaced with are parents
@@gavin_shafer13 It was for your protection. Good job by the way
We all have equal dignity but we were not created equal. Ex. Talents, health, size etc
That's not what "created equal" means. It means before the laws and rights of man. We have the same rights. Has nothing to do with the differences of our intelligence, stature etc etc
@@tomhaggard3352 We have all the same rights that is because we have equality in dignity as human beings. However there is a distortion where jobs are concerned. Ex. One that has no intellectual abilities wants a job that requires a high IQ. Or someone with no physical habilités wants a job which requires a lot of physical abilities like being a firefighter etc BUT with this non discrimination element in the workforce the employer cannot choose the best qualified for the job but must respect a certain quota of different chategories of people ex race and sex etc. Even if they are not the best qualified person for the employment. If not they claim discrimination and their right to get the job they want ant they win ! This is an example of the distortion that has followed a misunderstanding of equality!
@suzanneguiho4882 While there are distortions anecdotally I can tell you as a business owner of 30 years I've never been interfered with in hiring the employees I've chosen.
@@tomhaggard3352 Well you are lucky! But then you are in a private intériorisé. May I suggest you examine what is done in public enterprises… there you will find it. Nice talking to you. This is probably not be received well but I see signs and it’s growing that we are becoming more and more a Marxist state in America and in Europe. And… we are always stating in public that we are in a Democracy. The veneer on the latter is becoming more and more thin…!
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Sadly In The Current Shallow, Frivolous, Culture Of U.S. Electoral Politics A Man Or Woman Of Abe's Intellectual Depth And Personal Character Would Be Laughed At And Dismissed By A Fickle Electorate, When At A Time We Need Someone Like To Emerge- So Desperately!
Many men from Illinois fought for the Confederacy.
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@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 I think the whole thing is way more complicated than your documentary reveals. Lincoln made several racist remarks about slaves not marrying white women during the Douglas debates. I read through one of them online. The abolitionists were indeed too radical. Slavery could have been ended without a war imo.
@@witnessinghistoryeducation5885 I also listen to the Abbeville Institute.
Ann was a teen....not an older woman
The late President Abe Lincoln said all men are equil. He meant man and female according the Bible, GODS WORD. He was a true Christian believer in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. GOD ALMIGTHY IS THE CREATOR🙏
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The Red Guard destroying thousands of Chinese history and the Marxist brainwashed youth of today tearing down a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Portland today... They target the youth to be their minions because they haven't taught history for years and they have no memory.
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Do you think Mary was wrongfully committed to an asylum?
Perhaps. But consider the deaths of two of her children, one during the war, and one right after the assassination of her husband. Add to that the fact that all of her half-brothers and sisters in Lexington, KY, were Confederate officers, or married to Confederate officers, the very people her husband waged war upon. The mental stresses must have been unbearable.She dabbled in spiritualism, very popular at that period, and her son Robert probably felt he had no alternative.
Go there and you will see it in Springfield. All of. Abraham Lincoln sites
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What if Lincoln had no interest of slave issue
Or slave issue was main national debate
Lincoln’s ambition was to colonize blacks out of the country. His strategy involved persuading some prominent blacks in the North to self-deport in hopes that all Lincoln began to consider emancipation as a “war measure,” it was always linked to colonization. This was the plan right up until September 1862.
Then he issued emancipation in 1863 without mention of colonization, at least in the Proclamation’s final draft. Colonization seemed to drop as a priority. It appeared to disappear from his agenda the remainder of his life. This, coupled with Lincoln’s willingness to allow limited black suffrage in 1865, provided the opportunity for the purveyors of the righteous cause myth to claim the sudden evolution of Lincoln from a segregationist racist to a champion of black civil rights.
Two theories emerged to explain this evolution. The “lullaby” theory claims Lincoln never actually believed in colonization, but rather used it as a means to pacify the public who he knew did not want to live with emancipated blacks. This bought him time to prep the public for his egalitarian racial dream.
James McPherson is a proponent of this theory. The second theory is the “change of heart” theory. Lincoln is believed to have undergone a moral awakening and now accepted a multiracial America. Eric Foner is an adherent of this theory..
There were, however, some historical challenges to the notion that Lincoln miraculously evolved. His Sec. of the Navy Gideon Welles stated in 1877 that Lincoln “by no means abandoned his policy of deportation and emancipation, for the two were in his mind indispensably and indissolubly connected.” (Administration of Abraham Lincoln, Galaxy no. 4, p. 439). Henry Clay Whitney, a close Illinois acquaintance of the president wrote in 1892, “Lincoln was a colonizationist... and would have made still more heroic efforts, looking to that end, had he completed his second term.” (Life on the Circuit with Lincoln, p. 4). Perhaps the most challenging to those who need to believe in Lincoln’s egalitarianism was an interview with Lincoln by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler in April 1865. According to Butler, Lincoln approached him asking “what shall we do with the negroes after they are free... I can hardly believe that the South and North can live in peace, unless we get rid of the negroes... I believe it would be better to export them ALL to some fertile country... “ (Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, 1892, p. 903). Butler suggested to Lincoln the sending of the USCT to Panama to dig the canal, and then send for their wives and families in hopes the rest of the black population would follow. To this idea Lincoln replied, “There is meat in that, General Butler, there is meat in that.”
Much was done by historians, who promote the popular narrative, to discredit these historical challengers. Butler was dismissed as one known to favor embellishment. After all, Lincoln was silent on colonization after 1862. So how could it possibly be he hadn’t changed? Especially when the popular narrative needed a redeemed Lincoln to promote the righteous cause myth. And his silence on the subject from 1862 to his death was all the evidence that was needed.
Everything was good for the proponents of Lincoln’s evolution up until 2011. Then it all came crashing down with the accidental discovery of documents in foreign archives. This led to a collaborative research by Dr. Phillip Magness, Professor of Political History at George Mason University, and Dr. Sebastian Page, research fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. The result was their book Colonization After Emancipation. In it you find, “A secession of document discoveries in the British and American National Archives revealed that the 1863 meeting (June 13, 1863 between British agents and Lincoln) was part of a much larger colonization project, unknown to this day, wherein the American and British governments sought to populate the West Indies with ex-slaves from the United States. Equally startling, this project occurred in the latter years of Lincoln’s presidency when it is commonly believed that he moved away from colonization in favor of his better-known policies to secure the rights and futures of the freedmen in the United States.” (Colonization After Emancipation, pp vii - viii).
The authors conclude, “The prospect that the ‘Great Emancipator’ subscribed to colonizationist beliefs, particularly at the end of his life, seems to completely dispel his popular reputation as a racial egalitarian.” (P. 125)
That loud boom you hear is Eric Foner, David Blight, and James McPherson’s heads exploding.
Excellent write up Karl. As a lifelong student of A. Lincoln and "the late unpleasantness" I say you are spot on! Good work Sir! Good work!
Why does Abe’s voice actor sound like a more rural version of George HW Bush
The reanactment of Douglas rally in the Capitol looks like a 19th century Trump Rally!
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Funny that Lincoln focused on “all men are created equal” concerning slavery (black men) but no mention of women being equal. What were Lincoln’s thoughts or feelings on women being equal? Or did he take the Declaration of Independence’s word “Men” in that document, literally? 🤔
Abrar Hussain Shah , False, women didn’t get the right to vote until the 1920s. So how were women treated EQUALLY, by the LAW, if they couldn’t vote in the 1860s??
@@lukewarme9121 Actually, women , nationwide, were granted the right to vote in time to cast their ballots in the 1920 Presidential election, in which Warren Harding was elected. And before 1870, one of the Western states granted women the vote.
What are you american women are whinning for when all the freedom is in you?
David Blaskie - so women could vote ‘nationally’ before 1870? Show me a reference.
David Blaskie - WOW, 1889 is the first time women could vote in a State. Lots longer than before 1870. Let’s stick with the 1920s. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wyoming-legislators-write-the-first-state-constitution-to-grant-women-the-vote
Molly 's goal was to marry a president. Imagine if she married Stephen A instead.
President Trump is the only one that's coming the closest to Lincoln
Needs to talk about the Illinois antebellum Black Codes he supported and the Corwin Amendment he wrote. He was merely the pupett of Edwin Stanton and Samuel Barlow, their front man.
Karl Burkhalter The thing about life is that you get to make mistakes, learn from them and CHANGE YOUR MIND/OPINION. That’s the beauty of GOD. Since you’re pointing fingers I’m sure you’ve made only righteous and just decisions, correct?
@Brad Watson Lincoln worked for Stanton in 1850s in McCormick Reaper Case
Abraham Lincoln Was a black man.💫👇✨️
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes--no other marks or brands recollected. From Dec. 20, 1859 autobiography by Abraham Lincoln.
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Omg...the democrats chants are the same today as 200 yrs ago. They haven't moved forward at all..ha.
Excellent!
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