Happy Birthday to the Great Abraham Lincoln

There have been many leaders throughout American history, but just two were so exemplary and important that their celebrations have become vacations. One of those is Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, whose holiday celebration is now.

Lincoln again remarked,” Character is like a branch and standing like a ghost. The trees is the real thing, and the darkness is what we think of it. In his situation, his trees towers up to the heavens, next only to Washington’s, and his dark stretches to our own time. To the prisoners he freed and the military people he led to win, he really seemed a Heaven-sent message, because for all his flaws and mistakes, he was willing to sacrifice everything for fairness, perhaps his life.

However, Lincoln’s assassination by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth, who decided to death the president after receiving him&nbsp, show support for black civil rights, was one of the greatest tragedies in our past. In the place of Republican Lincoln, Racist Democrat Andrew Johnson slammed Reconstruction and stifled legal right. As General&nbsp, and afterward President U. S. Grant said of Lincoln, he was the “greatest I have always known and the day of his death the saddest of my living”.

One of the greatest scenes in the 1939 Oscar-winning film” Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is when the youthful, idealistic, newly-appointed Senator Smith ( Jimmy Stewart ) arrives in Washington, D. C., and rushes out for some sightseeing. After arousingly touring the city’s main landmarks, including the Capitol, Smith arrives at the pinnacle and marks the conclusion of his unexpected journey: the Lincoln Memorial. He watches a small boy read the Gettysburg Address from the roof while starry-eyed and in shock as he stands before the enormous monument of Lincoln.

&nbsp, An old black man techniques, takes off his helmet, and stands listening with his head held high and happy. Smith looks from the child and his father to the black gentleman, to Lincoln, and he understands, once again, as he did during his career, Lincoln has brought up Americans of different generations, races, and backgrounds. The second impresses Smith so much that when the lies, the false news, the bone and the ambition, the problem, and the back-stabbing of D. C. threaten to destroy him, he returns to the Lincoln Memorial, where his companion convinces him to take up the battle again. Smith salutes Lincoln as he leaves, from that president, he has taken increased devotion to the cause for which Lincoln gave the last full measure of devotion: liberty.

Or, perhaps, take a true story instead of a fictional one to illustrate Lincoln’s greatness. In April 1865, Lincoln came to visit the captured Confederate capital of Richmond, Va. Although many white city residents detested him, some locals on his welcoming committee were made up of slaves who Lincoln had given the first time in their lives the chance to be free. A dozen black laborers dropped their tools when Lincoln arrived on the shore. ” Bless the Lord, here is the great messiah”! cried one elderly man, falling to his knees in front of Lincoln.

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But Lincoln was a true American. ” Don’t kneel to me”, he said earnestly. ” That is not right. You must kneel to God only, &nbsp, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy”. So the president and his son moved through the streets of Richmond, patrolled by black troops and followed by newly freed slaves, who shouted,” Bless the Lord, Father Abraham’s Come”! Lincoln later turned to address his admirers:” You are free — free as air … Liberty is your birthright. It is wrong that you haven’t had access to it for so long because God gave it to you like he did to other people.

Yes, it was a sin, one of the darkest in America’s history. Lincoln never fully grasped how evil slavery was, but he eventually came to terms with it, in contrast to the Democrats and Confederates, who became more and more hostile toward slavery as the war progressed. Whenever you read a Democrat/Confederate critique of Lincoln, whenever you read a Richmond politician’s or Fredericksburg lady’s mourning about “losing our freedom” to Union troops, remember that their slaves wept with joy when Abraham Lincoln arrived, because for the first time in their lives, they were free — free as air, and their birthright of liberty had been given them.

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