is this a good intro about lincoln?

is this a good intro about lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln also know as “Honest Abe” was the 16th President of the United States of America. President Lincoln was born in County, Kentucky and was President during the Civil War. Lincoln as a Republican spent five years of this reuniting America through out Civil War. As a crisis leader, Lincoln showed great leadership skills with the Second Inaugural Address. As for relationship of Congress he help draft the 13th Amendment. In regards to his vision of America, he made it clear to help in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln succeeded in promoting an equal justice and opportunity for all with his Emancipation Proclamation. To a large extent as President Abraham Lincoln excelled in the areas of crisis leadership, vision/agenda of America, relations with Congress, and mostly pursuit of equal justice for all.

Answer by Hamburger
It reads more like a synopsis of a paper than an introduction. Rather than enumerating all of his achievements, you should keep it to more of a “preview.” You should definitely introduce him as the 16th president and state that he was president during the Civil War. Your point about his “promoting equal justice (leave out the “an”) and opportunity for all” is a good one to keep in the intro.

Your last sentence is a great one–this reads like a preview of the paper to come. From this sentence, I would expect paragraphs proving to me that Lincoln was all of the things and did all of the things you list in this sentence. These later paragraphs, as evidence, will include specific achievements, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment, and his inaugural and Gettysburg addresses.

The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln’s Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America

In this compelling narrative, renowned historian Roy Morris, Jr., expertly offers a new angle on two of America’s most towering politicians and the intense personal rivalry that transformed both them and the nation they sought to lead in the dark days leading up to the Civil War.

For the better part of two decades, Stephen Douglas was the most famous and controversial politician in the United States, a veritable “steam engine in britches.” Abraham Lincoln was merely Douglas’s most persistent rival within their adopted home state of Illinois, known mainly for his droll sense of humor, bad jokes, and slightly nutty wife.

But from the time they first set foot in the Prairie State in the early 1830s, Lincoln and Douglas were fated to be political competitors. The Long Pursuit tells the dramatic story of how these two radically different individuals rose to the top rung of American politics, and how their personal rivalry shaped and altered the future of the nation during its most convulsive era. Indeed, had it not been for Douglas, who served as Lincoln’s personal goad, pace horse, and measuring stick, there would have been no Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, no Lincoln presidency in 1860, and perhaps no Civil War six months later. For both men—and for the nation itself—the stakes were that high.

Not merely a detailed political study, The Long Pursuit is also a compelling look at the personal side of politics on the rough-and-tumble western frontier. It shows us a more human Lincoln, a bare-knuckles politician who was not above trading on his wildly inaccurate image as a humble “rail-splitter,” when he was, in fact, one of the nation’s most successful railroad attorneys. And as the first extensive biographical study of Stephen Douglas in more than three decades, the book presents a long-overdue reassessment of one of the nineteenth century’s more compelling and ultimately tragic figures, the one-time “Little Giant” of American politics.

List Price: $ 24.95

Price: $ 4.09

Catholic & Jesuit insurgency and a presidents warnnig?
“The presidents of the north and south would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the jesuits, if they could learn how the priests, the monks and the nuns, who daily land on our shores under the pretext of preaching religion…are nothing but emissaries of the pope, of Napoleon III, and other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain and wherever people want to be free”

President Abraham Lincoln

Fifty Years in the Church of Rome,
Charles Chiniquy p499

Looks like somone famous knew the agenda of the catholic church

Looks like somone one tried to warn us about the catholic church based on their activities in spain and in Mexico and ireland which were not always republics, until the catholic church had dealt with them

What do you guys make of his quote?
So common that they shot him?
ExcommuinicateD: Yes after spilling thje beans, or asking too many questions people are normally excommunicated

Answer by Wounded Duck
It was common knowledge then.

Answer by fallenaway
Shame on you for repeating an ancient slander. Lincoln never said such a thing; an ex-Catholic Priest fabricated the lie.

Answer by Aleria
This quote is false and has been proven false time and time again. If you don’t believe me, then here are some sites:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0011rh (this is mainly about the quote)

http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/lincoln_writings.html (this is about the alleged assassinations planned by Jesuit priests)

http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/Friend.html (this site shows Lincoln was NOT anti-Catholic)

Please do your research first, you might save yourself some time and learn something.

Answer by imacatholic2
Everything that the Presidents of the United States say in public or writes is recorded in public sources.

Can you find this alleged quote in one responsible public source?

No one has yet.

The excommunicated ex-Catholic priest Charles Chiniquy is not considered a responsible public source.

http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/

With love in Christ.

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