Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I think it cannot be shown that when I have once taken a position, I have ever retreated from it.
Douglass visited the White House to ask if Lincoln was going to implement his previous position and allow Black troops to serve in the military in other than labor battalions.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), bb Statement to Frederick Douglasss, August 1863
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
