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NOTE: This section
contains biographical lexigrams.
Each section is separated by a line. The lexigram text is
CAPITALIZED. The narrative back-story is in
italics. These original
lexigrams are ©2007, Steve Miller, Intrinsic Development.
BORN IN A CABIN IN HARDIN TO
THOMAS LINCOLN, A CARPENTER.
Lincoln
was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County,
Kentucky. His father's name was Thomas Lincoln, a carpenter.
RAISED BAPTIST; RESIDE IN
INDIANA, ILLINOIS.
Lincoln's
parents belonged to faction of the Baptist Church that disapproved of
slavery. His family moved to Indiana in 1816, then to Illionis in 1830.
ELECTED CAPTAIN IN
SALEM
After he moved out on his own, he served briefly in the
New Salem War, where he was elected Captain of his volunteer unit.
LOST IN ILLINOIS STATE SENATE;
LATER ELECTED TO A TERM ON MAIN ISSUE THAT SMALL, PASTORAL AREAS NEED
ROADS, CANALS, HARBORS, AND RAILROADS.
He
was unsuccessful when he ran for the state legislature in 1832, yet in
1834 he was elected to the lower house as a Whig. His first
platform announced that "Time and experience... verified... that the
poorest and most thinly populated countries would be greatly benefitted
by the opening of good roads, and in the clearing of navigable
streams... There cannot justly be any objection to having rail roads
and canals."
AT HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, STATES SECEDE
Prior
to his election in 1861, seven states had seceded from the Union.
CAROLINA HITS A NATIONAL BASTION
IN CHARLESTON HARBOR. THIS REBELLION, AN INTERSTATE BATTLE, BEGINS.
MERCENARIAN BREECHLOADER BATALLIONS TO DESOLATE DIXIE HOMESTEADS,
BROTHERS TO DECAPITATE BROTHERS, ALIENATION AND DEMONIC HATRED TO
CREATE HEADSTONES LINED FOR MILES.
Against
the advice of a majority of his cabinet, the new president decided to
send provisions to Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Sumter
was conspicous in that it was a symbol of federal authority in a state
which had seceded. On April 12, 1861, South Carolina fired on the fort,
and the Civil War began.
ON THIS CONTINENT, OUR PARENTS RAISED A CHILD-NATION, BORN OF LIBERTIES
AND ALLIED TO THE IDEAL THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED THE SAME.
In
his Gettysburg Address, given in Pennsylvania in 1863, Lincoln spoke
"Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal."
THE REBEL LEADER
ROBERT E LEE ABDICATES
Robert
E. Lee surrendered to federal forces at the Appotmatax Court House in
Virgina in 1865.
IN APRIL, NEAR HIS SIXTIETH
CELEBRATION, AT AN AMERICAN THEATRE, AN ACTOR ENTERED THE PRESIDENTIAL
BOX AND SHOT LINCOLN.
On
Apr. 14, 1865, Lincoln attended a performance of Our American Cousin at
Ford's Theatre in Washington. There Booth entered the presidential box
and shot Lincoln. The next morning at 7:22 Lincoln died. He
was 56 years old.
IHONEST ABE, THE ILLINOIS RAIL-SPLITTER, BECAME THE PREEMINENT AMERICAN EMANCIPATIONIST AND STATESMAN.
Enough said.
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