Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. What is he known for? What made him so great?
He is regarded as one of America’s greatest heroes in the course of American history especially due to his role as savior of the Union and emancipator of enslaved people. They say that his distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy.
He is famous for the Gettysburg Address. He bolstered the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy. At 6 foot, 4 inches, he was the tallest president. And he was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies.
The American Civil War(1861–65) is said to be the country’s greatest moral, cultural, constitutional, and political crisis. The central cause of the war was said to be the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into newly acquired land after the Mexican–American War. Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery on November 19, 1863. The Address became the most quoted speech in American history.
In 272 words, and three minutes, Lincoln asserted that the nation was born not in 1789, but in 1776, “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”. He defined the war as dedicated to the principles of liberty and equality for all. He declared that the future of democracy would be assured, that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”.
What if Abraham Lincoln stayed in and looked around Memphis in 2021 by means of a time machine? He may think or say “Oh, I may be wrong”. Why may he think that way?
Because the local governments around Memphis don’t seem to be such governments “of the people, by the people, and for the people“, especially “for the people”. A lot of Memphians think that local governments just don’t care about the local people. Those vocabulraries like ‘power’, ‘money’, and/or ‘corruption’ seem to occupy room for ‘the local people’.
So it is our argument that Abraham Lincoln may be wrong AT LEAST IN MEMPHIS.
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Published: September 16, 2021