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The president of The United States * The United States has a long history, and the country has a lot of great president. Today I will tell you the story of these presidents. Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.“ Lincoln thought secession illegal, and was willing to use force to defend Federal law and the Union. When Confederate batterie fired on Fort Sumter and forced its surrender,he called on the states for 75,000 volunteers.Four more slave states joined the Confederacy but four remained within the Union. The Civil War had begun. He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys,only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A.Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. As President,He built the Republican Party into a strong national organization.Further, he rallied most of the Northern Democrats to the Union cause.On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was as sassinated at Fords Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was helping the South. The opposite was the result, for with Lincolns death, the possibility of peace with magnanimity died. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression,