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[[File:Abraham Lincoln O-77 matte collodion print.jpg|thumb | [[File:Abraham Lincoln O-77 matte collodion print.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address]] | ||
The archetype of America’s emergent Christhood through a path of individualism, '''Abraham Lincoln''', was born in humble surroundings in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky. As president he fought to preserve the Union. His secondary goal was to free the Negro slaves, although he said he would not free them at the expense of the Union. He was opposed by business and financial interests in both the North and South. | The archetype of America’s emergent Christhood through a path of individualism, '''Abraham Lincoln''', was born in humble surroundings in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky. As president he fought to preserve the Union. His secondary goal was to free the Negro slaves, although he said he would not free them at the expense of the Union. He was opposed by business and financial interests in both the North and South. | ||
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An undocumented source says that during his second term in office Lincoln planned to repeal the National Bank Act or restrict the powers it had granted bankers. Had Lincoln repealed this privilege, banks would have lost a huge money-making opportunity. | An undocumented source says that during his second term in office Lincoln planned to repeal the National Bank Act or restrict the powers it had granted bankers. Had Lincoln repealed this privilege, banks would have lost a huge money-making opportunity. | ||
[[File:Edwin McMasters Stanton Secretary of War.jpg|thumb|Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, one of the conspirators in the assassination plot]] | [[File:Edwin McMasters Stanton Secretary of War.jpg|thumb|upright|Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, one of the conspirators in the assassination plot]] | ||
== The assassination plot == | == The assassination plot == | ||