facts about abe lincoln?

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Answer 1

Some facts on how he was a left-winger (nothing like today's southern conservative Republican Party):

- He passed the first income tax in 1861 and made it progressive in 1862.
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

- He believed labor was superior to capital. Theodore Roosevelt, PROGRESSIVE Republican, quoted him on that and expected to be called a communist after he said it
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/31.htm

- He exchanged correspondence with Karl Marx in which Marx congratulated Lincoln on his re-election and supported his war agains the South as part of the worker's revolution
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

- Karl Marx wrote another letter to Johnson over Lincoln's assasination. He called Lincoln one of the rare men who succeeded in becoming great without ceasing to be good.
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1865/johnson-letter.htm

- The party he belonged to was referred by southerners as the "Radical Republican Party" because they believed the party was being too extreme with them over reconstruction.

- This Radical Republican Party was based in the socially liberal northeast and led by such men as Charles Sumner from MASSACHUSETTS (not Mississippi).

- He expanded the power of the federal government over the states.

- According to neo-confederate conservatives, the Party of Lincoln was infested with socialists and outright communists.
http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/...

- He has been called the "American Lenin" by right-wing liberterians.
http://www.lneilsmith.org/abelenin.html

Answer 2

The Emancipation Proclamation only declared slaves to be free in territories under armed rebellion against the federal government.

Answer 3

Bush definitley did it, I heard on an internet site that i examine, that Bush met with osama bin ladin & with Dick cheny and keen to apply China's "secret" time device to bypass back and kill ole abe. Darn Bush and his negative guidelines( if you're slower- it really is all sarcasm)

Answer 4

Check Abe out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Lincoln

Answer 5

The very definition of an over achiever.

Answer 6

He had a high pitched voice, not the deep one that is culturally used

Answer 7

Possibly had Marfan's disease.

Answer 8

his wife was a herion addict .