As leader of the new Republican Party, Lincoln was considered politically moderate, even on the issue of slavery. He advocated the restriction of slavery to the states in which it already existed and described the practice in a letter as a minor issue as late as In an senatorial race, as secessionist sentiment brewed among the southern states, he warned, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
He did not win the Senate seat but earned national recognition as a strong political force. As a presidential candidate in the election of , Lincoln tried to reassure slaveholding interests that although he favored abolition, he had no intention of ending the practice in states where it already existed and prioritized saving the Union over freeing enslaved people.
When he won the presidency by approximately , popular votes and carried the Electoral College , he was in effect handed a ticking time bomb. His concessions to slaveholders failed to prevent South Carolina from leading other states in an exodus from the Union that began shortly after his election. Soon after, the Civil War began. As the war progressed, Lincoln moved closer to committing himself and the nation to the abolitionist movement and, in , finally signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
The document freed enslaved people in the Confederate states, but did not address the legality of slavery in Missouri , Kansas , or Arkansas , or what was then the Nebraska Territory. As a young man, he impressed others with his sheer physical strength—he was a legendary wrestler in Illinois—and entertained friends and strangers alike with his dry, folksy wit, which was still in evidence years later.
Exasperated by one Civil War military defeat after another, Lincoln wrote to a lethargic general if you are not using the army I should like to borrow it for awhile. He admitted to friends and colleagues that he suffered from intense melancholia and hypochondria most of his adult life.
Perhaps in order to cope with it, Lincoln engaged in self-effacing humor, even chiding himself about his famously homely looks. When an opponent in an Senate race debate called him two-faced, he replied, If I had another face do you think I would wear this one?
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