Abraham Lincoln: The President We Needed
When Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States, he did not believe the country would soon be embroiled in a costly and bloody civil war. Allen Guelzo, author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, explains why Lincoln’s steely resolve and moral leadership were exactly what the country needed during its darkest days.
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When Abraham Lincoln came to Washington in March of 1861 following his election as the 16th President of the United States, he had no thought that the country would soon be embroiled in a costly and bloody civil war.
The slave states of the South had threatened secession in the past and always pulled back. This time, Lincoln believed, would be no different.
He was open to accommodation if it would avoid armed conflict.
But he was unshakeable on one point.
Lincoln insisted that secession was a Constitutional impossibility and that he was obligated by his presidential oath to defend the integrity of the United States.
So, when the Confederates launched their attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861, Lincoln called up federal troops and declared a naval blockade of the Southern coast.
The war was on.
And Lincoln was completely unprepared for it.
Everything went badly at first. A hastily assembled federal army met with a humiliating defeat at the first major battle of the war at Bull Run in Virginia.
More defeats followed.
But Lincoln stood firm. New armies were recruited; fresh funds were raised through taxes and bond sales, and the naval blockade was strengthened.
Gradually, the military tide turned. In the east, Union forces foiled an attempted invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania at the bitter battle of Antietam in September 1862, and a second Confederate invasion the following summer was smashed at the battle of Gettysburg.
In the west, a federal naval flotilla seized the major Confederate port of New Orleans. This was followed by Union General Ulysses Grant’s capture of the Confederate citadel on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg.
Lincoln saw in Grant a man who had the qualities to bring the war to a finish. In March 1864, he brought Grant to Washington to plan a major new offensive. Their plan was blunt, bloody, and effective: overwhelm the Confederacy with superior Union firepower. Grant pursued it relentlessly, aided by his equally relentless subordinate, William Tecumseh Sherman.
Lincoln rode the wave of Union victories to re-election in November 1864.
On April 9, 1865, the war finally came to a close with Lee surrendering to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse near Richmond, Virginia.
Lincoln rightfully deserves credit for his successful prosecution of the Civil War. What is less well known but nearly as significant are the major policy changes he introduced even while the war was being waged.
For six decades, the federal government had been dominated by the Democratic party, and by its suspicion of commerce and manufacturing. Lincoln, however, had come to political maturity in the Whig party which favored the funding of transportation infrastructure to promote commerce, a national banking network to create a stable monetary system, and tariffs to protect American industries from foreign competition.
As president, Lincoln signed legislation that implemented all three of these new directions. This along with his plan to create a transcontinental railroad set the stage for the great industrial expansion of the United States during the last three decades of the 19th century.
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No on one comment… "All the world mourned" was not true… not in the parts of Europe that supported the Confederacy because they wanted their cheap raw materials, nor their colonies, nor in the Confederacy itself…. and I am sure other parts, some of the Native American tribes and some Mexicans did not mourn.
I can’t believe that Abraham Lincoln was a GAF!!!!!!!!
Lincoln was a tyrant. In "preserving the union" he destroyed the founding and sent us down the path of the Orwellian government at our door.
Om Shanthi to the soul of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln was as close as the US ever got to having a Caeser
L'shanah tovah. Idea civil war earlier was cotton bo weevil. Weaver Nowadays civil rights. The wool baler or wolbalee nickname they're using
There is no freedom of speech on youtube or Prague
Hated,black people!
More Lincoln worship from big-government Republicans. Lincoln was the antithesis of everything this country was founded on. Licoln or Wilson…. Who was worse?
He literally invaded 11 states of his own nation. My great great great grandfather had to defend his home and city from Yankee invaders. And no he didn’t own any slaves. Either you accept the notion the CSA was its own country (in which case he had no right to invade a sovereign nation) or you acknowledge they were still part of the United States (in which case you admit Lincoln invaded his own nation). Mind you, I have no problem with this biased video. Everyone has biases. But it would be only fair to also have a video praising Jefferson Davis or Stonewall Jackson or any other Confederate hero. You had one – literally one – video giving relatively minor honor to Robert E Lee and then you took it down.
This is one of the worst progandist videos PragerU has ever put out. Just completely flimsy and riddled with holes… definitely on purpose.
Why does Prager put a U in their name? Why PragerU?
Now Liberals are the new 1930s European Jewish People
I listen to Denis Prager on a daily basis on 870am in Los Angeles. Denis says we are already in a civil war, Denis says Trump is the second greatest President in our Republic's history. And if you don't agree? he hates you. Denis hates is fellow Americans because they disagree with him, he calls the left communists and he says they are trying to destroy America. Mike Huckabee, another man of faith, as Denis, says, if Donald Trump is arrested and he loses the 2024 election, the next election will be decided by bullets, how nice hu? a man of the cloth. The right conservative and extreme movement will die of a slow self inflicted wound, due to their selection of the worst candidate in our nation''s history, and do you "U Prager followers" know who's is going to bring the demise of the party, not the Democrats, but the sane Republicans. People like Steve Schmidt, Liz cheney, people with normal rational. Denis Prager is not one of those people, and he will find a way to continue his empire of lies and deception to continue receiving millions from his followers. Denis Prager is a despicable man.
WOW, THE COMMENTS HERE, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T TEACH U. S. HISTORY THE RIGHT WAY, PROGRESSIVISM IS A DISEASE… DEMOCRATS ARE A DISEASE…
Why does Dennis pretend to be Jewish when he is actually a Christian? Because he is a liar. The saddest part is he doesn't know he's lying. He is just really dumb.
A lot of revisionist ball-washing going on here. Watch Razorfist's video on Lincoln to get the whole story
Lincoln was a dictatorial war criminal. If the RNC desires to be the party of Lincoln then they will lose myself as well as thousands more of voters like myself that truly know who Lincoln was. He was an evil war criminal who led war criminals like general Sherman and all of his murderous raping baby killing soldiers.
Fanatical southerners today need a swift kick in the pants.
I mean can you believe that they are teaching their children that slavery was a net positive, and that Lincoln was the aggressor in the Civil War?
These regressive neanderthals are letting online political demagogues teach our children to hate our nation and the diversity which makes it strong. They are going to kill us all if we don't do anything to stop them.
Quite honestly, we need a Abraham Lincoln back. Yes, he violated the 1st Amendment by not allowing newspapers to speak their opposition to the war, but this wasn’t WW1 or WW2 where the American mainland was bombed and invaded. We were fighting right on American soil. Nowadays Lincoln would outlaw the left wing media.
Where is the Prager University video saying slavery was not so bad?
sic semper tyrannis
And he also jailed any newspaper or reporter that spoke out against the civil war.
Completely violating the First Amendment.
The attack on Fort Sumter after the South had peacefully seceded and Lincoln had put more every nation and men into the fort
An outstanding scholar of U.S. history. Prager U is teaching the public from the highest levels. Good work. I'm gonna buy Guelzo's Lincoln book.
U stands for University for accredited institutions. They are not.
Today, Lincoln would be a Progressive standing up against the far right; he’d definitely be standing up to PraguerU
If he was the redeemer leader, why did you not explore his moral leadership. He didn't fight the Civil War on a legal technicality – it was a moral war over what was right and what was wrong – don't fall into the trap of our public "schools", morality exists in this world, Lincoln, Reagan were willing to fight for it
Badass!
Great history!
The anti Lincoln movement will become the next Flat Earth movement. Lincoln haters will do the job of misinformation for the democrats.
The amount of hate you can feel radiating off of these RazorFist goons is incredible. All I can think about is a human heart, its flesh blackened with decay, festering with sores, and covered in maggots.