Young Abe: From Log Cabin to White House
Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. He had almost no formal schooling but rose to become the 16th President of the United States. Allen Guelzo, author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, shares the remarkable journey of this remarkable man.
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If the best of America could be embodied in one man, that man would be Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.
Born on February 12, 1809, Lincoln lived his early years in a log cabin with a dirt floor. He described his childhood and adolescence in Kentucky and later Indiana in bleak terms, as “the backside of this world.”
His father, Thomas Lincoln, didn’t see much practical value in formal education and his son received almost none.
But young Lincoln’s instincts pointed in an entirely different direction. He devoured every book he could get his hands on. And, aided by a near-photographic memory, he retained everything he read. His goal was always (what he called) “improvement.”
At age 19, now 6 feet 4 inches tall, he worked on flatboats carrying cargo down the Mississippi river finally settling as a store clerk in New Salem, Illinois. There, Lincoln quickly established a reputation for good humor, scrupulous honesty, and a fierce determination “to make the most of himself.”
In 1832, following a stint in the state militia, he decided to pursue a legal career.
Like many lawyers, he was drawn to politics. In 1834, he won election to the state legislature.
Lincoln endorsed the tenets of the Whig party, which had been organized by Senator Henry Clay as a breakaway from the dominant Democratic party. Clay and the Whigs supported policies which would build national commercial infrastructure like roads and canals, create a national bank to stimulate investment and expansion into the west, and build tariffs around struggling American industries to protect them from foreign competition.
For many Northern Whigs like Lincoln, slavery was also an issue; and in 1837, Lincoln made his first public statement against slavery, condemning it as “founded on injustice and bad policy.”
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to Congress to represent the newly created Seventh District in central Illinois. What he hoped would be the start of a career in national politics quickly fizzled. Lincoln criticized President James Polk, a Democrat, for goading Mexico into war. It was a principled but unpopular stance and cost him re-election.
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Thank you 🙏- Lincoln is my favorite US President ❤
Lincoln had it much harder than most Blacks have it today!
One of, if not, the worst president of USA history… oh so power hungry he consolidated the MOST amount of power to the presidency ironically taking away the MOST amount of Freedom from the people.
His main book growing up – that fueled his speeches – was the King James Bible – not one mention in your video. Shame you 've chosen to cancel Christianity
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.” ~Abraham Lincoln
Democrat slavers are a form of blood sucking vampire so of course he had to fight them. I remember seeing the documentary about it in theaters.
Not sure if this has been done already, but can there also be a follow up video on the Civil War?
This was not great. There was absolutely nothing about Lincoln's years as a Vampire Hunter. smh
Great history!
It also found a pen pal and virtual soulmate in Karl Marx.
I loved it when he slayed the vampires! Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer is amazing!
Lincoln was a Tyrant a Lier and at one time the richest railroad lawyer .
Allen Guelzo is a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University, and former Professor of American History at Eastern. That’s better than just an author of a book, as PragerU modestly introduces this presenter.
Lincoln was a terrible, maybe the worst, president.
During his 1st Inaugural Address, he pledged to keep slavery forever by signing an amendment, the Corwin Amendment, which would do so.
He hunted down escaped slaves for a living earlier in his life.
Suspended habeas corpus,
attempted to arrest the chief justice of the Supreme Court,
arrested the mayor of Baltimore and thousands of political prisoners without due process,
banished a sitting congressman from the country (Velandekamp of Ohio),
shut down newspapers competitive with his own,
invaded states with the army without a declaration of war,
used the military against the civilian population,
and much, much more.
The man was a monster and deserves none of this hero-worship sophistry.
So, The Democrats lost their mind over a lost election and it imminently led to civil war. Interesting how they will still do anything over a lost election to get back into power.
Obviously he forgot to mention that he was a homosexual…
This video is pure propaganda. It is almost entirely false. There should be a special place in hell reserved for all who created this crap.
Lincoln was one of the worst presidents.
It's amazing to think that GOP used to be the best party in america
You can tell from some of the comments that the American Communist Party is proud of their achievements. Masters of Lies. Just like their dad.
Lincoln is responsible for the death of many Americans at the hands of other Americans.
He had one of those 7 debates in my home town Quincy, Illinois. We have a big metal statue in memoriam of it.
Impressive, even without any mention of his secert war against the vampires.
Slavery was to be abolished in the original writings of the Declaration of Independence but you can thank a couple colonies refusal to agree to that so it was removed.
So Lincoln was a republican. Why don't people know that?
From Log Cabin to Emperor.
It's good that more people now see Lincoln for the tyrant that he was.
Thank you Razorfist.
Lincoln was a tyrant and a dictator, not a hero worthy of worship. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
Abe was anti-slavery his entire life. The people in the comments angry because he wasn't anti-slavery enough need to look at the actions possible at the time.
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