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Feb 6, 2024 · After varying degrees of success as a public servant on the state level, Trumbull found himself in the U.S. Senate in 1855 after a close election in which an up-and-coming Abraham Lincoln instructed his supporters to cast their votes for Trumbull. The prior year, 1854, was accepted as a pivotal one in antebellum America.
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In June 1856, at Lincoln's urging, Trumbull attended the first Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Trumbull and Lincoln agreed to promote a conservative candidate for the presidential nomination, but it went to the more radical John C. Frémont, who had faint hope of victory.
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Abraham Lincoln was a pragmatist in the use of power. Winston Churchill wrote that Lincoln was anxious to keep the ship on an even keel and steer a steady course, he may lean all his weight now on one side and now on the other. His arguments in each case when contrasted can be show to be not only very different in character, but contradictory in sp...
Mr. Lincoln was also an idealist who believed that power must be exercised with principle. In July 1858, Mr. Lincoln wrote out some notes for a campaign speech. His ideas were inspired by the example of English politician William Wilberforce, who spent three decades fighting to end the English slave trade.: I have never professed an indifference to...
As a young man, Mr. Lincoln had been anxious to make his mark on the world. He admitted as much when he made his first run for office. But ambition must always be tempered by law and respect for community opinion. In 1838, he gave the first major, reported speech of his career before the Young Mens Lyceum of Springfield. The focus of the Perpetuati...
As this Lyceum speech indicated, Mr. Lincoln was very cognizant of the abuses of power either by a mob or a dictator. Political scientist Waller R. Newell wrote: While in his youthful Lyceum speech he may have flirted, at least in his imagination, with the idea of the great man who enslaves rather than liberates, the argument he used to rout his o...
Lincoln was a Whig and therefore had a limited view of presidential powers but he nevertheless admired President Andrew Jacksons strong leadership. Historian Gabor Boritt wrote that Lincolns marriage to the Whig view of the presidency becameone of conviction, which he kept on nurturing through the antebellum years. The large fruits this bore becam...
In preserving the Union, Lincoln relied on his obeisance to the law and the Constitution. Historian Mackubin T. Owens wrote that For Lincoln, the Union and the Constitution that he sought to save were not ends in themselves but the means to something else. He saw the Constitution principally as a framework for sharing power within a republican gove...
Lincoln responded to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12-13, 1861, by issuing a proclamation which mobilized 75,000 troops to confront the rebellion. The president postponed calling Congress back into session to deal with the crisis until July 4. For nearly three months at the beginning of the war, Lincoln acted without congressional ...
The powers of the federal government were not fully developed at the beginning of the Civil War. Inevitably, Lincoln would break new executive ground with his limited White House staff of three assistants. Historian David M. Potter wrote that in 1861, there were few ways in which the Federal government exercised a direct authority, few functions wh...
The Civil War was a test of the powers of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Each branch sought to preserve and extend the boundaries of its powers. Historian Michael Burlingame contended: Lincoln violated the explicit provision of the Constitution empowering Congress to raise armies. On July 1, 1861, Lincoln explained to Lyman Trumb...
President Lincoln had to manage three major transitions in the early months of his administration. The most obvious change was secession of southern states and the ensuing Civil War. The second was the Republican Partys expectations for political patronage after eight years of Democratic rule. Lincoln had been circumspect about patronage before his...
In The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860, Leonard Richards detailed how completely southerners ruled the government in the period before the Civil War. He noted that southerners occupied the presidency for over two-thirds of that period. A similar proportion of Speakers of the House and Senate presidents pro tempore wer...
On issues concerning war and reunion, Lincoln insisted on being the supreme commander. He was jealous of presidential prerogatives. He refused to yield key decisions on the war and emancipation to either Congress or army generals. President Lincoln kept control of the slavery issue through a series of deft maneuvers beginning with his rejection of...
Later, Yates witnessed how President Lincoln dealt with his most strong-willed subordinate, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, a man who once had insulted Lincoln when they were co-counsels in an Ohio trial. John M. Snyder recalled an incident in which the President first tried persuasion and when that failed, resorted to power in order to get his ...
Would it exonerate Douglas that Trumbull didn’t then perceive he was in the plot? He also asks the question: Why didn’t Trumbull propose to amend the bill if he thought it needed any amendment? Why, I believe that every thing Judge Trumbull had proposed, particularly in connection with this question of Kansas and Nebraska, since he had been ...
Jun 26, 2016 · The revolt of Douglas had thrown the political scene into con-. fusion during the early months of 1858. Out of favor, now, in the South, and at swords' points with the Buchanan administration, he appeared to be cutting loose from his old Democratic moorings and drifting toward the Republican shore.
What evidence did Lincoln provide to support his allegation that there was a conspiracy to make slavery national? How did Douglas and Lincoln approach the Dred Scott decision? How did Douglas appeal to racial prejudice against Lincoln?
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Born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1813 to a prominent political family, Lyman Trumbull studied law in Greenville, Georgia, before moving to Illinois to establish a practice and enter politics. He served as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1848 to 1853. Trumbull was a leading ...
