Abraham Lincoln mb-height 628 22nd January 1963

22nd January 1963

In the foreground a street seller

one by one

just as the weapon of Sir Charles Dilke turned out to be

a house on left (representing England) sinks into decrepitude

Abraham Lincoln mb-height 628 22nd January 1963Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 19th century. Lincoln (1809 1865) joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In 1863, he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti slavery views in the Gettysburg Address. During his 1864 campaign for re election, he embraced the abolition of slavery. He was infamously shot by actor John