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Lincoln was not only a political moralist of the greatest degree, but he also had an inborn talent in the Machiavellian arrangement of power. This is a very extraordinary combination of characteristics. It gave the antislavery cause the type of strategic foresight that was all too frequently deficient in abolitionism.
Abraham Lincoln is born: Feb. 12, 1809. Abraham Lincoln, who would hold the Union together through a blood-soaked Civil War as the nationâs 16th president, was born on this day in 1809 in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. As the conflict raged more than 50 years later, Lincoln insisted that work on the U.S. Capitol Dome continue.