Which US President was known as 'The Rail-Splitter' and 'The Great Emancipator'?
Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps Davis in the Confederate states, nine U.S. presidents had Civil War experience. Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most commemorated of the Civil War generation on U.S. postage. Pictured here as his statue in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. 1958 issue. In the 2009 issue of 42-cent Lincoln stamps, Lincoln was pictured in four stages of life: as rail-splitter, as lawyer, as politician, and as president. 2009 issue. Lincoln was elected in 1860 and won reelection in 1864, the first president since Andrew Jackson to do so. The Confederacy initiated hostilities while he was seeking to "hold, occupy and possess",
The Emancipator in 1932. The Emancipator The Emancipator was an American newspaper founded in 1819 by Elihu Embree, the son of a Quaker minister, as the "Manumission Intelligencier", and was an abolitionist newspaper in Jonesborough, Tennessee. It was published from April 1820 to October 1820, when publication ceased due to Embree's illness, and then sold to Benjamin Lundy in 1821, when it became "The Genius of Universal Emancipation". The editor was Theodore Dwight Weld. "The Emancipator" was devoted to the abolition of slavery, in this, it was the first newspaper in the United States "The Emancipator" was reprinted by B. H. Murphy