Lincoln: The Road to Martyrdom
“The imperfect nature of human beings meant that actions motivated by ignorance, greed and selfishness could produce setbacks or detours in the achievement of divine intention”. Indeed slavery does produce setbacks in the progress of divine intention, but one single man would change this in our course of history that man is Abraham Lincoln. Although not every man would’ve supported his actions he would still become a martyr in American history for abolishing slavery. He was the only man that had the power to end slavery and the emancipation proclamation would give him the power to abolish slavery, however not without a fight. Everyone today knows that Abraham Lincoln was a man who opposed slavery his whole …show more content…
His rival Stephen A. Douglas also had some strong view points on slavery however they were very different from that of Lincoln. Although Lincoln appears to be the more solemn of the two seeing how he is portrayed in sculpture and busts, it was actually Stephen A. Douglas who was the more reserved man when it came to talking about and debating slavery, not the brazen Abraham Lincoln who is more outspoken and rebellious than he really seems. While Abraham Lincoln believed that a house divided against itself could not stand (he was referring to opponents and advocates of slavery in this quote), Douglas believed that house divided COULD stand as it was, divided into free and slave states that is however this does not mean that Douglas was for slavery. If anything Lincoln’s greatest rival actually had a neutral attitude towards the delicate topic known as slavery. Unfortunately for Stephen his decision to be neutral towards slavery and not really be one sided on slavery meaning either support the south or the north, is what ultimately caused him to lose the presidential election of 1860. Lincoln’s one sided viewpoint and power to move the northerners earned him the win for this historic
“The imperfect nature of human beings meant that actions motivated by ignorance, greed and selfishness could produce setbacks or detours in the achievement of divine intention”. Indeed slavery does produce setbacks in the progress of divine intention, but one single man would change this in our course of history that man is Abraham Lincoln. Although not every man would’ve supported his actions he would still become a martyr in American history for abolishing slavery. He was the only man that had the power to end slavery and the emancipation proclamation would give him the power to abolish slavery, however not without a fight. Everyone today knows that Abraham Lincoln was a man who opposed slavery his whole …show more content…
His rival Stephen A. Douglas also had some strong view points on slavery however they were very different from that of Lincoln. Although Lincoln appears to be the more solemn of the two seeing how he is portrayed in sculpture and busts, it was actually Stephen A. Douglas who was the more reserved man when it came to talking about and debating slavery, not the brazen Abraham Lincoln who is more outspoken and rebellious than he really seems. While Abraham Lincoln believed that a house divided against itself could not stand (he was referring to opponents and advocates of slavery in this quote), Douglas believed that house divided COULD stand as it was, divided into free and slave states that is however this does not mean that Douglas was for slavery. If anything Lincoln’s greatest rival actually had a neutral attitude towards the delicate topic known as slavery. Unfortunately for Stephen his decision to be neutral towards slavery and not really be one sided on slavery meaning either support the south or the north, is what ultimately caused him to lose the presidential election of 1860. Lincoln’s one sided viewpoint and power to move the northerners earned him the win for this historic