Why Abraham Lincoln was the Best President

Recently 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the nation's best president. Bush was rated 36th out of 42Here is why Lincoln was the best...He understood the root of the problem.

How does Barach Obama compare to Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln hit the nail on the head and said what needed to be said. Obama should say the same thing again. The big problem today is that we don't really understand what the real problem is. Obama has chosen to be sworn in with his hand on Lincoln's Bible. Drastic times call for decisive leadership. At the Inauguration of Obama he should show the courage Lincoln showed in giving This Proclaimation on March 30th, 1863 represents what Obama should say now.


By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.

All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.




By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day

Washington, D.C. - March 30, 1863

Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30. - Main purpose calling for prayer, humility, and fasting.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• 65 Historians

[supereldinho]

The only reason I think he was the best is because from what I've seen form your nice nation's presidents, he's the only one who did a good thing. And how you show your appreciation by killing him gives me more reason to say he was the only good president in US history.

[MikeSears100]

Lincoln, in my opinion was the 2nd WORST President of all time.

[asull822]

@94msueng No, Lincoln was a tyrant who threatened to invade the states for practicing their right to voluntarily leaving the union just as they had voluntarily joined it.

[longfootbuddy]

@S2Cents the only actions i take, is to speak out about whats happened, in hopes that people may take notice of the truth of things, rather than continuing to believe false history, think irrationally, and blindly fall into the trap of evil that is disguised as good... and i pray that god will put an end to the evil, and remove the blindness that covers the minds of the people that defend this evil...it is evil to justify the enslavement of good men, based on the insanity of others

[S2Cents]

@longfootbuddy Well so there it is...  Practical solutions? Parties, movements, actions of any sort?

[longfootbuddy]

@S2Cents well, obviously they create a tyrannical goverment that forces us all into obedience and denies us all our rights of freedom

[S2Cents]

@longfootbuddy What happens when most people seem to require government and you live in the same country as them?

[longfootbuddy]

@S2Cents i require no goverment whatsoever.. i believe in goverment only for those that consent to be governed.. but if a man denies another man's freedom, or reasonably harms him or his property, i believe men are justified in using force against the ONE that commited the crimes, whether its the victim, or a body of men that are acting for the victim, WITH HIS CONSENT.. so therefore, i am more in favor of a land of law that preserves freedom, rather than a goverment that rules us as slaves

[S2Cents]

@longfootbuddy Which of the standard labels commonly used to describe political outlook best describes you? I ask because your reply leaves open the possibility of being on either end of the 'political spectrum'.

[longfootbuddy]

@S2Cents no, i despise the union of tyranny, and its tool of enforcement.. this goverment is a corporation that has destroyed freedom in the land... i love this land, and many of the inhabitants, but i will rejoice when this devil of a goverment that has hijacked the people is destroyed...local goverment isnt much better.. they have set up systems of control and oppression much like the central goverment.. REAL change is needed.. but most people have been cond. to be defenders of their slavery