Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Finish:10-pack From China in a Series

From China in a Series of Views by George Newenham Wright

Sir Cecil Wray is standing between a Chelsea Pensioner and a servant-maid

also showing traffic in street

Illustration of the process of heckling hemp to separate the plant fibres

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States Finish:10-pack From China in a SeriesAbraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1860s. 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 Wilkes