Essay On The Differences Between Lincoln And Kennedy
President Lincoln gets down right away to talking to the Southern states, talking about that he only wants to talk about the big issue that he knows everyone cares about. He goes on to quote himself from past speeches later before this saying that he is not interested in making slavery illegal in order to prove that he has always been against using force of any type to end slavery. Continuing on, The president wants the South to know that the North will not agree to let them violate the contract by seceding from the United States. Finally, President Lincoln addresses the issue with slavery moving into the territories that were not yet states, but that would one day become states. President Lincoln continues by saying the South that he is not even interested in ending the Fugitive Slave Act which is a law made it so that any slaves escaping from a slave state to a free state were still not considered free by the government
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Lincoln was a good person as was Kennedy to getting on with it in the conversation, which people don’t see that happen anymore. Lincoln and Kennedy were facing two completely different wars at the time. Lincoln was facing the Civil War and Kennedy was face the Cold War and nuclear threats. The time in between the two presidents were very different towards the new technology coming out and the difference in slaves as well. Technology advanced very quickly back then that the threat of nuclear weapons was all over the United States. Out of the two, Lincoln was probably the wiser of them both. He took these situations well unlike the other presidents. I say this because from the way Lincoln gives his speech, which is the second one while Kennedy had one, his were great quality thought and detail to the problems of the world and how it was really necessary that they look to God and in themselves to find the answer of what they are looking for in their
Lincoln was a good person as was Kennedy to getting on with it in the conversation, which people don’t see that happen anymore. Lincoln and Kennedy were facing two completely different wars at the time. Lincoln was facing the Civil War and Kennedy was face the Cold War and nuclear threats. The time in between the two presidents were very different towards the new technology coming out and the difference in slaves as well. Technology advanced very quickly back then that the threat of nuclear weapons was all over the United States. Out of the two, Lincoln was probably the wiser of them both. He took these situations well unlike the other presidents. I say this because from the way Lincoln gives his speech, which is the second one while Kennedy had one, his were great quality thought and detail to the problems of the world and how it was really necessary that they look to God and in themselves to find the answer of what they are looking for in their