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What's
in a nickname ?
Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, February 12
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President
of the United States, had many nicknames.
As a young man, Lincoln and a friend
borrowed money to buy a store. After only
a few months, the store went out of
business. Then Lincoln's friend died.
Lincoln worked long and hard to pay back
all the money himself. He finally did.
This helped earn him the nickname "Honest
Abe."
Another of Lincoln's nicknames was "the
Railsplitter." This nickname
recalled the days when, as a young man,
Lincoln had split logs to make fence
rails.
Lincoln became President in 1861. Soon,
war began between the Northern and
Southern (or Confederate) states. One
reason for the war was slavery. The South
had black slaves and wanted to keep them.
Many people in the North wanted slavery
stopped.
During the war, President Lincoln issued
a law freeing all black people living
under Confederate control. Because of
this action, Lincoln gained the nickname
"The Great Emancipator",
meaning "one who sets people free
from slavery."
The law did not really free any slaves.
Because of the war, there was no way to
force people in the South to set their
slaves free. But after the war was over,
the law of the land was changed. A new
law put an end to slavery in all parts of
the nation.
Unfortunately, Lincoln did not live to
see this new law passed. On the night of
April 14, 1865, he was shot while at the
theater. He died the next morning.
Illinois, where Lincoln lived for a long
time and where he is buried, was the
first state to make his birthday a
holiday. Most of the states that
celebrate Lincoln's birthday do so on
February 12. This is the date on which he
was born, in 1809, in a log cabin in
Kentucky.
A few states celebrate Lincoln's birthday
on the first Monday in February. Other
states combine Lincoln's and Washington's
birthdays. In these states, the
celebration-called President's Day-is
held on the third Monday in February.
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