Ocupation: 16th U.S. President
Life: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Birthday: February 12
Death: April 15
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.
source: Letter to Albert G. Hodges, 4 Apr. 1864
topic: Thinking, Feelings, Civil War, American Slavery, Anti Slavery, Slavery In America