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Abraham Lincoln's Rebellion In The United States
“I can’t bring myself to believe that anyone has shot at me or will deliberately shoot at me with the deliberate purpose of killing me.”(Abraham Lincoln Was) Lincoln's own words, everyone loved Lincoln, well after he was dead, after America was finally done with that scythian, dictator, idiotic, squeaking, gorilla-like, lame excuse for a president. There were so many people deliberately shooting at Lincoln literally and figuratively, that one day, the Surratts, Herold, Powell, Booth, and Atzerodt took our 16th president’s life, and their own in the process.

Lincoln was a model wartime president, yet he was a dictator nonetheless. In his presidency, Lincoln imprisoned 14,401 Union citizens for speaking out against the cause of the war, against
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Lincoln became an American dictator. Lincoln, in an effort to cease rebellion in union states ignored the Habeas Corpus, a citizen's right to a trial, a citizen's right to justice. In a certain case the New York Journal of Commerce published a section of it’s paper disrespecting President Lincoln. This act was seen as a chance to spark rebellion, the men who edited, published, and wrote in this paper were immediately arrested for treason and directly placed in prison, no trial, no rights, no freedom. These tyrannical acts would happen time and time again throughout Lincoln's reign, exactly like his decision to subdue the Fifth and Second Amendment. (Abraham Lincoln: Executive, Abraham Lincoln …show more content…
Born in Randolph County, Alabama; Paine’s father, a well known Alabaman preacher and missionary, would never have guessed his son would would grow up to plot a murder. As a young child, Paine was kicked in the face by a farming mule, breaking his jaw and knocking out a molar. Paine was home educated, allowing the family to move from farm to farm, eventually landing them in Live Oak, Florida when Paine was fifteen years-old. Eventually, in the conspirators eighteenth year, Paine enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, he was instantly his regiments best ranger. His connection to the army was what got Paine on Booth’s team. As a Southern sympathizer, not a fighter, Booth needed a soldier to work with him and one just so happened to live at a local D.C. boarding house. Paine and Booth went together like beans and rice, they were like brothers up until those very last moments of death. (N.p,

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