Lincoln on the Abolition of Slavery

That man who thinks Lincoln calmly sat down and gathered his robes about him, waiting for the people to call him, has a very erroneous knowledge of Lincoln, wrote Abraham Lincoln\u27s long-time law partner, William Henry Herndon. He was always calculating, and always planning ahead. His ambition was a little engine that knew no rest. And in no other pursuit was Lincoln more ambitious than in politics. As a lawyer and Whig political organizer in Illinois, Politics were his life and his ambition and his motive power. [excerpt