Essay Sample on John Smith & Abraham Lincoln: Explorers & Statesmen

Introduction

John Smith was an English author, adventurer, explorer and soldier. He was known for his love for exploring the world, and he was accountable for the survival and settlement of Jamestown. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement of England in America. He was born in 1580 and died in 1631 with an age of 51 years. Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician and Statesman. From 1861 Lincoln was elected as the 16th President but he was murdered on the year 1865. Abraham died at the age of 56 years. This paper talks about the Speech that was given to the Virginia State Legislature by John Smith and the First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln. Two speeches were given talks about the nature of the Union and who was accountable for separating the nation.

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The people of these colonies, had the same grievances, common interests, and a joint territory, they came together and to consult each other in various forms, but they came as independent powers. According to the speech that was given by John Smith, it was legal for the Southern States to exclude themselves from the Union because they were being oppressed by the system that was developed by the Northern people (Freehling, William and Craig 2010). The system that was introduced by the government drove South Carolina to the obligation of interpolating her self-governing arrangement to arrest it. The Northern people joined the companies of commerce and manufacture so that they could gain self-support, and the revenue that was being generated was to be preserved so that it could meet the growing demands of the government. The Government later introduced a system of tasks that were discriminative and partial, to those who produced the exports and who bought their imports. Since the South was one of the biggest exporters and a customer of the imports, the revenue burden fell upon them, and this system affected them negatively. The people of the south said that it was not a government policy to tax one state so that it could build another. John said as the Northern States grew more powerful and wealthy, they began to destroy the resources of the south where they acquired their wealth from.

According to Abraham Lincoln, the state could break away from the union because the citizens of the Southern States had a fear that that their personal security, peace and property was endangered (Lincoln 1861). Even though the people of the South had fear, Lincoln told assured them that there was no need for apprehension because he added protection which was to be in the constitution, and for their property to be given away, it had to be lawfully demanded. Some of the views that Lincoln had on the South is that no State can secede itself from the Union, upon its peculiar ordinary motion. Upon the view of the constitution and the rules, Abraham considered that the Union was still together, and he also suggested that all the rules of the Union should be implemented in all States.

The people of the South did not want Abraham Lincoln to be the president because the Southerners thought Slavery was right, but Lincoln wanted it to be eliminated. Upon doing this, Lincoln believed that the Union would defend and preserve itself constitutionally, and by doing so, there was no need for violence or bloodshed. Lincoln also said that the people who own the South are the ones who occupy it. Abraham also told the citizens of the South that they could not physically separate themselves from slaves or build a wall between them, so they had to be united. The duties of Abraham Lincoln is that the Commander in chief of the Navy and the Army, without defining the state of the position. With this role, Lincoln was directly involved in the Civil war. He was also accountable for the implementation and execution of laws that were formed by Congress.

Conclusion

Although the two speeches that given by John Smith and Abraham Lincoln were different and they had different views about the nature of the Union, they explain to us who was accountable for separating the nation. The speech of John Smith was based upon preserving the Slavery System, but Abraham Lincoln did not want to preserve it because he was a Republican, but he rather freed the slaves.

Works Cited

Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861." Washington, DC (1861).

Freehling, William W., and Craig M. Simpson, eds. Showdown in Virginia: The 1861 Convention and the Fate of the Union. University of Virginia Press, 2010.