Compare And Contrast Lincoln And Nathan Bedford

Abraham Lincoln and Nathan Bedford conquered their separate struggles with two methods; words and weapons. These two men are very different, and accomplished two very different goals, but their beginnings were the same. They were both born poor, and had to work their way to the top. Many failures later, (more for Lincoln, it seemed), and the two became very powerful. One of them used his failures for good, and one for bad. It seems like all people have to choose when it comes to God-given gifts. What is the world’s goals? How should humanity be helping it’s own? Should we be assisting others at all? A human’s choices in life comes from how they were raised; Bedford and Lincoln are no different.

As is very well-known, Abraham Lincoln was born

While he was not born in a log cabin, he was born in Tennessee, very very poor. He also built himself from the ground-up using slaves to help his business and profit himself. Lincoln did not even have the opportunity to do this, as Virginia was a free state and he would not have even seen slaves around. However, the negative views toward African-Americans still persisted everywhere, so even though Lincoln was not as extreme as Forrest, he also believed in keeping the races separate. Lincoln never acted with hate. Forrest was a smart man, he also grew up with no education, but managed to learn a few things by studying them. He, unlike Lincoln, was not fazed by murder and killed two men when he was only a teenager, in an intense revenge scheme. Who knows what Lincoln would have done in this situation, but it can be surmised that killing two people in cold blood would not have been his first thought. Forrest owned a stagecoach company that was very successful, indeed it seems he started living the high life long before Lincoln did. He continued to participate in the cotton and slave trades, and became very wealthy. At a turning point in his life, he became a private in the army. That seems like the perfect place for such a cunning and not easily queasy man. The interesting thing about this is that he did not have to; after all, he was settled and rich. He really wanted to join, and he did