Imagine if the president of the United States was unlikeable and rude. They would be a bad leader, unlike Abraham Lincoln, who had very good qualities. Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States, who passed the Emancipation Proclamation, won the American Civil War, and was killed by John Wilkes Booth. Throughout his life, Lincoln displayed many positive qualities, including being humble, admired, and humorous. Abraham Lincoln’s first quality is that he was humble. The poem, “Mortality,” says, “And the young and the old, and the low and the high, shall mold to dust and together shall lie” (lines 7-8). This was Lincoln’s favorite poem, and the message of it was that no matter how important people are, they still die, which is what this quote conveys. This being his favorite …show more content…
The passage states, “Chaos erupted throughout the theater.” This happens right after Lincoln is killed, and it shows that once people realized what happened, they were angry and extremely upset about his death. These pieces of evidence prove how people admired and respected Lincoln, and loved him as their leader. The last quality of Lincoln is that he had a sense of humor. In the John Wilkes Booth passage, it is mentioned that “President and Mrs. Lincoln would be attending a performance of renowned actress Laura Keene in the popular comedy Our American Cousin.” The fact that Lincoln attended a popular comedic play shows that he liked to enjoy himself and laugh. In the biography, A Lincoln Preface, it is stated that “with strange grace and humor, saying, ‘I appreciate most highly your Majesty’s tender of good offices in forwarding to this Government a stock from which a supply of elephants might be raised on our soil’.” Abraham Lincoln made a joke about raising and growing elephants, which wasn’t very funny but indicates that Lincoln liked to joke around from time to