I am Abraham Lincoln, but throughout the years, I have been called the Liberator and more commonly called Honest Abe. I have successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserved the Union, and ended slavery. Although I was a Republican, I mainly adhered to the Whig theory of the presidency, which gave Congress primary responsibility for writing the laws, while the Executive branch enforced them. Throughout my years of presidency, I only vetoed four bills passed by Congress; the only important one was the Wade-Davis Bill with its harsh program of Reconstruction. In 1861, I signed the Revenue Act, creating the first U.S. income tax. This created a flat tax of 3% on incomes above $800, which was later changed by the Revenue Act of 1862 to a progressive rate structure. Speaking of Acts, I also signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost. As Commander-in-Chief, I confronted ithe war an unprecedented crisis, and responded using unprecedented powers, which no President before me had ever wielded. I used my war powers to impose a blockade, to disburse funds before appropriation by Congress, and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, arresting and imprisoning thousands of suspected Confederate sympathizers without warrant. With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, I also maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort; this, despite the New York Draft Riots. I promoted the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery. In July 1862, Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act, which freed the slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion. Although I believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves, I approved the bill in deference to the legislature. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, freed slaves in territories not already under Union control.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until over three million of them in Confederate territory were freed. I commented while signing the Proclamation saying, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper.” Now that you have learned about me, I am about to relax myself and watch a play.