Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

'The Hypo'

The subject of the photo is Abraham Lincoln himself. The picture shows Lincoln from his early days before his run for the Presidency. It points towards the melancholy nature of Lincoln, which he used to call as 'hypo' in the slang term. His friends had already known the sad spells that Lincoln used to go through from time to time. We can see from the picture that Lincoln was already abysmal about the state of affairs and could have seen a probable civil war in the future.

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