What influence does the President have over the country’s laws?

Was giving by lincoln on march 4, 1865-as lincoln prepared to speak, the civil war was drawing to a close-lincolns address of 703 words was the second shortest inaugural address-lincoln mentions god 14 times-505 of the words were one syllable -he used the word "war" or it's pronoun 9 times

They wanted to make slaves out of them.they wanted force them to move off their landthey wanted to make them grow crops for very little pay.they refused to speak native american languages