The man fights a war to preserve the Union and them orders the salves freed. Explain that.
The emancipation proclamation affected only the confedrate states. Lincoln used it more as a weapon against the South rather than out of altruism. My understanding.
Which he explicitly had no right to do since our own nation was founded on God given right to independence.
He did not really care about preserving the Union. What he cared about is preserving the New York POWER CORRIDOR control of Southern economic output. That's why he and they supported and passed the Corwin amendment, making slavery effectively permanent and unassailable.
Lincoln offered to let all the initial seceded states go if Virginia would pledge to remain, so no, despite all the hype that has been spread about "preserving the Union", Lincoln was willing to see it break up so long as he kept power over the more significant portion of it.
and them orders the salves freed.
Which only a dictator could do. US Law protected the rights of slave owners to own slaves. Ordering them freed was defiance of existing law.
He also did not order them freed out of the milk of human kindness. He ordered them freed to give him political power by disenfranchising all the whites, and granting voting rights to all the blacks. This is how his party got even more power.
It's always about money and power. It is *NEVER* about morality, kindness, or decency. Washington DC is about forcing money out of everyone to be used for the benefit of the wealthy and privileged who are connected to the system of governance.
Tax and Spend Liberal Lincoln was the man who broke our system of governance.