Does that include George Washington and Thomas Jefferson?
You have a rather interesting way of asking people to judge others. OTOH, I suspect God has given his judgment on those gentlemen. Not to say I know what that judgment was, but I'm confident it has been given. Perhaps we should all dwell on that...
Thomas Jefferson himself cursed the immorality of slavery, it was something that he struggled with throughout his life. The original draft of the Declaration condemned King George for bringing slavery here to the United States and he passed the Abolition of Slavery Act as President.
I will never believe that either Jefferson or Washington would of been on the side of the Confederacy. Jefferson would have been appalled at the path his political party took from the Confederate democrats up to their transistion into becoming the Progressive demcorats.
Even today the democrats believe that they can ignore the Constitution at will just as the Confederate democrats believed that they could completley disregard it through unilateral seceesion.
Lincoln had as his purpose to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law against States ruled by a political party that had no regard for the rule of law or for liberty.
This is even more evident by the fact that even after the Civil war the Confederate democrats continue to operate terrorist groups (the KKK) in order to go around the rule of law and to murder republicans and those that they once held enslaved.
This love of rebellion and disregard for the rule of law continued from the Confederate democrats gto the Progressive democrats who were intertwined and both supported the KKK.
I know that many of the Lost Causers here at FR like to believe that they are the most truely aligned with the Founders but they are not. They are more like the libertarians that we see who align themselves with the Progressives and groups like Code Pink. They continually seek to undermine the Constitution.