Well, you clearly missed your grammar lessons, so I guess you "must of" missed something in your neoconfederate history lessons as well. Perhaps you missed the lesson about Lincoln's Cooper Union address (which was nominally directed at the expansion of slavery in the territories, but also squarely condemned slavery as an institution). Or maybe you missed the Lincoln-Douglas debates (or did you think that his debates with Douglas in 1858 were irrelevant to his campaign against Douglas in 1860?). Or maybe you missed Lincoln's "house divided" speech. Or maybe you missed the various "Declarations of Causes" by the seceeding states, each of which (hmmmm, if Lincoln was pro-slavery, I wonder why the states would secede upon his election). Must I go on?
I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be "the Union as it was." If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.[42]
A. Lincoln