Cold blooded and cynical.
DiogenesLamp: "Cold blooded and cynical."
That's total rubbish and you well know it.
Lincoln's authority as commander in chief allowed him to declare "contraband of war", which he did, for obvious military reasons.
But he had no authority to, as a future president would say "use my pen and my phone" to abolish slavery in Union states.
That required a constitutional amendment, the 13th, which Lincoln strongly supported.
So, words like "cold blooded and cynical" might well describe DiogenesLamp's defenses of the Lost Cause, but not Lincoln's support for emancipation, abolition & citizenship, which eventually got him murdered.