[Non-Sequitur]

BOTH would do ANYTHING to obtain more POWER and/or MONEY.

Not quite ANYTHING. Apparently Lincoln wouldn't go so far as to own other human beings and make money off their labor like Jeff Davis, Robert Lee, or Thomas Jackson. Or to make a fortune buying and selling them like Nathan Forrest.

[stand watie]

IF he had had the wish to "trade in human flesh" he would have done so. apparently he decided that being a CROOKED railroad shyster was more lucrative than being a slaver.

face it, he was NOT a "decent fellow". getting assassinated doesn't make him a saint, either (despite the modern attempt by the DIMocRAT left to "canonize" JFK, as "saint john of hyannisport").

free dixie,sw