The butcher was for slavery before he was against it. He’d fit right in the politics of today. Two faced liar is really what he is. Can anyone really know who the real Lincoln is? He is all over the place. Slimy.
Sort of like Butcher Davis was for the union before he was against it?
Or like Butcher Lee thought the union indissoluble before he joined those who wanted to dissolve it?
But it's not really that fair a comparison, because in the context of his day, Lincoln was never pro-slavery.
Then again, maybe slimy liars Davis and Lee were really against the union all the time they professed support for it -- that would explain a lot.
Anyway, changing circumstances force people to reconsider their previous assumptions, and circumstances were changing very quickly at the beginning of the 1860s.
Plenty of people in the South as well as in the North found themselves taking positions they wouldn't have dreamed of years before.
Lincoln was neither the most nor the least consistent of his contemporaries.
They all couldn't be consistently for something, like Davis and Lee were for slavery all their lives. Regardless, Lincoln's opposition to slavery and he desire to restrict it to where it already existed was long term.
Two faced liar is really what he is.
Hardly.
Can anyone really know who the real Lincoln is?
Tommy DiLorenzo thought he did. But he was wrong, too.
I am sorry, for someone to support a regime whose policy was to execute all Black prisoners of war to call someone who opposed that regime a butcher is laughable. Imagine if the Federal forces executed all white Confederate prisoners of war, that would be butchery.