Lincoln was the true conservative of the day. He wanted to put slavery back on the path of extinction, as most of the founding fathers wanted to do. If you read the writings of the revolution and constitution founding fathers the large majority knew slavery was contrary to the Declaration of Independence. They thought they had put it on the path of extinction by allowing states to outlaw it and banning it from the territories. If the cotton gin hadn’t been invented it might have died out in the early 1800s.
Should have picked our own damned cotton.