[WhiskeyPapa]

If you say you are going to gut the Constitution, and you follow through, you're still an honest man.

Lincoln did not gut the COnstitution, so your point is simply wrong.

Walt

[Sir Gawain]

your point is simply wrong.

As is your assertion that the refusal to rescind the EP means he cared about blacks. You can possibly surmise that he was a man of his word for refusing to do it. That's about it, at least from the quote you used to support your argument.