I won the first round. What else can you bring to the debate?
Don't forget that during this time most of the educated and productive resided in the North. In the North the culture was more modern and more cosmopolitan. It was also shown that the mass majority of the South was uneducated and ignorant. The few landowners and bankers and elites(military officers) that had slaves and benefited the most were just about the most human capital that came out of the South. Lincoln did what real leaders do. He did what he though was right and a Southern rebel assasinated him for it. Their is a lot of romantacizm coming from the South but with its slavery and it's narrow agricultural economy it was bound for death anyways.
If Lincoln is so bad who is your model president?