Lincoln *is* the Republican Party — the GOP was created by the religious right for the purpose of abolishing slavery. Lincoln was definitely pro-war— he put down the great Democrat rebellion, even threw many Democrats in jail and shutting down their newspapers. And the icing on the cake— Lincoln was pro-business, passing bills like the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act.
Lincoln is the best American president ever, easily.
I am sure he would have let the South go if he only knew that 140 later, the North would slowly bring creeping Marxism. Yes, socialism/Marxism is coming North to South. No question a free Independent South would be watching our ex -Northern countrymen drinking the collective kool-aid, glad to have been freed from this abysmal Union. But alas no, because of the Illinois Butcher™ we have to go down with the ship. What a hero.
FYI To Clarence, he was a racist of the worst sort.
Yeah, that doesn't sound like a tyrant.
What part of "freedom of press" is confusing?