CodeToad:
"“Soft spoken” is far from a description of humble given his dictatorship and tyrannical actions.
He was a tyrant." "Soft spoken" is exactly how Lincoln is usually described.
Here is a typical example:
"We know from research that Abraham Lincoln was a soft spoken man with a thin reedy voice. His delivery, it has been speculated, would have been firm but with a bit of a down home quality."
Here is another:
"In chapter three he speaks of how Lincoln was soft-spoken, to a degree.
Waldo Braden does mention that before his presidency, he was often eager to speak and rarely refused an invitation to rallies, conventions, ceremonies or public gatherings.
But after he won the election he was often reluctant to speak, although it was inevitable, being the president."
Was Lincoln a "tyrant"?
Only if you define the word "tyrant" to mean, in effect: "any leader I disagree with."
But in fact, Lincoln was no more of a tyrant than, say, Jefferson Davis or any other US war-time president.
In most of our wars, Congress gave a US president as much power as he needed to win it. Lincoln was no exception.