I see Lincoln as the one who started us on the path that his fellow president from Illinois is leading us down now. If you love an all powerful national government, you have to give props to Lincoln. The Wilson, FDR, LBJ and Obama agendas would not have been possible without Lincoln obliterating states rights first. I obviously do not see Lincoln the same way you do. I’ll leave it there.
States do not have rights. People have rights.
You sure you aren’t being led by liberal propaganda here?
It is a fact of history that Lincoln turned to God to pray for help to keep the union together. What the USA became after the war is all on the Democrats, especially after their victory in the 1877 Compromise—much of Wilsoniam statism can be seen as a reflection of that.