“Robert E. Lee served a system of government that endeavored to enslave a race of human beings as nothing more that chattel.”
The same can be said of Lincoln: Lincoln served a system of government that endeavored to enslave a race of human beings as nothing more (than) chattel.
I don’t think anyone denies that the corner stone of the United States Constitution was slavery.
However, you have repeatedly made the case that Lincoln took up arms to violently overthrow the pro-slavery United States Constitution: Lincoln and the North “fought to free the slaves.”
Your argument that Lincoln violently overthrew the United States Constitution is quite controversial. But maybe he did.
Nope. It was a compromise, and a minor detail that they decided could be settled later...so it was allowed because at the toime it was actually dying out...and importation of slaves stopped in the early 1800s. But then technology made cotton clothing cheaper than wool and flax,which led to plantations becoming economically viable...but by 1860, cotton had competition from Egypt and India, which might have made compensation to free the slaves and making them into tenant farms by freemen a good alternative.
There is a good argument that a compromise to compensate owners to free slaves would have ended slavery without war, but extremists on both sides stopped that.
Other than you and Justice Baldwin I don't know anyone who supports the idea that property in slaves is the foundation of the Constitution.