"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth."
Lincoln was, as the tool of the Lord, the scourge of the South. He would have become the balm of the South had he lived.
This victory was obviously not the South defeating the North. It was the United defeating the Divided. The populations of the red states are growing. It was a victory of the Living (those not aborted) over the Dead (the aborted and those who sacrificed them). If Murderous Abortion was legalized in 1977 or 1978 rather than 1973, we probably would have lost this race. If the peculiar institution had been abolished in 1787 the South would have dominated the North who built it's industry in slave like conditions on the crushed bodies and souls of countless immigrants. The evil of slavery was that it robbed families, states and God of the prosperity and ingenuity that comes from servitude of free men. The greater evil of abortion is similar in that the robs not only the victim but the family, state and God of life, service, genius and votes in perpetuity!!! We can never emancipate these sacrificed children.
Though I agree with your views on Abortion, I do NOT think that Abe was a "tool of the Lord", The South was the MOST moral and Christian part of the country at the time and STILL is today!