KingArthur305, your Republican masters must be proud, but you'll have to a better job defending them.
One thing is for sure my friend. If Lincoln didn't commit those crimes you stated then their is no USA. Who knows what it would have been like with two countries in the current USA living side by side or living with constant strife. Lincoln may have freed the slaves for economic or political reasons but the results is what matters. Doesn't matter if he had the conviential idea of blacks but he looked to the future and looked for the out for the country as a whole while the south was look for it own "States Rights".