[Non-Sequitur]

Don’t forget that Lincoln also wanted to use state revenues to deport slaves.

Actually that is incorrect. But even if it were true, Thomas Jefferson was proposing that same thing decades before.

The struggle was about political power and Lincoln’s fear that slavery leaning states would gain the upper hand politically.

When Lincoln was inaugurated there were 15 slave states and over 20 free states. I don't think he was worried about the balance of political power. It was trending in the non-slavery direction and had been for some time.

[The_Sword_of_Groo]

Umm, actually that is absolutely correct. Don't believe me? Lincoln's own words from a speech delivered in Springfield, IL; 26 June, 1857

"Such separation ... must be effected by colonization ... to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be."

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"first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia - to their own native land." Abraham Lincoln-1854
"I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization...in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race."-Abraham Lincoln, to Congress 1Dec1862

There are many other examples of Lincoln's attitudes towards blacks. Although he abhorred slavery as an institution, the idea that Lincoln was some champion of equal rights is a joke.

When asked why he wouldn't let the South secede in peace, Lincoln's reply was "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?"