Republicans need to stop defending Lincoln because he was a Republican. He was a tyrant.
Slavery was just a crux to his narcissism. It needed and had to be done away with, but it would have happened before 1900 without a bloody failed second war of Independence.
No it was the Confederate democrats who were the tyrants. They fought to uphold slavery and fought against the rule of law. Their outlaw mentality had no respect for the rights of ALL but simply for their own libertine philosophy.
I always find it amusing when a supporter of a cause motivated by the perceived threat to the institution that kept a third of their population in bondage accuses someone else of tyranny.
It needed and had to be done away with, but it would have happened before 1900 without a bloody failed second war of Independence.
So another forty or fifty years of slavery was OK with you? Kind of hard on the slave, wasn't it?
If you can supply a single shred of evidence to support that claim I would love to see it. The confeds were determined to head in an entirely opposite direction - expanding slave states and territories.
How does that possibly square with your contention that they were working toward (eventual) emancipation?
Lincoln was no tyrant. Jefferson Davis was the tyrant. Praise and honor to brave Southerners like Lee and the typical reb soldier is one thing, but an attempt to bring Lincoln down to the sordid political level of the secessionists is taking Southern defensiveness and sore loser syndrome to an extreme level. Not only did Davis and his minions head a regime whose cornerstone was keeping an entire race in bondage, they also trampled on the rule of law and the rights of any white Southerners who did not sufficiently dance to the slaveowners' tune.