You are going to ask me if I'm defending slavery here? Do you not have the wit to grasp the subtle difference between championing people's right to self determination (independence), and supporting slavery? (Lincoln was absolutely opposed to the former, but willing to tolerate the later.)
Of course I do not support slavery, especially my own, but that is where we are heading if the Fed Zilla keeps sucking up more power.
So, have you even read the so-called “Emancipation Proclamation”. Tell me, why did Lincoln only propose to free slaves in places where the Federal troops were not - and purposely exclude those places that the Presidential order had standing?
Every high school history student knows the “Emancipation Proclamation” freed exactly zero slaves.
While we are on the subject that you are so willfully ignorant of, how would your feel if Obama jailed the entire Texas legislature (a border state, like Maryland was in 1862), without charges - and when Chief Justice Roberts threatened to review the illegal order, Obama sent US marshals to arrest him. Lincoln was a tyrant, pure and simple. He did worse things than King George.