Ahh, but they haven't been held up as the end all be all to the holy cause of the union and its no quarter war against the South just to end said practice are they? So it was common to be a member of the ACS. What of it? Face it, your hero could have cared less about the slaves and the falsehoods presented in the above article to paint him as some type of saint are getting tiresome. He was a big government thug and could care less about the Constitution. The exact thing that conservatives today are supposed to rally against. Except with abe we have to make an exception. We have to forget everything that is historically correct about the man, everything that would disgust a conservative if it were anyone else, and just remember his worthless political speeches