Damn right, too.
Although Lincoln always held out the hand of forgiveness and conciliation to the rebels, he told a delegation from Maryland that if 75,000 Marylanders opposed the passage of Union troops, they might find 75,000 graves.He was not ready to give up the game "until every card is played."
And yet, in February of 1865, he proposed that $400,000,000 in bonds be made available to the rebel states if they would only cease opposition to the national authority.
As you know, he refused to consider treason trials for any rebel, and indicated that the best thing was for the rebel leaders to leave the country. "Lincoln," Henry Grady said, "comprehended within himself all the strength, and gentleness, all the majesty and grace of the republic." He was indeed, the first American, "the sum of Puritan and Cavalier, in whose ardent nature were fused the virtues of both, and in whose great soul the faults of both were lost."
You criticise President Lincoln because you don't fancy the outcome of the war.
It's just more "mean old Lincoln kicked our rebel butts!"
Walt