Thomas DiLorenzo has published a book telling the truth.
But it's not a very important issue to you, or you'd have the data you want at your fingertips.
"The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forebearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for 'perpetual union' so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled. It is idle to talk of secession." January 23, 1861
"All the South has ever desired is that the union, as formed by our founding fathers, should be preserved." Jan 5. 1866
-- now that -- is two faced.
Show that Lincoln ever said anything like that.
Here's another interesting little factoid for you:
" Madam, do not train up your children with hostility to the government of the United States. Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans."
--Robert E. Lee, 1867.
So I don't see why anyone would take issue with a statue of President Lincoln, do you?
Walt
That would be true if I did not have a life outside this little chat universe, like you don't.
If it's important to someone to discover the truth about what you're spinning, it will be important enough to them to search your voluminous nonsense in FR, where you have been thoroughly and soundly dispatched and refuted, and not just to read this page.
They should stick that on the plaque for the statue.