We're on a thread concerning the 'noble south'. What better place to discuss the noble south's ignoble leader? I realize that you don't care about it, it's much more convenient to criticize the North's leadership than it is to face up to the massive failings of the south's.
Lincoln's volumous words on the subject indicate that the last thing he wanted was to share this land with blacks, whether they were slaves or freed.
And the south was perfectly happy with blacks, so long as they were slave. Every southern state had laws restricting the freedom of free blacks in their state, most had laws designed to get rid of those free blacks that they had and make sure no more came in, and every southern leader fully supported those positions. Is that part of the 'noble south' of legend? Why aren't you interested in that?