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His intent was to save the Union. He never placed anything else above that in order of importance.
The south fought for their "states rights" and their intent to expand to slavery to the northern states or seceed and maintain it in the south.
And I don't care if you STFU or not. It is your right to continue to look like a dumbass.
If Lincoln got his way, as expressed in this 1860 campaign platform, and prevented slavery from being expanded to new states, this would have quickly led to the Free States gaining unchecked dominance in Congress and a lock on the Presidency, leading to an ever increasingly hostile to slavery, Federal Government.
The election of Lincoln was an existential threat to the political and economic elite of the South, of that time, as their whole class was based on slavery.
He talked some diplomatic and/or political smack down the road to try to walk that back, when it was called for, but no one with any sense would ignore his actions and believe those statements.
Lincoln was a politician. His job was to work across party lines as the president. Your belief in what he "actually believed" is pure speculation, nor is it supported in any public address on record during his administration.
EVERY important transcript of his public speeches reveal that he was most concerned about and committed to preserving the Union.
His job was to work across party lines, hence speeches and letters that contradict his life long opposition to slavery, his campaign platform, and his actions during his Presidency.
It is not pure speculation when it is backed up by a lifetime of documentation and his actual actions.
You are the one cherry picking his statements that serve your partisan political purposes without and consideration of context or Lincoln's historical policies.
A lifetime of what? He believed blacks were inferior and that the races needed to be separate. Shut the fuck up.
i'm sure the millions of slaves he freed, were really hurt by him not being a 21 st century liberal.
How many millions of slaves have you freed, Mister Judge?
Yeah all those slaves he freed in states that had seceded from the union.
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Just face it, you've lost the argument.