Shitting on our rights sounds EXACTLY like "the land of lincoln"
The guy had no interest in abolition until the Northern States were ready to end the war and let the Southern States go their separate ways. His power and influence was at stake.
Tyrants will do ANYTHING, including completely shit on the Constitution and the rights of individuals, when power is at stake.
Oh, really? Well, you really should at least check with Wiki before making such a claim. At the very beginning of the article entitled
Abraham Lincoln and slavery puts a pretty big hole in your statement:
Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery is one of the most discussed issues in
American history.
Lincoln often expressed moral opposition to slavery in public and private.
[1] Initially, he expected to bring about the eventual extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into any U.S. territory, and by proposing
compensated emancipation (an offer Congress applied to Washington, D.C.) in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the
Republican Party's platform of 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more U.S. territories. He believed that the extension of slavery in new western lands would block "free labor on free soil", and he also wanted a peaceful, enduring end to slavery.
As early as the 1850s, Lincoln had been politically attacked as an
abolitionist, but he did not consider himself one. Howard Jones says that "in the prewar period, as well as into the first months of the
American Civil War itself....Lincoln believed it prudent to administer a slow death to slavery through gradual emancipation and voluntary colonization rather than to follow the abolitionist and demanding an immediate end to slavery without compensation to owners." You can view it in its entirety here:
Abraham Lincoln and slavery - Wikipedia
