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Lincoln had no desire to free the slaves

"Honest" Abe Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861;

 ... Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now addresses you. I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
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The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere...
The War to prevent Southern Independence was about money and Yankee control of others and "Honest" Abe was, at least this time, quite honest about his intentions and desires. He cared not a whit for the slaves and, in fact, up until the very day he reaped the violence he sowed, he was diligently striving to remove all blacks from America.
On August 14, 1862 Lincoln invited five black ministers to the White House (first ever such meeting) and told them they were to listen to him (no dialogue then) and he went on to detail how the blacks suffered from being amongst whites and how whites suffered because of their presence in American and he tried to sell them on The Chiriqui project, which plan was to have the blacks move to Central America; Colombia region then, Panama now, where they could mine coal and be free.
However, these and many other facts are unpleasant to modern Americans and so we tell each other myths about the 1860s because, if we did not tell these lies to each other, there is simply no way to justify the massive memorial in Washington honoring a tyrannical and racist war criminal.
It is undeniable that uncountable myths have erupted to justify the killing fields of the tyrannical war criminal in the funny hat but the plain and simple truth is that, according to the 1860 census, there were more blacks in the north than in the south and there was no move to free the slaves in the north by the self-righteous Yankees - either the black slaves or the numerous white slaves (the root of which is Slav) - and Lincoln's emancipation proclamation freed how many slaves?
Zero.
Far be it from me to be publicly provocative but the reason  I always put "Honest" in quotes is that it is my opinion that Abe got the nickname, "Honest," for the same reason a 400 lb mobster gets the nickname, Tiny.
Mr. President, Tear down that Lincoln Memorial in Washington, because the praxis of the war criminal, Lincoln, in dealing with the American Indian was the model Adolph Hitler used to deal with the Jews in Germany.
The factual truth about what the tyrannical war criminal, Lincoln, did is far far worse than what Jefferson Davis or any General of the Confederate States of America did and yet we are denouncing what the courageous defenders of the South did in opposing Northern aggression and invasion and calling them traitors and Nazis, and tearing down their statutes, all of which action begs the question - What are they afraid of?
They are afraid that bred in the bones of southern man is a desire for liberty and the totalitarians can not tolerate even the idea that southern man has a right to either liberty or his history. 
Think of that; southern man is the only man in America who is not allowed to have his own history and sacred memories of his honorable progenitors.
Yes, Virginia, there is grave fear that the desire for liberty in the south is strengthening, that it really never was exterminated, and so that desire for liberty is under a renewed attack and it is an attack based in hatred, ignorance, and fear.