He is the greatest President to date, in my opinion. Someone once said: “Washington is the father of our Country, but Lincoln is it’s Savior.” I cannot agree more.

Welcome back to the Cabin Chris. You’ve been away for awhile but it’s good to have you back for a visit. Pull up a chair and sit by the fire a spell. I love the reason you gave. Yes, because of Lincoln the nightmare of slavery ended. Thank God.

There are some who HATE him. It depends on your point of view. However, the majority of people rate him as one of the greatest-if not the greatest.

Depends if you lived in the North or South.

The best!

If you understand the history of world banking, probably not. Abe kinda made himself the dictator during the Civil War (for a good reason in his opinion). Abe’s “union” set the stage for the Federal Reserve bank we have today. The U.S. is owned by bankers.

EIDT: Also, Abe only emancipated slaves in the Southern states, not in the Union states. It was a tactic to undercut the southern war effort.

The “Lost Cause” lives on.

Mr Lincoln was a great man He was an abolitionist [opposed to slavery] He said slavery was an abomination before God That no man can be free if some were slaves
There is much rewriting of history and many want to paint him as a black hating white man But Mr Obama admires him there would nothing to admire if the civil war was not about slavery he would just be a man who lead us into a disastrous war
just read the silly half wit posts ”states rights” the only right they wanted was to have slaves Why did they want to break away from the union.To keep the right to say y’all?
I’m a southern boy my state of Texas was at 1st not allowed into union as we were a slave state this was going on all over the union slave free state Right after Mr Lincoln was elected the south My south,the south that I love Declared war on the union
As an aside my beloved grandfather hated Mr Lincoln and Yankees He was wrong about Mr Lincoln

dunbran Good God I can’t take it ”Abe did not set the slave free in the union ”[north] Good god man slavery was outlawed in the north that is were blacks slaves run too To prevent war earlier They passed a law southerns could come to the north and could prove these were their slave take them back Grand pop was right Yankees are lying .rude,SOB’s
He also did not like the english as well Two out of three is not bad

Lincoln weather you agree or disagree with him was a great President in terms of how he executed what he did. He was the most hands on President in terms of military strategy the country had ever seen. He read books on military strategy and taught himself how to manage a war; and he went through one head General after another until he found the man he believed to be the right one in Ulysses Grant. Plus while he knew from the time he won the election that war with the south was imminent; he waited until the South fired the first shots at Fort Sumter; so that he could claim the so called “moral high ground” and not portray himself as a warmonger. His firm resolve was to hold the Union together; and if it weren’t for him we might very well be two separate countries right now.

And after the war was over; he advocated a policy of healing and not punishing the South, treating them as countrymen as opposed to conquered enemies. Thus he was just as much an ambassador as he was military leader.

Plus more important than anything else; he was an honest person, and conducted himself with dignity and respectable fashion at all times. Plus he was a family man.

A great President Lincoln was.

Sam: your ignorance is rather appalling.