Did you seriously just trot out a Lincoln reference in the defense of a strategy that relies on the rights of individual State to set their own rules?
That’s weird coming from the state that had the highest percentage of volunteers to the Union Army.
"...that we here highly resolve that these hacks shall not have voted in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of sycophants, and that government of the people, by the party hacks, for the party hacks, shall not perish from the earth."