Your false god said otherwise:
"I was an old Henry Clay tariff whig. In old times I made more speeches on that subject, than on any other. I have not since changed my views." - Lincoln, October 11, 1859
Old times there -are- forgotten.
"From 1854 to his nomination for the presidency in 1860, as James McPherson noted in his DRAWN WITH THE SWORD, "the dominant, unifying theme of Lincoln's career was opposition to the expansion of slavery as a vital first step toward placing it in the course of ultimate extinction." In those years he gave approximately 175 political speeches. McPherson notes that the "central message of these speeches showed Lincoln to be a "one-issue" man - the issue being slavery." Thus, Lincoln's nomination to the presidency was based on a principled opposition to slavery on moral grounds, and that position was clear to voters both in the South and the North.
In his early speeches and actions as president-elect and president, he was clear in his opinion that he had no legal authority to interfere with slavery in the slave states. However, he was persistent and consistent in his efforts to encourage and aid voluntary emancipation in the loyal Border States, territories and the District of Columbia. These efforts predated his publication of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation."
- from the AOL ACW forum
Lincoln worked on the EP, not an adjustment of tariffs, to help end the fighting.
The slave power needs a lot of apologizing, and you are willing to provide it. But that doesn't change the facts.
Walt
So in other words, it doesn't matter what The Lincoln actually said about tariffs himself. It matters what Noam McPherson SAYS that he said.
Lincoln worked on the EP, not an adjustment of tariffs, to help end the fighting.
Yeah. Cause unlike with slavery, he wasn't willing to compromise his core beliefs on the tariff.