Not going to argue the point with you. It’s non-responsive to my statement.
The claim was that Lincoln said the War had nothing to do with slavery. If you can come up with a quote to that effect, be my guest.
“.....we have no right at all to disturb it (slavery) in the states where it exists, and we profess that we have no more inclination to disturb it than we have the right to do it…We also oppose it as an evil so far as it seeks to spread itself. We insist on the policy that shall restrict it to its present limits. We don’t suppose that in doing this we violate anything due to the actual presence of the institution, or anything due to the constitutional guarantees thrown around it”. Lincoln/Douglas Debate, 1858
Another quote from the great liar.
“In the first place what is necessary to make the institution [of slavery] national? Not war. There is no danger that the people of Kentucky will shoulder their muskets and with a young n****r stuck on every bayonet march into Illinois and force them upon us. There is no danger of our going over there and making war on them”.
The great liar in all his glory.
http://lincolnandslavery.com/lsjom/events/landmark-events/118-the-lincoln-douglas-debates.html
Until the summer of 1862, Lincoln denied that his aim was to free the slaves. He still had hopes of persuading the slaveowners of the border states to end the war, appealing to the plain fact that the war itself was unraveling the institution in their states and that he was willing to compensate them if they agreed to emancipate their slaves who had jumped the plantation and were, ironically, clogging the operations of the Union Army. Lincoln even sat down and figured out that paying each slaveowner market price would be cheaper than continuing the war. The owners were irate, because—for one thing—they had no clue about how to use the money they would get for investment in other activities, much less how to use it to pay workers to continue on their plantations.