Does that make Lincoln a bad man? Here's a quote from a letter from a about 40 years before Lincoln. I'd like you to tell me what your opinion of the author is:
"Amidst this prospect of evil, I am glad to see one good effect. It has brought the necessity of some plan of general emancipation & deportation more home to the minds of our people than it has ever been before. Insomuch, that our Governor has ventured to propose one to the legislature. This will probably not be acted on at this time. Nor would it be effectual; for while it proposes to devote to that object one third of the revenue of the State, it would not reach one tenth of the annual increase. My proposition would be that the holders should give up all born after a certain day, past, present, or to come, that these should be placed under the guardianship of the State, and sent at a proper age to S. Domingo. There they are willing to recieve them, & the shortness of the passage brings the deportation within the possible means of taxation aided by charitable contributions."
So...bad as Lincoln? Vile racist? What?
Much more appropriate had you posted Jefferson’s entire letter:
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl264.htm
Jefferson was horrified at the prospect of a civil war, he was not advocating it.
I didn’t make the reference to Lincoln’s proposed deportation to accuse him of being evil in his suggestion to rid America of its black population, but to point out the hypocrisy of Lincoln and those who claim the Civil War arose out of some noble Northern cause of freeing the slaves and making them full citizens of the United States. The Civil War was about the North asserting its power through enhancement of the Federal goverment. The fact that emancipation came as a corollory benefit of the Civil War does not excuse the damage Lincoln did to America (through the destruction of the war itself and the diminishment of States’ rights) or the evils of Jim Crow, which were a direct result of the forcible end of slavery. The population of the Southern states did not voluntarily end slavery, so they fought back in the ballot box after the end of Reconstruction. Had they been permitted the time to make this decision themselves, the full integration of blacks into American society would have had a much smoother transition and been more broadly accepted by the South’s population. Lincoln’s cannon ensured only that blacks would be kept down for another 100 years.