Well make up your mind bill. In a post above you are all over Lincoln's case because he was not an abolitionist and not 20th century PC on equality and then you turn around and damn the only politicians of the day who were abolitionists and who did support full equality. That is where the term "Radical" Republicans came from. Believing in full equality for blacks and the willingness to use Federal power to protect that equality was a very radical idea in the 1860s.
So was Lincoln, the Civil Rights moderate a bad guy, or were the Radical Republicans the bad guys, or were your slaveocrat ancestors who went to war to protect slavery and who after the war organized lynch mobs to punish ‘uppity’ blacks the bad guys?
NOBODY in the 19th century qualifies for PC status. NOBODY. Not Garrison, not DuBois, nobody.
Lincoln was, to put it mildly, kinda hard on the Constitution. Most presidents are in wartime. That doesn't make him a bugbear or a saint. Again, it's that shades of gray stuff.
Lincoln would STILL have been better for the South than the Radicals that succeeded him.