May have been better for all concerned, really. Imagine if Obama was encouraging half the country to invade and destroy the other half. That’s what Lincoln did
What do you think ObaMao is doing by demonizing Republicans (even the mild mannered RINO Romney), tea partiers and producers? What do you think he is doing by using executive orders to keep illegal aliens here and encourage more to come? What do you think he is doing with his racially charged rhetoric and using his tools and lackeys to cry racism at the slightest hint of opposition to his fascist Marxist policies?
And, by the way, the south weren't totally innocent victims of Lincoln. Who fired the first shots on Ft. Sumter? Who ram-roded secession through state legislatures over the objections of cooler headed citizens who wanted to see if Lincoln would really govern in the manner which they feared?
For the record, Lincoln's position wasn't an outright abolition of slavery, but a gradual compensated phaseout which included fair payments to owners through the sale of public lands in the west and resettlement of freed slaves in Africa who desired to go.
Had Lincoln's plan come to fruition, we might actually have American friendly Christian countries on Africa's west central coast. Liberia functioned in that manner for over a century until Jimmy Carter allowed it to be taken over by your typical tribal kleptocracy. Had a few more descendants of freed American slaves provided the critical mass necessary, the results might have been entirely different!
Not even close.
Before I give you my opinion, let me ask you-- what do you suppose the slaves thought of it?