I'm not a big Lincoln fan... And I don't think he was all that honest either...

The fact that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to the Confederate states doesn't seem all that honest...

As for the Civil War (which it wasn't) it can be argued that had Lincoln just sent Jefferson Davis a "good luck to ya'll" letter rather than resupply Sumpter then the war would have been avoided and in MO the South would have ended slavery before the turn of the century and saved one heck of a lot of suffering that continues to this very day...

B~