I believe that Lincoln was a Republican. He tried to do away with both parties and only have one party and that plan was to be the Republican Party. He was a pollitician just as all Presidents are, and they do as they are told by the persons who put them in office. They are figureheads. It has taken me many years to come to this conclusion. But...any person that would kill allow that much killing of humans, whether they were from the North or South is heartless, and unfeeling. We have the same going on now, We want our country back!