Some of you seem to think that being anti-Lincoln = being pro-slavery. The opinions are exclusive. Lincoln destroyed State's Rights and killed anyone who disagreed with him. Lincoln said the Southern States could not secede but then didn't let their citizens vote in the 1864 Federal Elections - Either they were still citizens and could vote or were not and could not. He wanted it both ways because he would have lost the election if the southern states had voted in the Presidential election.