well we are talking about one speech and we wouldn't be able to label him from that alone.We also have to look at much more of what he did.The emancipation proclamation did not free slaves in the North and the Neutral states,he freed them in the South where he had no authority,he wanted to cause a rebellion of slaves in the south while the men were away at war,Lincoln was a crafty self serving Politician.The tariffs he placed on the Southern ports were a burden,and they were used to protect corporations in the North.He was a President of the north and for the north only he did not carry one southern state in the election.He knew the Southern secession would harm the North economically because the South was their bread and butter.Lincoln most definetly was a racist and did not care to abolish slavery he said so on other occasions.He also was a tyrant and was responsible for 600,000 plus American soldiers deaths and a million more maimed.secession was a last check on the corruption of the federal government,Lincoln was also anti constitution,it got in his way to create a powerful centralized government and a centralized banking system and this is what we suffer from today. -- N, detroit