Abe was no saint. His original plan didn't favor equality. I often wonder what this country would be like had he succeeded? "One nation under ... a host of idiots."
This goes a little deeper yet. Abe was all about sending the black man back to Africa and other regions he might have came from. This idea was abandoned because most American blacks were born here and knew nothing of useful knowledge in other lands. The facts were that they were now American blacks and this was their country.
That's what I was alluding to.