Yeah he was quite the character. I don't hate him, but I don't praise him either. It's always funny how many conservatives love and practically worship him, but yet, so much of what he did was often what they supposedly fight against. He consolidated the government, said goodbye to the 10th, started a war against his own people seceding from the Union (that was legal as far as I can tell) plus other nonsense. Obviously there was the whole slave thing which I understand, but still, no other nation had to go to war to get rid of that terrible institution, why did Lincoln?