They are still claiming someone isn't human

Gee, with a such a history one would thing the Black Caucus would be chomping at the bit to let Black Republicans and Conservatives into the group.

Dem/Leftist thinking - "ON NO! A GOP/CONSERVATIVE MEME GOT OVER 50 UPVOTES! LET'S SPAM THE COMMENT SECTION" . . .now I could be wrong doesn't the amount of comments also count toward a memer's point total?

Congrats OP. I bet half the replies so far is by one crying liberal that is still crying over here on your post.

For all the trolls claiming Lincoln was a liberal I am not going to keep bothering replying to every post. Here you go.

Lincoln was conservative. Get over it.

-He preferred stronger state government
-He was for free market and pro-industry
-He was for tariffs
-He was against federal intervention in economy

"The chief and real purpose of the Republican Party is eminently conservative. It proposes nothing save and except to restore this government to its original tone in regard to this element of slavery, and there to maintain it, looking for no further change ... than that which the original framers of the government themselves expected and looked forward to." -Lincoln

Also

Look up Copper Union Speech Here you go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_speech

Lincoln's speech has three major parts, each building towards his conclusion. The first part concerns the founders and the legal positions they supported on the question of slavery in the territories. The second part is addressed to the voters of the Southern states by clarifying the issues between Republicans and Democrats. He rebukes claims made by the Democrats that they are "conservative", arguing instead that the Republicans' position on slavery is in fact the "conservative" policy, as Lincoln claims it coincides with the views of the American founding fathers, who he said opposed slavery.

Stop pretending Lincoln was a liberal to make yourself feel better. He was conservative, get over it.

False.
Lincoln was a Republican. Even before the party formed, going back to their Hamilton Federalist roots, they favored a big strong centralized federal goverment at the expense of the liberty of individual states.
Further, they were pro-business, as in gov't intervention on their behalf, what we would now call Corporatism.

Lincoln was very conservative and thus, very racist.
While he opposed slavery in new territories, he was all for maintaining it in the Border States who joined with the Union, and who were exempted from the Emancipation Proclamation, as was Confederate territory captured during the war.

#therewasneveraswitch

Yes, we been over this. It is the other trolls on the democrat side believing Lincoln was a liberal. I never made the claim Lincoln being liberal, they however did.

Moving along.

There were a number of free blacks living in Springfield as well. Abraham and Mary Lincoln employed two black women as domestic servants in their home. Many of Lincoln’s professional and personal acquaintances employed blacks. By 1860, 311 free blacks lived in Sangamon County. At that time, there was no structured residential segregation, and 21 blacks lived within a three-block radius of Lincoln’s home. One black woman was a member of Mary Lincoln’s church and another drove Lincoln to the railroad station when he left for Washington in 1861.

During his law practice, Lincoln had black clients and participated in cases that benefited black Illinois residents, and his third law partner, William Herndon, defended fugitive slaves. Lincoln defended a black woman in a criminal trial, helped three individuals escape convictions for harboring fugitive slaves and handled the divorce case of a local black couple.

In an 1855 slander suit, Lincoln represented William Dungey, a man with a dark complexion, who was struggling to prove his whiteness and maintain the privileges of white citizenship. Whether Dungey was “black” or “mulatto,” Lincoln understood the importance of his client’s fight to hold on to his white identity in a society that would take away his freedoms if his accuser was successful in proving his blackness.

Lincoln represented his clients, regardless of their racial identities, to the best of his legal abilities and took seriously his responsibility to them. One of Lincoln’s long-term clients was a Haitian-born black man, William Florville, a Springfield barber who owned a great deal of land. Beginning as early as 1847, Lincoln became Florville’s attorney. During the time of their lawyer-client relationship, Lincoln represented Florville in three lawsuits. He also handled legal matters related to Florville’s land holdings, including tax payments.

In the 1858 campaign for the U.S. Senate, Douglas was a vocal proponent of white supremacy, and he was Illinois’ proslavery candidate. Abraham Lincoln did not advocate black and white equality, but he was Illinois’ antislavery candidate. Douglas won the election, but two years later the political climate had changed. In 1860, when Lincoln was the Republican Party’s candidate for president, he was, essentially, the same candidate he had been during his campaign for the Senate. He was still opposed to slavery, and he still did not embrace racial equality. This time, however, the party with the antislavery platform won the election.

Throughout his lifetime, Lincoln had contemporaries who were more radical on the question of race than he was, and he had contemporaries who were more conservative. Lincoln enjoyed meaningful personal and professional connections with individual black people, yet it took four years of bloody Civil War to begin to change his attitudes about the possibilities for black freedom and equality. Did these attitudes make Lincoln a racist? Or do they reveal complexities in his character?

If we employ our modern definitions of race and racism, we cannot see the complexities of Lincoln’s character and we cannot examine the contradictions within the man. If we dismiss Lincoln as a racist, then that is the end of the story because he was no different from the proslavery Douglas, for example, and there is no point in investigating the matter any further.

It is important to remember that human beings — in the present as well as in the past — are flawed, complicated and contradictory.

Lincoln was not immune from the complexities of human nature. In the end, the limitations of Lincoln’s own racial perspectives were an indictment of the larger society.

Much of American history was not pretty, but the complexities and the contradictions of the various historical experiences of the human condition provide a much more truthful picture of our racist past than does boiling down the details into one word with which we are only beginning to come to grips.

https://www.nprillinois.org/statehouse/2004-02-01/lincoln-race-the-great-emancipator-didnt-advocate-racial-equality-but-was-he-a-racist