Lincoln was a white supremicist and one of this countries worst, most unconstitutional presidents.

1) I'm not sure how you can possibly say that Lincoln, who despite common feelings of superiority did the right thing in the end and freed the slaves, was more racist than all of the people who actually owned and abused slaves. A) I've already acknowledged that freeing the slaves was a secondary issue. Freeing only the southern slaves was a war tactic because many of them joined the northern army and it discouraged slave owners from joining the southern cause because they now had a plantation to run without any workers (of course that is only the logic behind freeing them, at present I have no evidence saying that it was or wasn't effective). Freeing the northern slaves at that time would have created political backlash among northern slave owners. Even with the suspension of habeas corpus it would have required the diversion of resources to round them up, plus if they were in jail they couldn't be out on the battlefield fighting the war. Thus it was much more rational to wait to free them until after the war, which he of course did with the thirteenth amendment. B) I never said that Liberia was paradise, but at least by sending them there they could establish their own government and live free from discrimination. As for sending them to Panama, I doubt Lincoln had an extensive knowledge of the living conditions and his reasoning for sending them their rather than Liberia probably had something to do with transportation costs, but the concept remains the same that they could have established their own government and lived free from discrimination. There is absolutely no evidence that the motives of the ACS were in any way racist. C) Neither of these quotes suggest that "white blood should not be contaminated with blacks," they both simply show that Lincoln shared many of the beliefs that were instilled in him by the society in which he grew up. Specifically on the second one which talks about preservation of the union coming before freeing the slaves: I've already acknowledged that this is true. Lincoln's primary concern was preservation of the Union and he didn't want to free the slaves because of the political backlash that would cause, but as the war unfolded it became necessary to release those in the South and then post-war with sentiment in his favor, he was able to free the rest without the risk of backlash and thus did so. 2) I'll grant that the constitutional violations occurred and stick to the arguments that these are relatively minor violations compared to other presidents and in some cases can even be justified. A) I've granted that these people were rounded up and put in jail without due process, but the average span of detainment was 2-3 months and all of them were released by February 1862, well under a year after the arrests began. This is nothing compared to the FDR's Japanese concentration camps during WWII, Gitmo and other military prisons of today, and the actions to round up political prisoners by other presidents during various other wars. B) He did not want to preserve the Union simply to preserve his own power (although I'll grant that that probably played into it a little bit, because who doesn't want power?), but also to maintain the advantage of a diverse economy (by allowing states to secede the north would have been predominately manufacturing and the south predominately ag) and to maintain the military benefits of a larger nation (the United States would be much more suseptible to attack without such a large military [sorry for the mispelling of suseptible, that word always gets me]). C) (Formerly point D) So are you suggesting that every time the federal government wants to impose a tax that would effect my state more than others, I should advocate seccesion before all other means of stopping it are exhausted? D) (Formerly E) Like I said, states and the federal government must check eachother. The only way that a system of checks and balances can work is if both sides have a check. If the states could check federal but not the other way around then the states could run rampant on our rights, as they did on the rights of the blacks before the civil war.