[thecavemaster]

Lincoln only cared to end slavery to end southern prosperity in the cotton industry. He constantly referred to blacks as "N's" in public speeches, even as president. He wanted blacks to be banned from moving into the new west. He truthfully favored shipping them back to Africa.
Once again the civil war was not over slavery it was a war between the industrial north and the cotton states. Note that 5 slave states fought for the north. With the expansion of the west, the southern states wanted to expand slavery into those states, while the northern states opposed it, fearing they would lose more power. Lincoln did oppose the expansion of slavery to these new territiories. However, he wanted to keep blacks out of those areas altogether.

So yes I do believe Lincoln was indifferent to slavery as a practice. The union invasion was a clear violation of the consitution. Every state has the right to secceed. Hopefully Oklahoma does soon, allowing a few other states, maybe Kentucky if we are lucky to do the same.

It seems to me that Carl Sandberg and Stephen Oates are far better biographers of Lincoln than whatever sources you are reading...the overwhelming weight of authentic scholarship suggests Lincoln was, yes, a man of him time, but also a man way ahead of his time. Threats "foreign and domestic" are within federal government sovereignty. I think enslaving other human beings within US territory is perhaps a domestic threat.