Remember when Ron Paul was on Meet the Press and the media laughed at him for suggesting that ending slavery could have been handled better by buying their freedom? Well, it seems Abe Lincoln himself agreed with Ron Paul that buying the slaves freedom would be preferable to a prolonged civil war.
I haven't read it yet, but DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln" is on my list of books to buy. http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761536418 .
Only uneducated yankees look up to Lincoln as if he was some hero. I would say he was definitely one of our worst presidents if not the worst.
Oh geez man, how much time do you have? Read this, http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo12.html Excerpt
Don't worry, i used to be brainwashed too. You can thank the good American school system for that, and their uneducated, mislead staff, who know not a squash of history.