Lincoln dedicated his political career to the establishment of a corrupt system of high tariffs and corporate subsidies, and he was willing to plunge the nation into a bloody cataclysm in order to achieve his life long political aspirations.He suspended habaes corpus not for Southern soldiers but for Northern Newspaper editors who wrote supporting the peace effort,they were thrown in jail for 3-4 years,he closed down the free press,he was responsible for the largest mass murder of sioux Indians not on the battle field,as a compromise he killed innocent people. and many more war crimes that put him in the same light with Stalin, Mao, Khmer Rouge,and Hitler.he killed civilian populations,and too many war crimes to name in this short response.