Motley- "You have conflated my remarks."   Nope, no conflation, just correction.

You wrote that BOTH  Lincoln and Deady "were actually quite in tune with the beliefs of the day.”.
I am disagreeing.  I am saying that on slavery,  THE issue  of the day, NEITHER were "quite in tune" in tune with their constituencies.  
Deady was more pro-slavery.  Lincoln was more anti-slavery.