LFsolutions, I'd say you are basically correct regarding Lincoln.  Mark Harris has brought on an interesting discussion based on his dislike of Lincoln.  A year ago Harris wrote that Lincoln is "my least favorite Republican who edges out Ben Carson and Donald Trump."
Mark's main issue was  Lincoln's original support of colonization-- an idea often considered, in fact, Lincoln's worst plan ever.
Colonization had been favored for years by many abolitionists  as the only way to end slavery.  Lincoln, seeing that even his own state of Illinois passed a Negro Exclusion act similar to Oregon's, feared that most white people simply would not accept free blacks among them.
As his #1 passion for years had been to end slavery, colonization seemed  feasible.  However, after meeting  with a group of black leaders who ridiculed the plan, he dropped it.
A good,, balanced view of AL:
Ronald E. Franklin  https://owlcation.com/humanities/Why-Frederick-Douglass-despised-then-loved-Abraham-Lincoln