Motley, You're a clever writer but your attacks on Lincoln as a "pig" go far beyond civility or accuracy.  If you had the entire collected works of all Lincoln's writings and read and reread them as I do, you'd see you are taking a few odd quotes out of context and totally missing the essence of the Man.  They are great for shock value but totally unfair.  Unlike Deady, Lincoln  was far ahead of the crowd on slavery; though he'd been raised with the typical racist beliefs his guiding star was the Declaration of Independence, with its solemn oath  "All men are created equal."

But for  major SHOCK value, you'll  have to go some to beat this quote from a February  18 column  in the Eugene Weekly:
"Negro History Week started as an internal Negro Community Celebration, remembering the birthday and the difference between Frederick Douglass (my personal favorite Republican) and Lincoln (my least favorite Republican who edges out Ben Carson and Donald Trump). "