Lincoln and Hamlin?

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Hamlin was always pushing for more black emancipation and the use of black troops. Lincoln fired Cameron for this (plus his corruption) and recalled the orders of Fremont in Missouri and Hunter in SC for using blacks as soldiers "prematurely." Hamlin may have fallen to the same axe in the end.

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as Murray Rothbard once said, "Lincoln was a master politician, which means that he was a consummate conniver, manipulator, and liar." One not read that as a criticism but as a virue in politics

I don't know who Murray Rothbard is/was, but I agree with him -- and I guess quoted him without knowing it. I get bogged down every time I try to understand Lincoln's (and others') politics, but the little I know about Lincoln makes me admire him and not trust him in the same breath.