Let me get this off of my chest.  I am a democrat, with a capital D!  Maybe, once long ago, I might have been a republican.  When Lincoln was a republican he represented the party of the little man, he was for a relatively strong Federal government that would work to protect the rights of the disenfranchised, the uninitiated, the poor.  Lincoln objected to the aristocratic leanings of the old world, where family money would pass unencumbered from genera...