Check out the book The Crimes of the Civil war. You may look at Lincoln in a different light after reading the book.
Written by a Northern lawyer, this suppressed book exposes the despotism of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party and unmasks the unconstitutional alliance between the U.S. Government and the great body of bankers and bondholders which resulted in the creation of the national banking system and a mushrooming national debt.
http://www.crownrights.com/books/crimes_and_curse.htm