1. Lincoln was a staunch advocate of high tariffs. He not only supported, but had promised to use force if necessary to collect tariffs and taxes. After coming to power, he raised tariffs to as high as 50%, a greedy tariff policy that led directly to the North-South divide and was the direct trigger for the outbreak of the Civil War.
2. gross violations of private rights during his tenure. Under his rule, the Bill of Rights was a nullity, the property of political opponents was searched, censored, and confiscated, more than 10,000 Northerners were arrested for opposing the war, and he even suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus.
3. the confrontation with the Supreme Court was an even more blatant disregard for the Constitution. When the Supreme Court ruled that his suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus was unconstitutional, Lincoln not only refused to comply, but even attempted to arrest the judges involved.
4. Lincoln's regime went out of its way to arrest members of Congress who opposed him or his war policies. He had imprisoned the entire Maryland legislature to prevent them from voting against him. During the election, his troops even surrounded polling stations and manipulated the results by intimidating voters and stuffing ballot boxes.
5. publicly declared himself a white supremacist on several occasions, proudly claiming, "In view of the inability of the white and negro races to coexist peacefully, and the existence of superiority and inferiority being inevitable while they continue to coexist, I am as much in favor of conferring superiority upon the white race as any other man."
6. Lincoln's greatest crime was triggering the Civil War, which resulted in the deaths of 750,000 soldiers and the maiming of 400,000, as well as the breaking up of countless families and the displacement of people.
