Except that he is very, very wrong in saying that Lincoln was anti states-rights and the fact that he said it and you agree with him proves two things:
1) you both have no concept or knowledge of history outside of general conventional wisdom that is of a 1st grade level (literally)
2) you are puppets of the democrat party and believe whatever they tell you without actually looking into things for yourself.
The democrat party in the 1850's began using the "states rights!" cry to associate slave ownership with state rights, it was never a "state right" to own slaves, it was a national right, and quite frankly slavery was never threatened by the federal government until the emancipation proclamation in 1863 after the Civil War had begun. It was actually national protection that allowed people to own slaves--it was at the time constitutionally protected (national), the three-fifths clause (national) helped those who were pro slavery keep their representation higher, and the fugitive slave act (national) mandated the return of run-away slaves. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT was protecting slavery, not states. In fact, the northern states had THEIR state rights taken away by not being able to have their own laws regarding runaway slaves, they were forced by the federal government to return them, and those involved in the underground railroad were subject to criminal prosecution. Ableman vs. Booth was a supreme court decision that guaranteed northern states had to follow federal laws on subjects of slavery, the opinion written by a true slave-loving democrat judge, and we all know about Dred Scott, another FEDERAL decision that offended states (and individual) rights, not protected them.
Democrats bastardized the term to use as a rallying cry and Lincoln saw right past it. Democrats today do the same thing--"Lincoln wasn't pro state rights!" which is nonsense, considering there is nothing that says a federal government can't reclaim states that have left the union and formed their own country in the constitution.
Lincoln was very much pro states-rights, as evidenced by his famous "A House divided against itself cannot stand" speech, which was given before he was president in reaction to the Dred Scott decision. In fact, there is a line in that speech that says Lincoln is afraid the Court would eventually rule that our Constitution "does not permit a state to exclude slavery from it's limits". And there's this part, too...“We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their state free, and we shall awake to the reality, instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave state.” Sure sounds like in regards to slavery, Lincoln was very much for state rights and feared the feds would make the U.S. support slavery regardless of state, as they were slowly doing. Lincoln spoke many times while in the Senate and during his presidential campaign that he was afraid the Feds were encroaching on state's rights.
Lincolns election made the democrats go haywire, and let's look at Mississippi's secession declaration to find out why: "Northern states have enacted laws which either nullify Acts of Congress (federal!) or render useless any attempt to execute them." Another state said in their secession that republicans were committing "offenses against the laws of nations." Doesn't sound like state rights to me. Even a look at the Confederate constitution will show us that when it comes to slavery and democrats, state rights were out and national power was in.
Lincoln was a true federalist and not in favor of a unitary government. He believed in James Madison's ideas of federalism--which for you uneducated people is the concept of strong state rights with a national government. Any in depth education on Lincoln would prove that undeniable.
In short, learn some friggin history for a change. (Que the response "didn't read it, too long, etc." that has no rebuttal because you know you are defeated based on fact and not feeling)
Liberalism is a mental illness, and it's the only one that's contagious.
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