Conscription for Lincoln's war was slavery of the worst kind. The bloodshed was appalling. Lincoln should have allowed a peaceful secession instead of trying to maintain a military stronghold to tax confederate trade in the middle of a major port.

Unfortunately, abolitionists were a minority even in the North, and it wasn't until Lincoln turned the rhetoric toward a moralistic crusade against slavery in his bid for reelection that people started to see it as a patriotic duty to oppose chattel slavery. I think that infection of statism did a lot of harm, and of course, Jim Crow demonstrated the State's opposition to free blacks for decades after.