Lincoln vs. Jackson: Who was the Better President?

I personally don’t believe that he was as contrite and pure-hearted as many people think, because of the fact that releasing the slaves was not included in his war plans. If Jackson had been firmly for the cause of abolitionism, I have no doubt in my mind that it would have been abolished without war because he had such a strong hold over the states of the Union. Although slavery was abolished completely at the end of the war, and its demise backed up by a Constitutional amendment, Lincoln was already dead by the time the amendment was passed. I do not believe Lincoln was a strong President at all, but rather a weak President who happened to find a general capable of winning the war for him, and then was immortalized by being assassinated. In all honesty, even his general, Ulysses S. Grant, would not have hoped to win a single battle if it were not for his massive amounts of troops in comparison to Lee’s fairly small forces. I have no doubt in my mind that the war would have been a complete loss by Lincoln if it had been the North which revolted, and I don’t think that teachers would be preaching to elementary-school children about Lincoln being the Savior of the Negro populous.

As a whole, I believe that Lincoln and Jackson were both good Presidents, but that Jackson was far superior in many ways when compared to Abraham Lincoln. He was a much stronger President in the face of war, he was supported whole-heartedly by most of America, and he stood his ground when he was confronted, rather than giving ground to his enemies again and again.