Which is great and all but the number of Northerners, white and black, and Southerners white and black who died that "though he may be poor not a man shall be a slave" overrode these people and Lincoln won decisive re-election on this basis. While the Copperheads' ties to the Confederacy temporarily discredited them and the postwar consensus saw even the KKK fully aware that slavery was not simply nearly dead but truly and most sincerely dead.