Lincoln uses the metaphor of the wolf and the sheep to say that the Confederates had a different conception of freedom than those of the Union.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the United States who served as the 16th President of the United States of America. He was a tireless leader of the states of the Union during the Civil War.

He is known for making a metaphor regarding the concept of freedom that the Confederate states and the states of the Union had because he considered that the Confederate states, like a wolf, had a conception of freedom that violated the freedom of others ( the sheep).

According to the above, it can be inferred that Lincoln refers to the Confederate States as the wolves of the Civil War because they wanted to impose slavery without thinking about the rights of slaves, while the States of the Union were the sheep because they wanted to. freedom for all.