Not so. Lincoln also looked to the future as evidenced in his speeches and by the Amendment not tagging the Confederates specifically.
Originalists on SCOTUS will focus on all of this and be guided by it.
The younest of my grandparents was born in 1900. I know that they would all read rules and regulations plainly with the intent of the rule guiding them. The 19th Century people I knew were practical and straight forward and not into the semantic bull crap that Trump is trying on.
