If Lincoln has said sayonara to those seven states the most likely result is he would have been impeached and removed by the Republican Congress and his VP would have then suppress the rebellion.
What all of you bro-confederates keep forgetting is that the Republicans in Congress believed secesssion was illegal and approved of and passed laws supporting Lincoln’s suppression of it.
“What all of you bro-confederates”
Does the name calling make your argument work better? Seems to be habitual.