Here’s what is really odd about these Lincoln Lovers. They actually think that the South was an existential threat to the North. They have this preposterous notion that the South could have militarily beaten the North. It is crazy. The South’s strategy was statement followed by a negotiated peace. They use the PA and KY invasions as some kind of reason to believe that the South was going to conquer and occupy the North! Like I said it’s crazy what these people think. They think what they need to think to believe that their side did the right thing. They are like the Germans who refused to believe the Holocaust. They can't wrap their minds around the truth of it.
They can't accept the notion that they were the bad guys.
Your apparent ongoing need to vilify the motives of the people in the Confederate States is hardly a constructive way to promote good feelings among Americans. Do you also condemn the Brits who voted for Brexit, or do you believe it is only "bad" for American States to wish to leave a Union?
The independence minded Brits were never subjected to the ongoing insults that were showered on the Southern States by some agitators during the 1840s & 1850s. But that does not change the right of any people to seek to chart their own destiny--or to regain a former independence.