Lincoln was a blood thirsty tyrant.
States acceded with a stroke of a pen - Left with a stroke of a pen.
At NO time did our Founders condone the use of force against a seceding state.
Madison:
“A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. ?The use of force against a State, would look more like a declaration of war, than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.”
If what you say is true and not just hyperventilation, then the South should have petitioned the Supreme Court (which was controlled by Southerners) to secede.
Problem solved.
Also James Madison:
"It is not usual to answer communications without the proper names to them. But the ability and the motives disclosed in the Essays induce me to say in compliance with the wish expressed, that I do not consider the proceedings of Virginia in ’98-’99 as countenancing the doctrine that a state may at will secede from its Constitutional compact with the other States. A rightful secession requires the consent of the others, or an abuse of the compact, absolving the seceding party from the obligations imposed by it."