I would necessarily interpret it to celebrate Might Makes Right and, incidentally, to celebrate The End Justifies the Means.
Dishonest Abe said whatever was necessary to bamboozle an unwilling public into following his lead. The Southland is seceding, boys, Rally 'Round the Flag! And, ummm, (two years later) let's end slavery too at least in places where I can't enforce abolition. Leave my sister-in-law's slaves alone and those of Grant's wife, and the ones in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri because those are OUR slaves.
Ain't Dishonest Abe quite the moral hero? Sorry about those 600,000 dead soldiers and those maimed and wounded and civilian casualties and the carnage wreaked by Sherman's March to the Sea including the burning of Atlanta and the looting of the homes and assets of the Southland. But, hey, like Lenin would later say, If you want omelets, ya gotta break some eggs. Right? Besides, those weren't Abe's personal eggs.
Go back and reread #346 - you've just set the gold standard for incomprehensibility.
Both of your idiotic idioms more appropriately suit the actions of the southron slavers, not the north. The slavers were impetuous, petulant, aggressive, and confrontational. A lot of that may have been due to the feckless Buchanan encouraging their misbehavior but only a tiny bit.
Most of the blame, and most of the onus rests squarely on the slavers.