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Any state that entered into the United States approving the Constitution as their Law agreed that changes to that agreement had to be in the manner of that Constitution.

The Constitution does not supersede the natural law right of Independence. The framers of the constitution understood natural law, and nothing they wrote in the constitution is contrary to natural law.

In simple terms, the constitution does not attempt to deny the natural right to independence. It's requirements only apply to those who consent to remain under it.

Leave the Union via a lawful, legal way, or expect repercussions.

The people of a state deciding they no longer wish to be part of the Union *IS* a lawful legal way of leaving the Union. It is the manner in which the 13 states left the United Kingdom, and it just as valid to leave the subsequent government.

Those states that unilaterally left immediately after Lincoln was voted in on Election Day left without even a vote around it.

That is incorrect. All states that left, had an election on secession, and the people chose to secede.

There was no authority to do so within the Constitution...

It is a natural law right, given by God, and not subject to man's approval. The constitution has no authority to deny this natural law right. Even Lincoln believed this at one time.

Lincoln's speech to Congress regarding Texas independence from Mexico. (1848)

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,—most sacred right—a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement. Such minority, was precisely the case, of the tories of our own revolution.

and the Declaration of Independence literally describes the need for “redress” to any issues.

You are misconstruing it. It says "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

Notice it isn't a requirement it is a suggestion.

Before that it says: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them...

Notice the word "Entitle"? That means it is their *RIGHT*.

When you unilaterally leave your agreement without going through the allowed options for redress

They spent 40 years or more trying to redress the issue. The Northern coalition would make laws that favored themselves against the best interests of the Southern states, and after 40 years of it, the South had finally had enough. The South had been paying 72% of all the taxes and all the money was getting spent in the North. The South acquired no benefit whatsoever from being a member of the "Union." It was a money loss every way you looked at it.

The CSA abandoned the US and became Enemies in War, and lost that war.

Since Abraham Lincoln launched an attack against them, they had no choice but to be enemies. When a man wants to make war against you, you will be his enemy no matter how much you want peace. And yes, the 4 times bigger bully nation won, and they won because they were 4 times bigger. This doesn't make their conquest right.