[WhiskeyPapa]

In the meantime, I will simply note that you have yet to respond to ...Lincoln's own words in which he described the very same action he later undertook as both coercion and invasion.

It came after many disloyal and traitorous acts by the so-called seceded states.

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

It came after many disloyal and traitorous acts by the so-called seceded states.

In your mind. In reality, the south simply sought to separate itself from its previous political affiliation. The Lincoln acted to stop that separation and in doing so committed widescale acts of invasion and coercion per his own definitions of those two words.