Because Lincoln was in a position that he advertised as taking care that the laws be executed? Because he was the one who insisted that federal writ must continue to run inviolate in States that had left the Union?
Because the Confederates had the larger task, and the broader radius of action, of creating a new Confederacy and Government de novo under conditions of greater exigency that admitted of no delay, but allowed a broader toleration for compromises of ee.g. juridical and fiscal scruple?
You mean the states that rebelled, don't you?
Because the Confederates had the larger task, and the broader radius of action, of creating a new Confederacy and Government de novo under conditions of greater exigency that admitted of no delay, but allowed a broader toleration for compromises of ee.g. juridical and fiscal scruple?
So the ends justified the means? You claim that you left the Union, in part because of what you saw as Constitutional violations of the Fugitive Slave acts, but Constitutional violations of your own were justified. Why am I not surprised that you would cook up some justification?
Oh, Lincoln had to sit by while the South had 4 months to take over forts and treasuries.
He had to deal with treason in his own Army, and in fact, he had no army to speak of.
And Lincoln is the one who is the evil tyrant, while Davis gets a free pass?
Both men faced extreme conditions and had to use extreme methods.
If you are going to damn one you have to damn the other.