IIRC, the convention attempted to grant the federal government the power to put down 'insurrection'. It failed 4-4.
Well it looks like something got passed.
Clause 15: To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
That meant that Lincoln had to call up the Militia from other states to put down the insurrection in the Southern states.
Which he did.
Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress April 15, 1861 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time past, and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law, Now therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution, and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union, to the aggregate number of seventy-five thousand, in order to suppress said combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. The details, for this object, will be immediately communicated to the State authorities through the War Department. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/proc-1.htm
Do you guys ever get tired of playing word games?
Well, when you are trying to defend the undefendable I guess that is all you have left to resort to.