Secession was triggered by the election of Lincoln. The pro-slavery element was losing ground, so the secessionists made a power grab to establish a new government conceived in slavery and dedicated to the proposition that all men are not created equal.
Hold your horses there, Kangapoo poo! What kind of Arianna Huffington impostor do you think you are? Only she is allowed such stupidity!
Have you "yankee doodled" over what your hero has said? Let me remind you:
"I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary."
In the Conkling letter before mentioned, I said: “Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union, if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it will be an apt time then to declare that you will not fight to free Negroes.” I repeat this now. If Jefferson Davis wishes, for himself, or for the benefit of his friends at the North, to know what I would do if he were to offer peace and reunion, saying nothing about slavery, let him try me (…).
"Fellow citizens, I presume you all know who I am-I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My policies are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a National Bank, I am in favor of the Internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected I shall be thankful; and if not, it will be all the same."
“Why should people of your race be colonized, and where? Why should they leave this country? You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between anyother two races. Whether it is right or wrong, I need not discuss; but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think. Your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while we suffer from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason, at least, why we should be separated.”
Abrafart Lincoln