I now know he was an opportunistic tyrant that suspended the bill of rights and ultimately destroyed the concept of the United States -- that States were UNITED and INDEPENDENT.
May he burn in hell.
I think the states that pulled out of the Union because they didnt like the way the election of 1860 turned out, and were afraid that they could no longer force the entirety of the union to continue to support their force servitude of human beings, shoulders the blame.
Not to mention that most of the secessionist conventions were wholly undemocratic and used intimidation to get the results they wanted, nor was Lincoln even pushing to end slavery!
Secession is a legitimate instrument that was wasted on the idiots of the CSA who couldn’t even string together a coherent reason to explain why they were supposedly being oppressed.