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Sorry, but preserving the union isn't one of the prescribed duties of the President according to the Constitution. What does the oath of office have to say about union preservation? Couldn't Lincoln have preserved the union he had left after the Southern states left over his election? Why did he think he should preserve the union that existed before the day he stumbled onto the stage and half the actors left in disgust?

I think Lincoln would have far fewer critics had he taken his oath of office to heart and applied himself to protecting and defending the Constitution. He had little use for that document and was much more interested in exercising powers not granted him by the Constitution.

Poor Lincoln. He married a madwoman, carried on an affair with a man for most of his adult life, and scoffed relentlessly at religion until the day he got what he deserved. To top it all off, he was the hero of Marx, Engels and the other early communists, and is venerated to this day by that same sort, who are the political descendants of the people in his own party who very likely plotted his death. Imagine his shock when he died and learned that the God he had mocked was real.

If he had it to do over, would he do as he did?