Can't come up with anything to defend his actions, huh? That's OK. I honestly can't see how you or anyone else could.
Jefferson Davis did what he did with the approval of the Confederate Congress. And though some things were indeed regretable, he was not the born politician Lincoln was, nor the Dictator.
And if I tried to use that same justification for the actions that you criticize Lincoln for you would laugh me right off the forum. Davis did what he did in defiance of the requirements of the confederate constitution and in the face of opposition from those governors who actually believed that state's rights mattered. And as for Dictator, I would point out that Lincoln ran in and won two presidential elections. Davis, on the other hand, never once won an election where he had an opponent. Not for congress, not senate, not president of the confederacy.