With Blair from Missouri in his cabinet probably keeping him posted about Missouri and with the need to keep all border states in the Union? You'd have us believe Lincoln was the Alfred E. Newman of his day.
From the following site Missouri Before The War
February 28, March 4-9, 1861. Meeting first at Jefferson City and then St. Louis, the Missouri convention votes overwhelmingly against secession, but also passes resolutions condemning any effort by the North to coerce the seceding states.
Sounds exactly like Virginia. By your logic, I guess Lincoln was not worried about Virginia seceding either.
An excerpt from a book by Snead on that same site:
An event which happened on the day that Lincoln was inaugurated, and on which the State Convention began its sessions at St. Louis (March 4th), came very near precipitating the conflict in Missouri, and gave Blair [rb: Frank Blair, brother of Lincoln's cabinet member] and Lyon good cause to press their demands upon the Government.
During the preceding night some of the Minute Men (Duke, Green, Quinlan, Champion, and McCoy) raised the flag of Missouri over the dome of the Courthouse, and hoisted above their own headquarters a nondescript banner, which was intended to represent the flag of the Confederate States. The custodian of the Courthouse removed the state flag from that building early in the morning; but the secession flag still floated audaciously and defiantly above the Minute Men’s headquarters, in the very face of the Submissionists’ Convention, of the Republican Mayor, and his German police, of the department commander, and of Lyon and his Home Guards; and under its folds there was gathered as daring a set of young fellows as ever did a bold, or a reckless deed. They were about a score at first, but when an excited crowd began to threaten their quarters, and the rumor to fly that the Home Guards were coming to tear down their flag, the number of its defenders grew to about one hundred. ...
Everything betokened a terrible riot and a bloody fight. The civil authorities were powerless. It was to no purpose that they implored the crowd to disperse; in vain that they begged the Minute Men to haul down their flag. The police could do nothing. The Home Guards did not dare to attack, for their leaders knew that the first shot that was fired would bring Frost’s Brigade, which was largely composed of Minute Men, to the aid of their friends, and that they would also be reinforced by the Irish, between whom and the German Home Guards there was the antipathy of both race and religion. Only once did any one venture to approach the well-guarded portals of the stronghold. The rash fools that did it were hurled back into the street, amid the jeers and laughter of the crowd. Blair and the Republican leaders, unwilling to provoke a conflict, kept their followers quiet, and finally towards midnight the crowd dispersed.
And what part of that supports your paranoid ramblings about Lincoln taking time out to personally see to it that half a dozen slaves got shipped back South?