This is true, so therefore what I initially posted is true-Licoln apparently didn’t believe in the right of a free people to determine their own government, even though he stated thus himself, as he took all measures to prevent the South from doing just that, including mercenary soldiers. What he really subscribed to was “Might makes right”.
Well, what you’re really talking about here is the Natural Right of Rebellion. James Madison talked about it as well, saying that, while unilateral secession was a violation of a trust, there was no “theoretic controversy” about the right of rebellion. It is indeed a “might makes right” matter.