Because that's ALL the Lincoln was concerned with. In his 1st inaugural speech he stated that the South could leave, no troops would be sent to coerce her. But if the MONEY was not received - it was WAR!!!
LINCOLN: Show me the MONEY!!!!!
If the rebs were really principled champions of self-government it seems ironic that they fought so hard against the right of self government for their slaves.
Which explains why the US Constitution (ratified by EVERY Yankee state) protected slavery? Why Lincoln stated that the fugitive laws would be upheld, and explains why all those Yankees sailed to Africa to purchase them right?
But the thing would have never got started if the Deep South idiots had not abandoned all political common sense in an effort to safeguard their beloved institution of slavery-the cornerstone of the Confederacy.
Nonsense. The NORTH refused to lower tariffs (they raised them to their highest levels), and refused to abide by the Constitution regarding slavery. Congress, without confederate representatives in attendence, refused to compromise on anything. The Constitution was a legal agreement which yankees disregarded for decades. The South simply had enough of yankee hypocrisy.
"Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly impracticable withal that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such offices. The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union."
Actually it was all about appointing judges and delivering the mail.
LINCOLN: Neither rain nor sleet or snow nor rebellious local yokels shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. It's the post office motto, look it up.