He's doing the Confederates a courtesy by assuming that they did not actually want the war that they started. So much for doing favors to those who don't deserve them.
This twisted Goebellesque remark by the Illinois Butcher™ was typical BS from a hated President.
Hard to tell if you mean Joseph Goebbels or George Gobel in this sentence.
Either way, it's the same illiterate garbage as always.
A pretty high percentage of them in major Confederate states like Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia wanted no part of secession. They well knew it would mean war, just as most in the North knew it would mean war.
None expected the war would be as horrible as it was, but all informed people, both North and South, including the rabid secessionist leaders knew damn well it would mean war. They just allowed their egos to convince them that they would have an easy victory.
And the war, which was pretty much hard wired to explode since the founding of this country, came and extracted a terrible vengeance.
Back to Lincoln's second Inaugural address.
Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."