So you're saying that once the Confederacy started the war then Lincoln should have immediately surrendered? Would it have been better if Roosevelt had surrendered immediately after Pearl Harbor rather than sacrifice the several hundred thousand U.S. servicemen that World War II cost?
The war started in 1856 in Missouri and Kansas. Read your documented history and note when Lincoln gained power he began stirring the war pot going on between these two states. This border war was the precursor and was started by people primarily from Massachusetts.