>>So if he let the country fall apart and the slavers take all the federal property they could, he’d have been a better president?
So, in your mind, there are only the two alternatives? Nothing in the middle? No compromise? If those are the only two choices, then he should have given up the “federal property” that was located INSIDE the states. Prior to Lincoln, people thought of our nation as “these United States”. After Lincoln, it was “the United States”. He destroyed the nation founded as a republic of sovereign states in favor of the federal behemoth we now have that makes all states, counties, and citizens subservient.
Or they wanted Lincoln to just crumple up and give in to their demands.
Lincoln did what we expect any American president to do -- keep his oath to the Constitition and be firm in the face of threats.