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.
>>Jefferson Davis wanted war. The hotheads in Charleston wanted war.
They wanted to secede. Lincoln made it clear that he would not permit that, even if it required killing Americans and occupying sovereign states. That’s what inflamed those “hotheads”. He was a lot like a modern Progressive in his attitudes toward those whom he considered less enlightened.
And, the northern industrialists had a steady supply of desperate and poor Irish to work as rented and expendable near-slaves, so Lincoln had them at his back.