I give you one out of three on your response. Yes, Lincoln did, without congressional approval suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus. “Scores of confederate soldiers starved to death in Yankee prisons”. Can you say Andersonville. Neither the United States nor the Confederacy can claim the least bit of moral high ground when it comes to the way prisoners of war were treated, both sides were equally brutal. You mean the Buchanan administration failed to redress Southern grievances. Lincoln did not become President of the United States until March 4 1861. By that date, Georgia, S.Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas had all seceded from the Union. What court actions had these states initiated to redress their grievances? What legislation did their Senators and Representatives introduce into Congress to redress their grievances? For that fact what grievances were so dire that secession was the only answer, not the courts nor the Legislature could redress. IMO, the Democrats in the South panicked when Lincoln was elected. A Republican President, House and Senate were seen as a direct threat to the institution of slavery as it existed in the South.
You really think slavery was the reason. Hahahahahaha. Public school. Nice.