“Lets put it this way. South Carolina was once part of the Confederacy. Which was a different country”
Lincoln never recognized the Confederacy as a separate country.
But the citizens of South Carolina in 1862 (and now) sure viewed the Confederacy as a different country.
Of course not. But pray tell, then, why he turned early and often to "the final argument of kings", and appealed to the arbitrament of the sword.