While you, on the other hand, want to promote the myth that it was all Lincoln's fault and the South was blameless. So where does that leave us?
A man in his own house has certain privileges that someone coming into his house does not. It is his prerogative to demand that "guests" leave his house.
The entire crux of the matter is whether States have a right to be independent of a government they see as no longer serving their interests, and the foundation document of this nation answers that question in the affirmative.
If they do have the right to be independent, then what they did was reasonable and proper. Lincoln had no right to force them to continue abiding by his rule.
And you never did answer my question as to why anyone would want those D@mn slave states in their union anyway?
Why would anyone want those D@mn slave states in their Union?