[WhiskeyPapa]

Since when was abstaining from marching an invasion army on Richmond not a choice to Lincoln?

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

-- A. Lincoln 3/4/61

Walt

[GOPcapitalist]

"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." -- A. Lincoln 3/4/61

In other words, Lincoln himself is spewing the same line of argument Non-Seq just tried.

Forget responsibility for one's own actions. "The South made Lincoln do it"