States need to start their own volunteer militia's!!

[Kathianne]

I'm missing your point here. Southern States didn't vote for Lincoln because of his policy of no expansion of slavery which meant that there equality in Congress as group would slowly be eroded.

They were NOT against him because he advocated abolishing slavery altogether, because in 1860 he certainly did not. Or more correctly he did not publicly. Privately he did abhor slavery, or so history tells us.

Geez, have you never looked at the results of the 1860 election? Not one Southern electoral vote for Lincoln, I'm not digging up all the stats, but he wasn't even on the ballot in many Southern states. There was a de facto revolt and raising of Confederacy prior to that election. The South knew their reality, either a separate state or the 'peculiar institution' was going to die. So they chose war.