His intent to abolish slavery was an act of war. You yankee apologist don't realize that abolition translated into economic terror for the south. Such an act would have thrown the southern economy into depression of unparalleled proportion.
A good analogy, would be if some southern environmentalist in 1860 forced every manufactuer type industry in the north to close. How would have that have gone over?
I don’t see his intent to do away with slavery where it existed before the rebellion. Surely you can help me with that.
By contrast, would the intent of slavery to force slavery on northern states be an act of war?