I tend to wonder how Lincoln fans would feel if a modern President were to decide to call up an army and lay waste to their neighbors over the most divisive political issue of their time. I doubt that they would be convinced of his good heart because of his pleasing rhetoric. Killing your opposition to force them to comply is something we abhor when we see it in other nations. Here, we build a temple to the culprit in a fashion that a Caesar deifying Roman would recognize.
Aside from the question of who exactly it was in 1861 that called up an army and commenced hostilities first, how would you feel if today the abortion-minded decided to secede, and raise a rebel army, and fire at federal troops, because they thought their particular bloody trade was threatened by the election of a candidate who seriously opposed the murder of babies?