"Had not the South taken up arms to protect their "peculiar way of life" enslaving other human beings, Lincoln would not have had to defend the Union and the Constitution against the attack."
Normally one would be inclined to remark on the limitations on your educational system, but that one sentence is more than just stupid.
"Peculiar way of life"? You ignore the fact that the day that Lincoln was inaugurated, the Stars and Stripes were flying over Northern owned slave ships carrying slaves to Caribbean destinations.
It was also true that Lincoln's new job would pay a salary financed by money raised from the sale of slave produced goods.
"But Lincoln himself regretted with blood-laced sweat that Thomas Jefferson didn't take care of the immoral slave issue at the start."
Jefferson and others tried, but the New England interests were stubborn about their "peculiar trade". In the interest of Union, Jefferson and others acceded to the wishes of the North.
Uh, my "educational system" aside -- the South fired the first shots at the North. The South seceded before Lincoln took office. The South had no moral imperative for their fight -- i.e. they were not defending the purely American idea of "all men are created equal" (despite Dredd Scott) -- they simply were fighting to maintain their peculiarly aristocratic and immoral economy.
The proof is that there were no eloquent "Declaration of Independence" written by any Confederate "founding father". There was no defense for the indefensible except a scrappy dirty dogfight that cost more American lives than any other war.
And are you saying that the government was in the slave trade business or are you trying to say that private Northern concerns were in the international slave trade business? In any case, what was the point in saying that "Lincoln's new job would pay a salary financed by money raised from the sale of slave produced goods?"