Or are we glossing over that part?
FWIW, I'm not inclined to do that.
Well if you are going to go that route, than so was George Washington and the other founders. The only difference between them and the Confederates is that Mad King George III decided to stop the bloodshed after he had lost 15,000 men.
King Lincoln kept the carnage going until 750,000 people had been killed and the South had been turned into a massive starving wasteland.
Lincoln was no King, he was the duly elected President of the United States of America.