I never said that you couldn't proclaim it abusive. You can proclaim anything abusive for any reason you want. I have said that since the south was paying a disproportionately small amount of the tariff then their claim of abuse does not make sense to me and the idea that it could be the primary reason for the southern rebellion is hard for me to swallow.
OK, that makes sense to me then. I don't believe that I have ever advocated the payment of the tarrif as the cause for secession; its very existence, in the view of the South, was an overstepping of federal authority - their primary complaint.
So those who wish to complain about the South using secession to 'overturn an election' only have to explain to me why the South should have believed that Lincoln, who ran on a platform of tariff power abuse, would not have attempted to carry it out.