[BroJoeK]

HMS Surprise: “And, why do conservatives lose their ability to think logically when it comes to the The Civil War?”

Pelham: "It’s only the Lincoln Cult that has that difficulty."

Sorry, but our pro-Confederates are utterly blinded by their natural love of ancestors to the real historical facts.
The truth is that Deep-South slave-holders first declared secession, then started Civil War to protect their "peculiar institution" of slavery.
There is nothing -- zero, zip, nada -- "conservative" or "logical" about that.

President Lincoln refused to surrender to Confederate military aggression against the United States and its Constitution.
That is the very definition of "conservatism", FRiends.

[Pelham]

“President Lincoln refused to surrender to Confederate military aggression against the United States and its Constitution.”

That must have been the famous Confederate invasion of the North back in July 1861.

If not for the valiant defensive forces raised by Lincoln the United States above the Mason Dixon line would surely have been conquered by the huge Confederate army poised for its conquest. You, BroJoeK, have the historical situation of the time exactly right.