This is not true. Washington in the 1850s was controlled by pro slavery Democrats. They were trying to impose a slave based economy on the Midwest and the west.
The southern politicians created the false narrative of economic tyranny because the backward slave based southern economy was not as prosperous as the free north and Midwest which were rapidly industrializing and far surpassing the south.
“The North refused to accept the South’s secession and chose to wage war.”
Everyone in Washington, including Lincoln, wanted a compromise to avoid a costly war. In February 1860, before Lincoln was inaugurated, Jefferson Davis declared it was too late for compromise. The confederates were preparing an army to go to war. Shortly after Lincoln was inaugurated the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter beginning the Civil War.
The Democrat politicians in the south are entirely responsible for the Civil War. They caused the secession and the armed insurrection against the United States.
South Carolina Democrat Senator James Chestnut was one of the leaders of the secession. In the convention that voted for secession he bragged in a speech that he would “drink all the blood that would be spilled.”
This is typical of the stupid statements made by the men who started the Civil War. They were stupid and evil men. They started a war that resulted in about 600,000 men killed and caused enormous suffering throughout the south.
The people who ended up having to fight the Civil War developed hatred and contempt for these people who started the war. Among General Lee's many statements about them he said “They sit around eating peanuts while my army is starving.”
Jefferson Davis ordered his army to continue fighting a guerrilla war after Richmond fell. General Lee disobeyed a direct order from Jefferson Davis when he surrendered at Appomattox. General Joe Johnson also disobeyed a direct order when he surrendered.
That’s alright. I didn’t expect to change anyone’s mind.