He’s certainly the only president to raise an army to use against Americans.
Any president would have resisted the seizure of federal forts, arsenals, arms and property of all sorts. This is Sedition at the minimum. Any president who allowed that would rightly impeached and removed from office.
The Constitution declares the federal government has power to suppress insurrection. So there is no argument as to legality of Lincoln’s actions.
Why are you espousing a nut-ball critique?
There was never anything righteous about the Southern cause, NOTHING good. It supported Evil until the Slavers destroyed the region.
Don’t blame Lincoln, blame the Slaver Fire-eaters.
Much of the damage done in Reconstruction was due to Lincoln’s killing. One leader said that “the South has lost its best friend.”
Read Shelby Footes’ 3000 page history of the Civil War, it is elegantly written and filled with facts and the forces pushing Lincoln and Davis and their actions.