It just won't penetrate your thick skull, will it? First, it was 618,222 combat deaths, not 800,000. Second, the South attacked the North and seized federal property. Lincoln was constitutionally obligated to see that the laws were "faithfully executed". Third, Lincoln did not engage in a war to free the slaves. He wanted slavery to be unmolested in the south, where it was then legal and repeatedly said do. The South resorted to bullets when they did not win at the ballot box in a free and fair election and did so in an effort to extend slavery and to transmute it from a necessary evil into a positive good, which was wholly contrary to the intent of the Founders. Lincoln did what he was Constitutionally required to do and acted in a manner entirely consistent with the intent of the Founders, the Constitution and the Declaration, all of which you despise. There was no reason for him to resign as administrator of his father's estate any more than there was a reason for Jefferson or Washington to not be president. Your desperation to find the goods on Lincoln is pretty funny actually.
Recent scholarship says 800,000.
Laws faithfully executed, heh? What about habeas corpus? lol
