Hilarious thread. Lincoln was a moderate. Very much a moderate. Just look at Reconstruction, and the way it ended. All 13 colonies signed onto the Constitution, so the only way to have a divorce legally would have been by Amendment, Constitutional Convention, Supreme Court decision, etc.. But this wouldn't have benefitted the powers that be on either side. The South was very much interested in expansion of Southern slavery westward and southward(Cuba.) The war was about protecting the ruling classes of both sides.
