Executive enforces the law, under the direction and command of POTUS. Rebels, insurrectionists and traitors violated the law, the Constitution. Lincoln fulfilled his constitutional duty.
The yankees violated the Constitution? Prey tell, how so? Did they send slave catchers into other states to violate state laws and kidnap any black person they wanted, to then illegally traffic them into slavery? Did they start illegal wars to expand slave territory? Did they send thousands of slavers and their slaves into soon to be states in order to force a slavery legalizing state constitution? Did they prohibit Republican presidential Electors from being on the ballot in the 1860 election? Did they threaten Republican supporters and keep them from voting? Did they throw a temper tantrum when they lost the 1860 election? Did they illegally attack and seize federal property including post offices, arsenals and forts? Did they depose duly elected state legislatures/assemblies and officials? Did they illegally enter treaties with other states? Did they illegally coin their own currency? Did they engage in acts of war against the lawful federal government? Did they refuse to heed the President's constitutional command to send their militias to enforce the Constitution and suppress an unlawful rebellion? Did they engage in widespread mass violence via acts of war against lawful military forces trying to enforce the Constitution?
Oh, that's right... the slave power rebels did all of these things... most of which BEFORE Lincoln was even inaugurated.
You need to read more. The yankees came to the South, killing women and children, and burning down houses and crops. Most troops were defending against these monsters.
Yankee businessmen were pissed because the South was selling goods directly to Europe without using yankee firms or yankee ships. Lincoln needed a pretext that he could sell to ignorant yankee civilians. He, or his people, noticed that not long before that the last of the northern states had done away with slavery (technically, but not in reality). So he told people that the "evil South" had slaves and were wrong.
In actuality, most Southerners never owned slaves. The Constitution limits the powers of the federal government to a very few things. Everything else, absolutely everything else, is to be left to the states and individual people. Slavery was one of those things that was the right of the individual states to decide on. Individual northern states had decided to stop slavery. Individual Southern states would also have stopped slavery by the 1880s because of the economics.
There was no Constitutional purpose in invading the South, and killing innocents and burning down homes and crops to starve others.
Eating blackeyed peas on New Years in the South is in remembrance of the atrocities of the north. The yankees were too stupid to know that blackeyed peas were food for people, not animals, and thus failed to burn down the pea fields. That allowed a lot of Southerners to make it.
General Sherman was fully intending to commit genocide by killing all Southerners, men, women, and children. He should have been hung.
Lincoln had zero constitutional authority to punish anyone.
Executive enforces the law, under the direction and command of POTUS. Rebels, insurrectionists and traitors violated the law, the Constitution. Lincoln fulfilled his constitutional duty.
What's your favorite crayon flavor?
The yankees were the traitors who violated the Constitution. You must be an improperly educated damn yankee. Everything about your post is incorrect.
French fry, though you're probably so underinformed that you won't know what I'm talking about.
The yankees violated the Constitution? Prey tell, how so? Did they send slave catchers into other states to violate state laws and kidnap any black person they wanted, to then illegally traffic them into slavery? Did they start illegal wars to expand slave territory? Did they send thousands of slavers and their slaves into soon to be states in order to force a slavery legalizing state constitution? Did they prohibit Republican presidential Electors from being on the ballot in the 1860 election? Did they threaten Republican supporters and keep them from voting? Did they throw a temper tantrum when they lost the 1860 election? Did they illegally attack and seize federal property including post offices, arsenals and forts? Did they depose duly elected state legislatures/assemblies and officials? Did they illegally enter treaties with other states? Did they illegally coin their own currency? Did they engage in acts of war against the lawful federal government? Did they refuse to heed the President's constitutional command to send their militias to enforce the Constitution and suppress an unlawful rebellion? Did they engage in widespread mass violence via acts of war against lawful military forces trying to enforce the Constitution?
Oh, that's right... the slave power rebels did all of these things... most of which BEFORE Lincoln was even inaugurated.
Have you run out of crayons to eat?
You need to read more. The yankees came to the South, killing women and children, and burning down houses and crops. Most troops were defending against these monsters.
Yankee businessmen were pissed because the South was selling goods directly to Europe without using yankee firms or yankee ships. Lincoln needed a pretext that he could sell to ignorant yankee civilians. He, or his people, noticed that not long before that the last of the northern states had done away with slavery (technically, but not in reality). So he told people that the "evil South" had slaves and were wrong.
In actuality, most Southerners never owned slaves. The Constitution limits the powers of the federal government to a very few things. Everything else, absolutely everything else, is to be left to the states and individual people. Slavery was one of those things that was the right of the individual states to decide on. Individual northern states had decided to stop slavery. Individual Southern states would also have stopped slavery by the 1880s because of the economics.
There was no Constitutional purpose in invading the South, and killing innocents and burning down homes and crops to starve others.
Eating blackeyed peas on New Years in the South is in remembrance of the atrocities of the north. The yankees were too stupid to know that blackeyed peas were food for people, not animals, and thus failed to burn down the pea fields. That allowed a lot of Southerners to make it.
General Sherman was fully intending to commit genocide by killing all Southerners, men, women, and children. He should have been hung.