On the Fact that Even Though No Sane, Fair-Minded, and Knowledgeable Individual Would Ever Try to Claim that Any of the Original 13 Colonies Would Have Ratified the Constitution Had They Known that it Was an Irrevocable Loss of Sovereignty, this Is Exactly What Lincoln, Seward, and Numerous Other Northern Republicans Were Trying to Assert In 1861 (Just Prior to Their War of Aggression Against the South)

Couple this with that fact that Lincoln never once stated that his actions were meant to free the slaves and, yes, this whole comic-book treatment of the Civil War (AKA, the War for Southern Independence) by court historians, the media, politicians, academics, etc. seems even more untenable (which, yes, is saying loads)