Don't need to; too much evidence to the contrary, and there is nothing you can do to change that, except suffer and try to pretend you had anything to do with freeing anybody. They were forming their own Constitution and making slavery part of their new nation; you probably aren't educated enough to see the difference between seceding to avoid being looted by northern manufacturers and bankers and moving on to make their own government platforms afterwards.
In fact it was only after news got back to New York that some of the new states were in Great Britain negotiating to ship their products directly from the South to Europe, therefore the northern cities facing losing their monopoly on shipping and finance and facing competition from much lower tariffs on foreign imports via the South that we see a sudden huge upsurge in support for Lincoln's illegal war.
Who were people in the expanding West and along the east Mississippi river networks going to buy their goods from, northern states with 200% tariiffs, or imports via New Orleans with 10%-20% tariffs?
