Except that Lincoln was in office, mostly nobody wanted to be in the Civil War. Lincoln was in office, therefore everyone was for the Civil War, or else.
Herein arises the greatest U. S. Military MisCalculation ever made: That actually the South had to resort to military conscription for recruits. The Civil War was not all that popular, in either region. There was time to have done other things.
The Draft in the Civil War
The Second greatest American Military Miscalculation ever made, follows from the first. The Republican Party is only rarely even able to calculate the price, apparently, even of its pantyhose. $2,000.00 in West Hollywood is a lot of money! A National political message, is not a GOP virtue. Local stuff matters, even if the office is national, statewide, or county-wide. Lincoln's Innaugural One is not even itself, an attack on Southern Property rights at all.
In the South, eventually even someone age 70 could be drafted. In the North, $300.00, or a replacement, bought an exemption. Coincidentally, the North also adopted the draft, right after Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation: Which didn't even apply to the North(?). The Republicans could actually keep their. . . .well. . . .property! Like The South could guess going in: Equal Protection Under Laws was not at all what the Yankee Abolitionists had in mind.
So the atrocity that Governor McDonnel should have been addressing was in fact the entire Lincoln Administration! Instead, he mainly reiterated that many already know about Amendment XIII, which permits involuntary serviture in the matter of convicted felons. Amendment XIV would have to be an add-on!
What Republican racism(?)!?
Which just goes to show: There's never a Roland Martin around, except when one isn't even needed!
Technically, he is free, now!
Lincoln would go on, then, to kill off upwards of 700,000 and more White People, and maim and disable most of all the rest. The South had very clear reasons to secede from the civilization which would not even allow it equal protection under its laws! The Abolitionists were seen to be able to successfully bring that about.
Of the same kind of Miscalculating Mindset, then even later on, the "New Abolitionists," opposed to Moslems who are not Conservative Christians, would invent "Weapons of Mass Destruction," wherein none were ever to be found, and would send in the troops--and to stay. Osama bin laden could have captured, and put on Moslem Trial: Except that the Abolitionist-minded, Party of Abraham Lincoln was in control!
"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(Or as it is said, "Would a rose by any other name: Smell even half so sweet as this?!)