So that's a good point but - "was not a clear-cut case of everyone in a region wanting to live in their own country" Neither was the American revolution in the

So that's a good point but - "was not a clear-cut case of everyone in a region wanting to live in their own country" Neither was the American revolution in the first place. Where was the referendum? What would have been the results? Would the secessionists even have won? Lincoln maybe didn't live in a time where he had a lot of historical examples to follow, fair enough, but the argument that 'some didn't want to separate' doesn't quite cut it fully because that's pretty much a pervasive context.