To keep him from abolishing slavery in the south.
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Lincoln was president for us andjeferson Davis for the confederate states
He was willing to fight for it! Since the slave states also known as the Confederate States that time wanted to be it's own country, Lincoln said it was a bad example for the future. If Lincoln had let the Confederate States be at its own, then in the near future other states would leave. Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States. This was how to Civil War started.
The former Confederate States had never actually left the Union.
Lincoln was the Union President. Jefferson Davis was Confederacy.
He refused to let the South cecede from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.