 lincoln had an alternative plan for peace and that is we will preserve the constitution leave it where it is but not let it grow i think in eighteen fifty eight he thought that that and i think he thought that was right but he had to do it that way because if you don't proceed lawfully that you're destroying the whole structure of law so i think i think he thought he had to do that but in addition i think he thought that would work in other words that that could be accepted