Vice President of the Confederacy Praises Lincoln

See here.

I might go into this further at a later date but this goes in a direction of a theory of mine.

Why was Lincoln such a threat to the south ? It really does not make any sense if you look at his postions.

No what is in the background here is a threat of the Republican party itself gaining influence in the South and thus a threat to the SOuthern Establishments power base.