How The Jesuits Caused The US Civil War--Huh?

Yesterday I had a long nice talk with a new friend who told me along the way that the Jesuits, the Sociedad de Jesus in Spanish since the Jesuits got started in Spain, had a lot to do with the Civil War breaking out.  I hold the notion that it had more to do with 1) sectional disputes over slavery arising from different ideas about the concept that "all men are created equal" 2) sectional disputes over how much power states had to up and leave the Union 3) a reallllllllly big reaction in the South that its way of life was threatened when Lincoln was elected (which I consider grossly overblown--Lincoln opposed not slavery where it existed but any future expansion into new states), and 4) according to Mary Chestnut, Lincoln's not being wise enough to temporarily back down when South Carolina challenged Fort Sumter.  Chestnut, probably the best writer in North America, or anywhere else, who wrote more than a few serious columns about the war while it was going on, bills herself as a S Carolina "seceder" from the beginning and says:  We in South Carolina hurried out of the Union on our own.  If you had just left us alone out there a while, along with the states that scurried to follow, we might have found our way back in peacefully.  Instead Lincoln hurried to be tough and, per Chestnut who seems to make a potential plausible argument, helped stumble into the conflict he prayed to avoid.

I did some checking.  My friend did show me a post from an ex-priest, I think Chincuy, who wrote in a book that he spoke to Lincoln.  He recorded a long quote from the president that says the Jesuits played a big role in starting the war.  At a glance the quote didn't seem to fit with what I've read of Lincoln over several years.  Google didn't have any more things linking Lincoln and Jesuits that a quick search could locate.  He did blast the Know Nothing party because they were against blacks and Catholics and others, and one Catholic priest blogger says they started the rumor that Jesuits made So. Carolina leave.
I do know of two simple pieces of information that help me think about this. Lincoln once said to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, something like, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."  Stowe, need I say, was not a Jesuit.  I also know from several sources that the first or at least loudest voice for Southern secession was that of Robert Barnwell Rhett.  he was a candidate for president of the Confederacy.  As a rigid Protestant, he was about as far from a Catholic order as you could be.  I  wonder if my friend would know either of those two names.  I had to look up Rhett's first name myself. Reminds me of the scene in the movie "Jackie," where J. Kennedy asks the driver of the limosine carrying her dead husband, "Do you know the name James Garfield?"  "No, ma'am."  "He was also killed while holding the office of president."

I'm a rank amateur on the Civil War.  I've probably read books about it totaling 2500 pages, so I have a few half-informed notions.  I watched Ken Burns' series on this war twice, and don't recall any historian in that series, including Shelby Foote (who said 1000 intelligent things on the subject), or any person the series quoted who lived during the War, even mentioning the Jesuits.  I looked in the index of the longest book I've read on the subject last night, by Carl Sandberg, and there's no entry for Jesuit or even Society of Jesus.  In Mary Chestnut's Civil War there's no index entry for Jesuits, though Jews get four lines.  It's like somebody just made this up.

Has Dan Browne got it in for the Jesuits?  Anybody wanna help sort rumor mill from decent historical fact?