[Sherman Logan]

Five weeks later, on April 12, Fort Sumter, a tariff collection point in Charleston Harbor

Fort Sumter was under-construction fort intended to defend Charleston Harbor against seaborne attack. Not one dollar of taxes was ever collected there.

[NTHockey]

>>Fort Sumter was under-construction fort intended to defend Charleston Harbor against seaborne attack.<<

Another government shovel ready job. Construction began in 1829, but was not completed at the beginning of the war.

[dontreadthis]

well, you seem to have pretty much debunked his theory with your apparent confident knowledge of history.
the article appealed to me by way of an unstated comparison of Lincoln to King George, and an American Revolution/civil war that grew out of taxation.