Lack of any hostile actions on Lincoln's part, and his declared promise that there would be no war unless the South initiated one. Which they did.
Now let's get back to Lincoln. Do you mean to suggest for as long as a nanosecond, that Lincoln would not have gone to war with the Confederacy, if Davis had foreborne at Fort Sumter?
Yes. Why should he? He had sworn that he would retain posession of the property of the U.S. So long as he did then he felt that he could wait out the southern rebellion and it would fall apart, sooner rather than later. In that he may have underestimated his opponent, but we'll never know.
Just tell me -- I want to hear you say it, like Landslide Lyndon said -- that Lincoln was not totally committed to war, and would not have gone to war with the Confederacy, if only Davis had left Sumter alone.
I just did.
had lincoln, the TYRANT & GREAT spiller of INNOCENTS blood, and his coven of thugs had a BRAIN, he/they would have let the new southron nation go in peace AND traded with her. the CSA would have needed the north as a trading partner for many decades.
alas, lincoln,the scheming shyster & cheap politician, wasn't smart enough to do that, so a MILLION citizens lost their lives NEEDLESSLY.
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