What are you saying, that US forces WEREN'T shelled at fort Sumter, only the fort?
Did you forget your exaggerations (which were of course exaggerations worthy of a declaration of war)
Wait, are you declaring war on me now?
As for Hartford, keep reading...
I've read a lot about Hartford, and what I have yet to see is anything coming out of the convention that would constitute a legal attempt at secession. Talking about a flag and sending a report to the president requesting certain amendments is not the same as announcing yourself no be no longer part of the United States. Apparently that distinction escapes you, though.
But you got me again with the general "final report" issued years after the war ended that didn't have the word secession in it.
Seriously, you're embarrassing yourself here. The "Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention" was published the day after the convention closed, on January 5, 1815.
Oh, and any progress on finding that New York Times article?