[Non-Sequitur]

Some look back on incidences like this that led to the war.

Then why didn't they secede in 1859?

[wolfcreek]

Don’t ask such foolish questions. You know it wasn’t a spur of the moment event.

[GOP_Raider]

Then why didn't they secede in 1859?

Or what would have happened if John C. Fremont had won the presidency in 1856 instead of James Buchanan? Would much of anything have been different or would his administration, presumably setting as policy the expansion of slavery, have hastened the inevitable southern secession and Civil War?