[CodeToad]

“Lincoln had taken NO action against the South until that stupid incident. “

I guess when someone in your territory fortifies a fort they intend no actions. Got it. You’re stupid.

[wbarmy]

I guess when someone in your territory fortifies a fort they intend no actions. Got it. You’re stupid.

First, thank you for calling me stupid, I know where the level of conversation starts right from the beginning.

Since President Lincoln and the rest of the United States was still in operation, the fort, which was U.S. Government property, was still U.S. territory, just like an Embassy in a foreign government is still U.S. soil for all legal purposes. We fortify our embassies without intending to take action against the country we are in. We also have forts in other countries and we fortify them also, again without intending to take action.

Also, the legality of secession was still being debated, so calling it "their" territory was not so evident to the people living at that time. Especially those in the Confederate States who did not want to secede.