[DiogenesLamp]

Your complaint seems to be that Lincoln didn't immediately surrender when Davis started the war. Why would you expect him to?

When your premise is flawed, there is no reasonable way to answer it. Davis did not start the war. Abraham Lincoln deliberately started the war.

But had Lincoln done nothing, there would have been no war. All he had to do was sit on his hands and leave those other people alone, but he couldn't even do that. He had to meddle, just as Liberals always have to meddle with other people.

[DoodleDawg]

Davis did not start the war. Abraham Lincoln deliberately started the war.

So you keep saying. Your opinion is duly noted but I'll go with history.

All he had to do was sit on his hands and leave those other people alone, but he couldn't even do that.

And let them be starved into surrender, thus capitulating to Davis as central_va wanted him to.

[Bull Snipe]

“But had Lincoln done nothing, there would have been no war”

Over Sumter, yes. What about Fort Pickens at Pensacola.
It was resupplied, fully manned and quite capable of a vigorous defense. Would Davis have allow it to sit there under U.S. ownership?
My opinion is, at some point, Davis would have moved against Pickens. What do you think?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Jeff Davis ordered the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. So yeah, he got the party started.