Nice snapshot reply DL
I’m bookmarking....socalpubbie needs to mask up
I would suggest reading James Buchanan’s 1859 State of the Union message. This came after John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry which Brown hoped would end up starting a murderous slave revolt along the lines of Haiti. The seven wealthy New Englanders who financed Brown’s terrorism were hoping for it too.
In this SOTU letter Buchanan comments on the “incurable disease in the public mind”, predicting that the North was on the verge of launching an open war to abolish slavery in the South.
So a year or two prior to Fort Sumter the Northern drive towards civil war is already so apparent it makes it into a presidential message.
Keep this in mind the next time you see the claim that the North had nothing to do with starting the war. They were just innocently minding their own business and blithely loving peace and stuff, when war was started out of the blue by Southerners firing on Fort Sumter, inflicting the death of one US Army horse.