It was called the correct term “war of Northern Aggression”. The South rightfully wanted to secede. If your daughter or son wanted to leave the house and venture out, why stop them?
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union described:
https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/articles-of-confederation
“ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS BAY, RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA”
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/SMAN-107/pdf/SMAN-107-pg935.pdf
The United States was a “perpetual union” as far as South Carolina was concerned.
Extending the metaphor, if your daughter or son shot at you on their way out of the house, should they be surprised if you shot back? What if they weren't "venturing out" but moving into the guest house out back, again while shooting at you from the guest house? Is it your fault for "starting the war" by shooting back?
While Lincoln was still President-elect and touring through supposedly "neutral" but slave-supporting Delaware trying to calm the storm the Dims were brewing, the people of Delaware tried to kill Lincoln multiple times. Keep in mind that the state of Delaware surrounds DC on 3/4ths of the perimeter with confederate Virginia on the rest of the perimeter. That doesn't sound like "venturing" out to me.
It was still-in-office Dim president Buchanan who ordered federal troops to not leave federal forts that were in (or on the coast of) confederate land (most notably Fort Sumter at Charleston). It was Dim leaders of the new confederacy who ordered the attack on supply ships to Fort Sumter (Dim leaders of the confederacy sieging a fort that still had a Dim commander-in-chief). It was Dim President Jefferson Davis of the CSA who ordered an attack directly on Fort Sumter (ironically Dim Buchanan was still Prez of the USA at the time of the order, but by the time the attack was implemented Lincoln was Prez).
But, hey, call it "northern aggression" if it makes you feel better. I love my home state of Alabama, but the south started the civil war.
In this case, the South was producing most of the money funding the Federal government, and much of the money fueling Northern shipping, banking, warehousing, insurance and other interests.
Allowing the South to leave would have taken 200 million dollars per year out of the hands of the "elite" running Washington DC.
But yes, the South should have been allowed to leave without resistance.
“Northern aggression”???
Who fired the first shot?
I believe that is the confederate states...
Against Fort Sumpter...
Try again..
You lose
Victors dictate history and boy haven’t they ever!
Revisionism on full display. Was slavery an issue of contention? Certainly. Was it the cause for the Civil war? nope!
In fact, the overwhelming majority of those brave and honorable men fighting for the cause of the South were too damn poor to own slaves. So, what was it they were fighting to preserve?
Because of revisionism, most do not realize the so called
great emancipator Lincoln” before the war and the great Northern general Grant after the war both sought to recolonizing the negro back to Afrika, Caribbean and Puerto Rico. They believed the negro would likely not assimilate into American society.
Furthermore, Lincoln himself wrote to newspaper editor Horace Greeley his intentions regarding the war of Northern aggression. Preserve the Union at all costs. Freed slaves or NOT.
Most do not realize that at one point, there were more white slaves than black.
Some of the more infamous brutal slave owners were free blacks.
Because of warped history and the movie Roots, folks have this notion that the white slave traders were in Afrika hunting down blacks and forcing them onto slave ships. This was an exaggeration.
Because of the many diseases within the interior, most slave traders relied on the black conquerors of rival tribes to bring their captives to the shoreline. It was the black man who first sold the black man into slavery.
All of these lil factoids are held in the national archives.