[DiogenesLamp]

More important, at Fort Sumter there were no economic issues -- none, zero -- claimed by either Northerners or Southerners at the time.

Well this is incorrect. Somewhere in the list of Northern newspapers commenting about this era there is one that demands the tariff be collected or to turn the guns of all the forts on them.

I'm sure you are familiar with that particular quote and I don't feel like looking it up again.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Somewhere in the list of Northern newspapers commenting about this era there is one that demands the tariff be collected or to turn the guns of all the forts on them."

There may have been as much nonsense published in Northern papers as Southern, but I've seen nothing suggesting Lincoln must attack Charleston to collect its tariffs.
The fact is that total tariffs from Charleston were under $300,000 in 1859 or six-tenths of one percent of total US tariff revenues.

So, events at Charleston had nothing to do with either slavery or economics, but strictly with who owned and could resupply Fort Sumter.
Throughout human history, men have often gone to war over less.