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Just like the Lincolnophiles turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the truth about their sainted(?)leader. It was the abolitionist and the Yankee industrial power that got Lincoln into the presidency and they KNEW that it would provoke the Southern States into a war. Lincoln being the astute politician (meaning liar) that he was manipulated the Fort Sumter seige into war.

Not to mention that his concept of "The Union" having been perpetual was wrong and his calling up of 75,000 troops was unconstitutional. Lincoln, Stanton, Seward, Stevens - all political tools of the Northern industrialists.

Well, they did draw Davis into firing the first shot. Of course he could have turned down that honor. Winfield Scott knew Davis well enough to know they he would not. Mr. Davis was a too-proud man.

It was the abolitionist and the Yankee industrial power that got Lincoln into the presidency and they KNEW that it would provoke the Southern States into a war.

It was the Slaveocracy that intentionally split the Democrat party in 1860 into sections that assured any Republican on the ballot would be elected President knowing full well that was the only way they could even get the Deep South to agree to secession.

The had pushed for secession for 10 full years, even before anyone outside if Springfield IL. knew who Lincoln was.

And to get the Upper South to go along with secession, they had to start a shooting war. Without Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, the Slave Power of the Cotton States was a joke. They needed the war to form a nation and they saw Lincoln as a week, country bumkin who would not be able to mobilize a response.

It is not entirely different than people saw Reagan in 1980, or Bush pre 9-11.

They figured wrong.