That is just plain silly.
That is a fact.
If the Confederacy had wanted a peaceful secession, they could have had one. They preferred war.
That is just plain silly.
If they had simply held their positions, and waited things out, the secession would very likely have been accepted. If it had been ratified by Congress, there'd have been nothing much Lincoln could have done.
But the South didn't wait. They attacked Fort Sumter, knowing it would trigger a war, because they knew that only war would convince Virgina and North Carolina to secede.
The South had a choice between a peaceful secession and a Confederacy of seven states, or war and a Confederacy of eleven states. They chose the latter.
In the words of William Tecumseh Sherman, "War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want."