Well Bubba, at least you're moving forward on learning what really happened vs what you read in high school. In the scope of one post you go from "I always read that the South started the war...fired the first shots yada yada" to verifying my statement that Lincoln provoked that Fort Sumter incident even when everyone around him thought it was foolish.
Your second quote, the one from Lincoln, is a famous one among the Walter Williams/Thomas DiLorenzo/myself crowd of people tying to set the record straight on this issue, because it's Lincoln referencing collecting the Morril Tariff, which superceded the famous Tariff of Abonimations as the most unfair, one-sided tax in the land. It was crucial to Lincoln's American System ideas (which he inherited from Henry Clay) that these "duties" be collected from the South. Incidentially, Fort Sumter also served as a tariff collection point.
That quote says it all: pay or be destroyed.
Lincoln went on to say, "The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all parts of the Union." Maybe he really meant: allow the mail to be delivered or be destroyed?
And you've gone from saying that Lincoln attacked the south to admitting that he merely provoked them into shooting at US troops by trying to send them supplies.
Incidentially, Fort Sumter also served as a tariff collection point.
No it didn't. It wasn't even finished when Anderson moved his men there. It was a military installation, and the military has never collected the tariff. The tariff collection point for Charleston was the Customs House on shore. Where do you get this stuff?
So, when did Lincoln promise that he wouldn't resupply Sumter? I notice you're not addressing that question.
Which would come as a complete surprise to the folks at the Customs office on East Bay Street. Tell me, how much sense does it make to put your tariff collection point in the middle of an army fort clear across the harbor from the wharfs where the tariff would be collected?