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Well said. And let's bear in mind that the Confederacy, especially in the hands of Jeff Davis and Al (Mr Cornerstone) Stephens, was from conception a tyranny. The major difference between the North and the South was that the Confederacy was constituted 100% of slave states. Free states need not apply. Slavery was the cornerstone of the Confederacy. Dred Scot had determined that the black could never be a citizen, could never vote, had no standing in court and was inferior to whitey. Taney was owned by the Slave Powers and he gave them what they wanted. Armed with that terrible decision the South began to pump up secession talk. Just whomst was going to go to the Supreme Court and cry about "State Rights"? This had nothing to do with states rights. This had to do with half of the Union, up and leaving, because they'd been frightened by the carefully planted propaganda of how Abe the Gorilla was coming to get them. This was not an issue of a single states right to leave. This was a collusion of confederated states making off with half the country.

That damn war not only produced a whole lot of iron, but a whole lot of irony. The tyrannical President of the Confederacy, who broke as many, if not more rules than Lincoln, ended up never again being a full citizen of the United States. While the blacks who Taney had just proclaimed nothing better than property, became citizens! Delicious irony. The slaves, after those four years ended up in a better place than J.Davis.

And let's stop with this "SC militia attacking a pile of rocks" fantasy. J.Davis himself, as President of the Confederacy, issued the order to tell Anderson he had so many hours to evacuate the fort. And after that time went by, the first round of shelling began. For three hours, the best artillery of the South (which had been placing artillery pieces in strategic location for weeks) began three hours of non-stop shelling, sending 3,000lbs of iron, a piece at a time at the incredibly fortified Sumter. That decision by the idiot J.Davis was a declaration of War against the United States.