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South Carolina seceded in November 1860. No one lifted a finger against them until they open fire. They did steal a lot of federal property, and millions of assets from the North, but again, no troops were called out against them until they started the war. The Konfederat troops in Charleston were informed by Sumter that the Fort would be abandoned the next day, but the Davis administration ordered the attack to commence before the fort could be abandoned as he feared that the Confederacy would fall apart without a war due to the efforts of the states, particularly Virginia, to circumvent the possibility of a war.

The south did belatedly send representative to Washington to negotiate for the hundreds of millions of Federal and private property stolen, but that was a joke because the southern states had from the very beginning never been able to pay their share of the costs of the nation, and had consistantly bled off the Federal treasury about 10 times what they had put into it. There was no way the south could handle it's debts, and Lincoln had no right to sign off on such vast sums of other people's money.