You know that is not what we were debating on Tuesday. Please try to stay on topic. Will ya?
Actually I think I am. I went and looked back at Tuesday at what you called your 'main point': The South was looking for a fight, and Lincoln only too gladly gave them what they were looking for.
By 'only too gladly' I take you to mean Lincoln's actions were deliberate and their intent was to provoke a fight. And if I'm right in that then I can't seem to find where I have back tracked on my position which I began laying out in post 1051 where I said that I did not believe that Lincoln set out to start a war when he launched his resupply mission to Sumter. He may have feared the result but unlike you I did not believe that war was his purpose. In post 1060 I laid out what I believed were indications that he didn't set out for war. Your post 1064 contradicted me and claimed Lincoln knew without a doubt his actions would result in war and deliberately went ahead anyway. So that brings us up to today. Without recapping the sniping going back and forth between us, I still can't find where I retracted anything I said earlier and agree with you that Lincoln knew without a doubt his actions would lead to war. And you've not tried to show anything to support your claim that he knew without a doubt that supplying Sumter would. And now here we are.