Not unless you want to. The information you posted talked of the dangers of reinforcing the fort. Re-inforce means to strengthen or increase your positon, as in adding additional forces. Resupply means to restock, as in food and supplies. I think all can agree that had Lincoln announced his intention to reinforce the garrison then that would have been an escalation of the issue and could be seen as nothing but what it would have been, a provocative act. But Lincoln was faced with a garrison rapidly running out of food. He wanted nothing more than to maintain the status quo. Not to reinforce Sumter. Not to threaten the confederacy. Not to escalate the issue. But to keep the situation the way it was. Neither side gains, neither side loses. That's why he made his intention clear in his letter to Pickens, and also made it clear that he intended to land food and supplies only. No arms or ammunition. No reinforcements. And that is why there is no reason to believe that Lincoln knew his actions should automatically end in war. Regardless of your opinion.
To All: Rest easy... Lincoln has been defended. The North's hands are clean. Those crazy Rebels are all to blame.
Then why were troops embarked in the flotilla he dispatched to Sumter? And did he "maintain the status quo" by reinforcing Fort Pickens, thus stealing a march on the Anaconda Plan?
There you go again.
On March 29th a second and final cabinet discussion was held, in which there appeared a change of sentiment. Four of [Lincoln's] seven counsellors now voted for an attempt to relieve Anderson, and at the close of the meeting the President ordered the preparation of the expedition proposed by Captain [Gustavus] Fox. Three ships of war, with a transport and three swift steamtugs, a supply of open boats, provisions for six months, and two hundred recruits, were fitted out in New York with all possible secrecy, and sailed from that port, after unforeseen delays, on April 9th and 10th, under sealed orders to rendezvous before Charleston Harbor at daylight on the morning of the 11th......The mystery was finally solved on the evening of April 8th. A government messenger [this will have been Ward Lamon -- LG] arrived in Charleston, reported himself to Governor Pickens, and was immediately admitted by him to an interview at which General Beauregard was present. The messenger read to them an official communication, drafted by President Lincoln. It ran as follows:
"I am directed by the President of the United States to notify you to expect an attempt will be made to supply Fort Sumter with provisions only, and that if such attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in provisions, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or in case of an attack upon the fort."
The next morning after this notice was read to Governor Pickens and General Beauregard in Charleston, the main portion of the relieving expedition, under command of Captain G. V. Fox, sailed from New York Harbor. It consisted of the transport Baltic with the provisions and contingent reinforcements, the war-steamers Pawnee, Pocahontas, Harriet Lane, and the steam-tugs Uncle Ben, Yankee, and Freeborn. The fleet had orders to rendezvous ten miles east of Charleston Harbor on the morning of April 11th. The instructions to Captain Fox were short, but explicit: "You will take charge," wrote the Secretary of War, "of the transports in New York, having the troops and supplies on board, and endeavor in the first instance to deliver the subsistence. If you are opposed in this, you are directed to report the fact to the senior naval officer of the harbor, who will be instructed by the Secretary of the Navy to use his entire force to open a passage, when you will, if possible, effect an entrance, and place both troops and supplies in Fort Sumter."
[Emphasis added.]John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, pp. 53-60 passim.
Troops, gentlemen. Lincoln sent troops, after telling Governor Pickens he wasn't doing any such thing.
Footnote: Wonder where the recruits came from? Were they Wide Awakes? One is tempted to think they might have been, given what Lincoln was doing in Missouri at the same time.