[4CJ]

And my position is that the South wanted to walk away from obligations to debt and treaties, take whatever federal property they wanted without compensation of any kind, and leave the remaining states to shoulder the responsibility. How fair is that?

It would not be fair if that were the truth, but here you're lying. South Carolina and the CSA both attempted to remunerate the federal government for any debts, and to negotiate all outstanding issues.

[Non-Sequitur]

It would not be fair if that were the truth, but here you're lying. South Carolina and the CSA both attempted to remunerate the federal government for any debts, and to negotiate all outstanding issues.

There may be a liar in the group but it isn't me. Contrary to your opinion on what they might have done eventually, some day, perhaps, there was no offer of settlement made prior to repudiating the debt. No compensation made prior to seizing the property. Just vague suggestions that the South might talk about it, but only after Lincoln first recognized the legality of their acts of secession and confederate sovereignty.