Yes, and there was no firing at Ft. Sumter until Lincoln sent the ships to Charleston and Pensacola.
Maybe you will respond to repetition of the truth.
“5/1860 Strictly on a sectional vote, the US House of Representatives passed their version of the Morrill Tariff. The bill passed the House with the representatives of the eleven confederate states voting 39-1 against it.”
Excerpts from Republican Party Platform of 1860, resolution 12.
“That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of the
imposts...”
So, evidence that the Morrill Tariff had passed the house, was in the Republican platform and supported by President elect Lincoln, all before December 20, 1860.
“It was passed only because of the absence of their Senators, and the need seen for more income to put down the rebellion.”
Wrong again!
"The ad valorem features of the law of 1857 were to a large extent substituted by specific duties, and not only was the questio of revenue fully considered, but it was intended to give a considerable, if not ample protection to american labor and industry. There was no thought, whatever, of providing for war in the Morrill Tariff. There was no thought of doing anything except to correct the existing Tariff...”
The Republican Party: A History of its Fifty years’s Existence and a Record of its Measures and Leaders by Francis Curtis
Page 333
And it was not passed until the rebellion had begun...The idea that the southern states rebelled, so a law they disliked could be passed is unusually idiotic, even for you.