As he told a delegation of 30 people from Baltimore who urged peace after the attack on Fort Sumter Link to the full content of the Baltimore Sun article in post 328: 'And what is to become of the revenue? I shall have no government -- no resources.' "
rockrr: "Where's the 'Not this sh!t again graphic?' "
Right, a similar quote was claimed by CSA Col. Baldwin post-war from his meeting with Lincoln in April 1861.
But neither quote is verified and both are at odds with what we know of the time, most especially the fact that only a tiny fraction of Federal revenues came directly from Confederate ports.
Yes, there were indeed suggestions for collecting Federal tariffs from Confederate ports, but they had nothing to do with Fort Sumter -- the suggestions were to place US warships offshore to collect tariffs, out of sight of Confederate ports.
Forts Sumter & Pickens were a different issue entirely.
Yet, maniacally our Marxist trained Lost Causers insist: Fort Sumter was all just "money, money, money!", though neither Lincoln nor his cabinet at the time said any such thing.