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To: GOPcapitalist
So a reckless head-first charge into a bloody war is standing up for "what is right" now? Curious.

The war was initiated by the Davis regime. Had Lincoln landed supplies at Sumter then what? How would that have constituted a threat to the confederacy? Was Charleston blocked? No. Were the people in danger of being bombarded? No. Was the Davis regime threatened in any way whatsoever? No. There was no reason at all for Davis to open fire at Sumter except to begin the war that he wanted all along, the war he needed to induce the other slave holding states into the confederate fold.

270 posted on 11/10/2003 10:13:06 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
The war was initiated by the Davis regime.

Not so. Lincoln sent the fleet a week before Davis fired.

Had Lincoln landed supplies at Sumter then what? How would that have constituted a threat to the confederacy?

Then the fort would have had greater ability to be used against Charleston. Your reasoning in this is quite amusing, BTW. Translate it into modern leftist context and you should see why: "Had Saddam Hussein simply bought a bunch of uranium then what? How would that have constituted a threat to the United States?"

Was Charleston blocked? No.

It could have been on a single command. The guns of Sumter controlled access to Charleston harbor.

Were the people in danger of being bombarded? No.

They could have been. A single command from Lincoln could have ordered Sumter's guns to fire on any civilian attempting to enter or exit.

279 posted on 11/10/2003 12:26:40 PM PST by GOPcapitalist
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