“a federal fort that did not belong to South Carolina “
Call it “preemptive war”, if you will.
“Blaming it all on South Carolina because the firing started there makes no more sense than blaming it all on Lincoln because he insisted on retaining ownership of federal property.”
Who owns Federal Property?
So war it was after all? And the South started it? Well you can't very well complain when things don't turn out quite like you had expected, can you?
Who owns Federal Property?
The government. Or if you want to get right down to it the people of the United States. That would be all the people, North as well as South. So what would give the people of South Carolina the right to just take it without compensating all the owners? Isn't their share of the property worth something?