Lincoln offered to Trade Virginia for Ft. Sumter. If Virginia would give him assurances they would remain in the Union, he would order the evacuation of Sumter. Those assurances came too late for him to recall the War Fleet he had already sent to attack the confederates surrounding Sumter.
It was a nonstarter to begin with and the Democrat parties’ desire for a racist slave empire cost the country almost 700,000 deaths and in dollars and cents, the U.S. government estimated in Jan. 1863 that the war was costing $2.5 million daily.
I'm confused. Didn't the South have slavery while they were in the Union? Didn't Lincoln say he would support the Corwin Amendment that would make slavery virtually permanent in the Union?
So how much would it have cost if the South's existing "slave empire" had remained part of the Union?
So much for the large percentage of federal taxes collected in the South. The entire Federal Budget in 1860 was only $170 million. That would have funded less than three months of expenses in the Civil War.
So it was rather insane to launch a horribly expensive war just to keep people under your control? So why did Lincoln do it? Probably because they didn't think it would be so bad when it began.
There was simply no way that the industrial North would allow the Southern half of a continental country just walk away.
And why was that? What was it to them if other people didn't want the "benefits" of being part of their Government?
They lost. It was in all the papers. Even the fake news ones.
Get over it!
Fact is the South attacked federal installations all across the South. Arsenals and depots were seized. Sumpter was the most publicized and no president would have tolerated an insurrection threatening the Union.
The idiot Slavers brought on their destruction. It was sheer insanity.