The Southern states did not levy war against them (the states). It was Lincoln who attacked them by sending a heavily armed flotilla to invade their territorial waters - not the other way around.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
Southern states did not levy war against them (the states)
The first cannon ball to bounce of the masonry of Fort Sumter constituted Levying war against the United States.
Davis would have fired on Sumter if Lincoln had sent a troop of girl scouts in open canoes filled with food to resupply Sumter. He was not going to allow the fort to be resupplied under any circumstance.
So you keep saying. History says otherwise.
What’s so hard to understand about that?
The inaccuracy of your claim to begin with.