After reading your expositions here, I'd pause before casting aspersions if I were you. Maybe you were a little uptight when you first read my comment. Do you believe that the state of South Carolina wished to engage in armed conflict upon adoption of its cessation declaration? Why the hell would they have wanted that? But I guess for you scholars, some of the simple points are tough to grasp. Next you'll tell me Ohio was in danger of being occupied by Tennessee....
Did they "want to"? The short answer is Yes! If another Buchanan had been elected in 1860, they would have been glad not to engage in armed conflict at that point. But in a year or so after they consolidated power, they would have been marching on US territory in the West --- Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico --- maybe even California. They would have also at some point invaded Cuba and Mexico. They tried that even before the war.
They would have gone to war one way or another because expansion of slavery was their objective. Look at the economics of it. Slaves were a valuable asset --- as long as the demand for slaves remained high. Slave population also doubled every 25 years --- twice the rate of the southern white population. South Carolina was nearly 50% slave in 1860. What were they going to do with all those 'excess slaves". If they did nothing, and allowed Lincoln to isolate slavery in the south, the value of their assets would collapse as supply outstripped demand. At the same time they would find themselves hopelessly outnumbered by slaves while visions of Santo Domingo danced in their dreams. Since they had for the last 30 years from the time of Calhoon, propagandized the non-slaveholding population that slavery is ordained by God and that free blacks were a menace to white men, they couldn’t just cut the excess loose without the poor whites going ballistic on them. The only 'rational' alternative was to open new markets for the “excess inventory”. Why else do you think some wealthy South Carolina planter without a care in the world gave a damn what happened in Kansas.
Follow the money.