On this day in 1861 Abraham Lincoln maneuvered the Confederate States into firing on Fort Sumter so that he would have an excuse to invade the South.
Confederate peace commissioners had already been to Washington to negotiate the transfer of forts and magazines on their territory peacefully. Lincoln dallied, delayed, mumbled out of both sides of his mouth, but refused to come to terms.
After promising he would not re-supply Sumter, he sent a naval expedition to do so.
Let’s see: he sends a foreign navy to invade a sovereign nation’s soil, after he promised not to & his own cabinet opposed the move. Clever move, though, since the misunderstood APPEARANCE of the CSA firing “first” shots at Sumter would give him an excuse to invade the South.
— Franklin Sanders www.the-moneychanger.com
