Faun
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Our bases on foreign land are not on U.S. territory. Fort Sumter was, and is, on U.S. territory.No silly boy. That’s like saying our bases in Japan are USA land. Think man. Think.LOLOLOLWrong. At the time, all thought states were sovereign. When the southern states seceded, the federal personal left without being molested. Please name the facilities in the south where violence occurred."The federal government had relinquished all properties in the south without incident."So wait. AFTER South Carolina had taken over forts, ports, ships and other federal properties through the threat of force, he caused them to attack and bomb a US base by not surrendering it? Remember South Carolina had already overrun Moultrie, Pinckney, federal ships, the US arsenal in Charleston...
You know why South Carolina was able to bomb Fort Sumter? Because on December 30, 1860, John Cunningham of the South Carolina militia surrounded the US Federal Arsenal in Charleson and called for the "Immediate surrender of the US arsenal at this place and under your charge, and a delivery to me of the keys and contents of the arsenals, magazines, etc..."
The Chief of Ordinance declared "This arsenal has been taken by force of arms", and the troops after their surrender withdrew to Fort Sumter.
This all happened BEFORE Lincoln was President.
Then with those weapons they took by force of arms, Ft Sumter was bombed.
But yeah... lets revise history and say Lincoln was the cause.
The federal government had relinquished all properties in the south without incident. Then comes Fort Sumter. Clearly the action at the fort was designed by Lincoln to blame the South for starting the war and change public opinion in the North. It worked, but it was all a big lie.
Once the South learned that Lincoln sent a fleet of war ships, after telling the governor of SC that the garrison would soon be evacuated, the deception had been exposed. When Lincoln’s war ships showed up off Charleston, all knew it was an act of war. The SC shore batteries opened up and the fort surrendered the next day without one casualty taking place. Lincoln’s war fleet refused to help their brethren being besieged. They were sent by Lincoln merely as a provocation and it worked.
You might know the name Abner Doubleday, the so called inverter of baseball. He was second in command at Ft. Sumter. He stated, “every Union ship which entered the harbor that day would have been sunk.” So, all knew the fort was defenseless and incapable of being reinforced, as the SC shore batteries could easily destroy any ships that approached the harbor.
So, Lincoln’s false flag worked in turning public opinion in the North from letting the South go peacefully, to let’s kill those bastards.
Utter nonsense. They were forced to surrender those installations and fled to Sumter.
I don't care how ignorant you are, you cons can't rewrite history.
Even at Ft. Sumter, SC was more than willing to allow the Union to purchase provisions almost up to the day the bombardment began.
The seceding states offered to pay for all federal installations within their lands. So, your point is meaningless.
Stop venerating the mass murderer Dishonest Abe. He sucked just like nearly all our recent presidents.
Seceded states had no ownership of federal property. That property still belonged to the U.S.. South Carolina gave the territory to the U.S..
Like all the other nonsense you spew, this analogy utterly fails you.