[PatrioticAmerican]

What does Kansas have to do with South Carolina or Florida? While the war spilled over, that doesn't mean that the North needed to wage war against the south in order to keep the union together. The North could have, and should have, kept to themselves and let the South create their own nation, as they did.

[Non-Sequitur]

The Lincoln Administration didn't take a single hostile action towards the south until they fired on Sumter. Jefferson Davis is the man you should be blaming it on, not Abraham Lincoln.

[r9etb]

What does Kansas have to do with South Carolina or Florida?

I used the Kansas war (between pro- and anti-slavery forces) to support my claim that a war between North and South was probably inevitable, regardless of whether the secession were allowed to proceed.

Indeed, the acceptance of secession would undoubtedly have made a western war much more likely, as there would be no means for a federal government to mediate violent disagreements between states.