Are you saying the south fired on Fort Sumter because of John Brown, or that John Brown represented the US government?
Liberals have nothing on you lost-causers when it comes to revisionism. lol
I'm sure it sounds like revisionism to someone who thinks that the version of history he learned in elementary school is gospel.
Vitriolic attacks on the South as the hated Slave Power were already going strong in the North by 1800 election of Thomas Jefferson.
John Adam's Secretary of State Timothy Pickering was a prime mover in all of it and John Quincy Adams did his share as well. Pickering was part of the powerful Essex Junto of Massachusetts that had formed in the 1770s. Pickering and his band of Federalists hated the South enough that they tried to get New England to secede from Jefferson's United States.
That was just the beginning of the decades long campaign against the South that culminated in the Civil War. Historian Thomas Fleming examines this forgotten part of American history in his recent book A Disease in the Public Mind. Probably not a book for those who like to believe that the Civil War began with Ft Sumter so you may want to skip it.