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It meant that the South had successfully asserted its sovereignty over the island, on the grounds that it was in South Carolina and therefore part of the Confederacy.

Meanwhile, the South could claim that it did not want a war, unless Lincoln chose to declare one. But Lincoln could not do this without recognising the Confederacy as a sovereign nation. So he merely called for volunteer-troops to put down a rebellion of certain states.

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