Yes, if Lincoln wouldn't have re-inforced Ft. Sumter.  The fort was being turned over to the Confederacy before he did that.  The North could have withdrawn.  Pre-Civil War the Constitution was concidered a Social Compact.  The South had some legitament reasons for leaving.  The Missouri Comprimise was not a comprimise, making the South feel more threatened.  \n\nDuring the Presidential Campaign Lincoln was the only talking about Civil War.  If the South wanted Civil War it would have start a few years earlier when John Brown tried to take over that armory in Virgina
Was the Civil War unavoidable?