SOOooooo, if the southern authorities had not been humanitarian and provided those supplies during the peace negociations and before the April relief expedition was organized, then there probably would not have been a need for the southern authority to fire on Fort Sumter, would there? Anderson would have had to abandon Fort Sumter as he said he would have to by April 15th, if new supplies did not arrive. If that point had been reached before Lincoln was sworen in what would have happened?