Chapter 139: Davis gives the go ahead to attack Sumter.

On April 9. When Jefferson Davis tells his Cabinet that he is ready to proceed, he finds only one dissenter, that being his Secretary of State, Robert Toombs who says:

Mr. President, at this time it is suicide, murder and will lose us every friend at the North.
You will wantonly strike a hornet’s nest which extends from mountains to oceans, and
legions, now quiet, will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary; it puts us in
the wrong; it is fatal!

Others disagree with fire-eater Louis Wigfall summing up:

No one now doubts that Lincoln intends war. The delay on his part is
only to complete his preparations.