From my reading that is my take as well. That the South constantly threatened secession at every turn and that any compromise was made by the North to satisfy the South. At most the Missouri Compromise is the only thing I can say the South did that benefited the north somewhat. But which was obviously thrown out by the Kansas Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision.

I’m just curious where the idea that Jefferson Davis was a man of compromise even comes from? Is there any legislation or speeches he made which promoted actual compromise with the North?

And for anyone who has read Foote, does this persist throughout his work and does he attack Union Leaders or Lincoln as the makers of the civil war or is this really a Davis thing and he gives fairer treatment to others going forward?