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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 4: seditious movements in Congress.--Secession in South Carolina, and its effects. (search)
of the United States within its limits, and he wanted to test, at the very threshold of their deliberations, the accuracy of the President's logic. This brought out William Porcher Miles, who assured the Convention that they had nothing to fear from any hostile action on the part of President Buchanan. There was not the least danger of his sending any re-enforcements to the forts in Charleston harbor. He (Miles) and some of his colleagues, he said, had conversed with the President December 9, 1860. on the subject, and had orally and in writing admonished him, that if he should attempt to send a solitary soldier to those forts, the instant the intelligence reached South Carolina, the people would forcibly storm and capture them. They assured him that they would take good care to give that information to the people, and that they had sources of information at Washington (the traitorous Secretary of War?) which made it impossible for an order for the sending of re-enforcements to b
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
ns with them. Were this not done, .it would be difficult for the Northern States to take a place among nations, and their flag would not be respected or recognized. Charleston Courier, February 12, 1861. Only a week earlier than this (February 5th), the late Senator Hammond. one of the South Carolina conspirators, in a letter to a kinswoman in Schenectady, New York, after recommending her to read the sermon of a Presbyterian clergyman in Brooklyn, named Van Dyke, preached on the 9th of December, 1860, for proofs that the buying and selling of men, women, and children was no sin, said: We dissolve the Union--and it is forever dissolved, be assured — to get clear of Yankee meddlesomeness and Puritanical bigotry. I say this, being half a Yankee and half a Puritan. His father was a New England school-teacher. We absolve you by this, he continued, from all the sins of Slavery, and take upon ourselves all its supposed sin and evil, openly before the world, and in the sight of God. W