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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
ted and the national credit impaired, and thus bequeathed to his successors, against whom he was about to take up arms, all the difficulties he had been able to accumulate in their path. A serious scandal, which brought the personnel of Mr. Buchanan's government into great disrepute, occurred about this time, to increase the anxiety of the public in regard to the condition of the public treasury. The contract for military transportation in the West had been given to the house of Russell; Mr. Floyd, during his administration as Secretary of War, had the culpable weakness to endorse drafts of this house without guarantee of any kind, or regular accountability for sums not yet due, which had finally reached the enormous figures of nearly if not quite a million dollars. The irregularity of these drafts being well known, they could not be negotiated; and in order to realize upon them, Russell induced a Mr. Bailey, a relative of the Secretary of War and treasurer of the Indian funds, to b
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), chapter 8 (search)
le we feel obliged, out of regard for truth, to show the amount of responsibility resting upon Mr. Floyd in these culpable transactions, we eagerly seize this opportunity to modify an opinion, too sery affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress, Second Session, Report No. 91). The number of muskets which Mr. Floyd caused to be transferred from the Northern to the Southern arsenals in 1860 amounted to one hu and South. The order of transfer having been issued in the spring of 1860, we may allow that Mr. Floyd had no intention of securing arms for the Southern insurrection, and that an untoward coincideion with the first, greatly aggravates it. This is an order issued December 20, 1860, in which Mr. Floyd directed forty columbiads and four thirty-two-pounders to be sent to the fort on Ship Island, use his successor, Mr. Holt, hastened to revoke it. We persist, therefore, in thinking that Mr. Floyd failed in the performance of his duty by taking advantage of his official position to favor th