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Evacuation of Fort Sumter--secret history.[from the Columbia (S. C.) Guardian.] State of South Carolina, Headquarters,Aug. 31, 1861.
I have every reason, from information reserved by me in the most confidential manner not forbidding publication, however,) and through one very near the most intimate counsels of the President of the United States, induce me to believe that the following article was submitted, as a proof sheet, to Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet; that a proclamation, in conformity with its general views, was to be issued; and that a change in the decision of the Cabinet was made in one night, when exactly the contrary course was adopted.
It is asserted in this article, which, in all probability, is a proof-sheet from a confidential New York paper,) that of the President desired to excite and madden the whole North to a war of extermination against slavery, and in favor of the absolute plunder and conquest of the South, he had only to resolve that Major Anderson and