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Jefferson Davis (search for this): article 1
hat his obligation to preserve inviolate the sacred rights of the State of South Carolina, justify the sacrifice necessary to secure that end. The Governor does not desire to remind the President of the responsibilities which are upon him. Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. Magrath. To Hon. I. W. Hayne, Special Envoy from the State of South Carolina to the President of the United States. On the arrival of Col. Hayne in Washington, ten Southern Senators, including Jeff. Davis, Slidell, Benjamin, and Wigfall, wrote him a letter, advising him to delay the demand until the seceded States should have formed a confederacy. They offer to propose to the President to guarantee that Fort Sumter shall not be reinforced in the mean time. In reply to this letter Col. Hayne accedes to the request, and assures them that if the President gives that guarantee, South Carolina will not attack Fort Sumter. The ten Southern Senators then lay before the President the co
Benjamin (search for this): article 1
o preserve inviolate the sacred rights of the State of South Carolina, justify the sacrifice necessary to secure that end. The Governor does not desire to remind the President of the responsibilities which are upon him. Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. Magrath. To Hon. I. W. Hayne, Special Envoy from the State of South Carolina to the President of the United States. On the arrival of Col. Hayne in Washington, ten Southern Senators, including Jeff. Davis, Slidell, Benjamin, and Wigfall, wrote him a letter, advising him to delay the demand until the seceded States should have formed a confederacy. They offer to propose to the President to guarantee that Fort Sumter shall not be reinforced in the mean time. In reply to this letter Col. Hayne accedes to the request, and assures them that if the President gives that guarantee, South Carolina will not attack Fort Sumter. The ten Southern Senators then lay before the President the correspondence between
Wigfall (search for this): article 1
iolate the sacred rights of the State of South Carolina, justify the sacrifice necessary to secure that end. The Governor does not desire to remind the President of the responsibilities which are upon him. Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. Magrath. To Hon. I. W. Hayne, Special Envoy from the State of South Carolina to the President of the United States. On the arrival of Col. Hayne in Washington, ten Southern Senators, including Jeff. Davis, Slidell, Benjamin, and Wigfall, wrote him a letter, advising him to delay the demand until the seceded States should have formed a confederacy. They offer to propose to the President to guarantee that Fort Sumter shall not be reinforced in the mean time. In reply to this letter Col. Hayne accedes to the request, and assures them that if the President gives that guarantee, South Carolina will not attack Fort Sumter. The ten Southern Senators then lay before the President the correspondence between them and Col.
Washington (search for this): article 1
acknowledge the receipt of your demand for the surrender of this fort to the authorities of South Carolina, and to say, in reply, that the demand is one with which I cannot comply. Your Excellency knows that I have recently sent a messenger to Washington, and that it will be impossible for me to receive an answer to my dispatches, forwarded by him, at an earlier date than next Monday. What the character of my instructions may be, I cannot foresee. Should your Excellency deem fit, prior to a resort to arms, to refer this matter to Washington, it would afford me the sincerest pleasure to depute one of my officers to accompany any messenger you may deem proper to be the bearer of your demand. Hoping to God that in this, and all other matters in which the honor, welfare and lives of our fellow-countrymen are concerned, we shall so act as to meet His approval, and deeply regretting that you have made a demand of me with which I cannot comply. I have the honor to be, With the
Robert Anderson (search for this): article 1
highest regard, Your obedient servant, Robert Anderson, Major U. S. Army, Commanding. [theof the United States, under the command of Major Anderson. I regard that possession as not consisteCarolina; and I have this day addressed to Major Anderson a communication to obtain from him the pose authorities of this State. The reply of Major Anderson informs me that he has no authority to do h Carolina. The demand I have made of Major Anderson, and which I now make of you, is suggestedFort Sumter is now held, demanded from Major Robert Anderson, now in command of that fort, its delit, it is not deemed necessary to reinforce Major Anderson, because he makes no such request, and feeured, from the letter of Col. Hayne, that "Major Anderson and his command do now obtain all necessar these facilities may still be afforded to Major Anderson. This is as it should be. Major Anderson Major Anderson is not menacing Charleston; and I am convinced that the happiest result which can be attained is, th
January 26th (search for this): article 1
high Christian and moral duty to keep the peace, and to avoid all causes of mutual irritation. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, J. Holt, Secretary of War, ad interim. This reply is sent by the Senators to Colonel Hayne, with the hope that while its terms are not "as satisfactory as could be desired," yet South Carolina will not feel it her duty to open hostilities. Col. Hayne then refers all the correspondence to the Government of South Carolina, and, under date of Jan. 26th, receives a letter from Secretary Magrath, which he is informed will be the last addressed him on the subject. The letter says: "The opinion of the Governor, as to the propriety of the demand which is contained in the letter, with the delivery of which you are charged, has not only been confirmed by the circumstances which your mission has developed, but is now increased into a conviction of its necessity. The safety of the State requires that the position of the President should be
A. G. Magrath (search for this): article 1
ng Fort Sumter: Sir: I have thought proper, under all the circumstances of the peculiar state of public affairs in the country at present, to appoint the Hon. A. G. Magrath and Gen. D. F. Jamila, both members of the Executive Council, and of the highest position in the State, to present to you considerations of the gravest pury to secure that end. The Governor does not desire to remind the President of the responsibilities which are upon him. Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. Magrath. To Hon. I. W. Hayne, Special Envoy from the State of South Carolina to the President of the United States. On the arrival of Col. Hayne in Wasto open hostilities. Col. Hayne then refers all the correspondence to the Government of South Carolina, and, under date of Jan. 26th, receives a letter from Secretary Magrath, which he is informed will be the last addressed him on the subject. The letter says: "The opinion of the Governor, as to the propriety of the demand
January 11th, 1861 AD (search for this): article 1
umter, is published. The following letters are of interest: [the Governor to Major Anderson.] State of South Carolina, Executive Office, Charleston, January 11, 1861. To Major Rovert Anderson, Commanding Fort Sumter: Sir: I have thought proper, under all the circumstances of the peculiar state of public affairs in tic property as is under your charge. Your obd't serv't, [Signed] F. W. Pickens. [Major Anderson to the Governor.] Headquarters, Fort Sumter, S. C., January 11, 1861. To His Excellency F. W. Pickens, Governor of South Carolina: Sir: --I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your demand for the surrender of thajor U. S. Army, Commanding. [the Governor to the President of the United States.] State of South Carolina, Executive Office, Headquarters, Charleston, Jan. 11, 1861. Sir: --At the time of the separation of the State of South Carolina from the United States, Fort Sumter was, and still is, in the possession of troops o
Sumter (search for this): article 1
The Fort Sumter correspondence. the Summons to surrender — refusal of Maj. Anderson--the demand on the Federal Government, &c. The correspondence between the South Carolina authorities and Maj. Anderson and the Federal Government, relative to Fort Sumter, is published. The following letters are of interest: [the Governor to Major Anderson.] State of South Carolina, Executive Office, Charleston, January 11, 1861. To Major Rovert Anderson, Commanding Fort Sumter: Sir: I have thought proper, under all the circumstances of the peculiar state of public affairs in the country at present, to appoint the Hon. A. G. Magrath and Gen. D. F. Jamila, both members of the Executive Council, and of the highest position in the State, to present to you considerations of the gravest public character, and of the deepest interest to all who deprecate the improper waste of life, to induce the delivery of Fort Sumter to the constituted authorities of the State of South Caro
Slidell (search for this): article 1
igation to preserve inviolate the sacred rights of the State of South Carolina, justify the sacrifice necessary to secure that end. The Governor does not desire to remind the President of the responsibilities which are upon him. Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. G. Magrath. To Hon. I. W. Hayne, Special Envoy from the State of South Carolina to the President of the United States. On the arrival of Col. Hayne in Washington, ten Southern Senators, including Jeff. Davis, Slidell, Benjamin, and Wigfall, wrote him a letter, advising him to delay the demand until the seceded States should have formed a confederacy. They offer to propose to the President to guarantee that Fort Sumter shall not be reinforced in the mean time. In reply to this letter Col. Hayne accedes to the request, and assures them that if the President gives that guarantee, South Carolina will not attack Fort Sumter. The ten Southern Senators then lay before the President the correspondenc
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