Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1.
Frank Moore, Ed.

The Democratic office holders in New York threaten to hold over. Attorney-General Black has written to the Collector, that if South Carolina secedes it is a virtual dissolution of the Union, and that the Collector of the port of New York and his federal assistants are relieved from all further accountability, and have a right to collect and retain the revenues accruing here, and keep them until the legislature of New York or the city authorities attach the same. If a single State goes out of the Union, Mr. Schell regards it as broken up, and says, “Lincoln is not President;” and neither he nor any of the federal officials will resign or surrender their power and the public money to any except to the city treasury. Mr. John J. Cisco, the Subtreasurer, takes the same view. He has several millions at his disposal. A large portion is in bars of gold, valued at $1,000 each. These are being painted white, so as not to attract attention in case of being removed from the sub-treasury vaults in case of a riot or of Lincoln claiming to be the President.--N. Y. Correspondent of Mobile Register. [9]

it is asserted in Charleston, that President Buchanan had pledged his honor to South Carolinians that the forts should not be reinforced, that they should be given up to the State authorities when demanded, and also that General Cass's resignation originated in his condemning this promise of treason.--Cor. Evening Post, Dec. 31.