...s, he accounts the acceptance by the Washington Government of the attack on Fort Sumter as a challenge to war, followed by the calling out of 75,000 men, as a grand political blunder. He excoriates Mr. Buchanan --whom he looks upon as the weakest and meanest of all the tools ever used by a tyrannical faction — for not reinforcing Fort Sumter at a time when it could have been done without giving offence...