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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Mr. Buchanan's administration. (search)
ional compact which we have made with our sister States. Their rights will be held sacred by us. Under the Constitution it is their own question, and there let it remain. Gales and Seaton's Register of Debates, vol. XII., part 1, 1835-6, p. 781. A new source of anti-slavery agitation was about this time opened against the execution of the old Fugitive Slave Law, passed in February, 1793. This was greatly increased by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, at the January term, 1842, in the case of Prigg vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 16 Peter, 689. It is true, the opinion of the Court, delivered by Mr. Justice Story, explicitly affirmed the Constitutional right of the master to recover his fugitive slave in any State to which he had fled. It even went so far as to clothe the master himself with full authority, in every State of the Union, to seize arid recapture his slave, wherever he can do it without a breach of the peace or any illegal violen
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 7: (search)
tates which had already seceded. It will be recollected that on the 4th February, when the Peace Convention assembled, six of the cotton States, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Florida, had already adopted ordinances of secession; and that but four days thereafter (8th February) deputies from these States had adopted and published at Montgomery, Alabama, a Provisional Constitution for the socalled Confederate States. The Union was then crumbling to pieces. One month only of the session of Congress remained. Within this brief period it was necessary that the Convention should recommend amendments to the Constitution in sufficient time to enable both Houses to act upon them before their final adjournment. It was also essential to success that these amendments should be sustained by a decided majority of the commissioners both from the Northern and the border States. It was, however, soon discovered that the same malign influence which had caused ever
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 9: (search)
three hundred men had then (on the 15th December), or some time later, been sent to Forts Moultrie and Sumter, both would now have been in the possession of the United States, & c. And again, It would have been easy to reenforce this fort (Sumter) down to about the 12th February. In making these declarations, he must surely have forgotten not only his own objection to sending these very three hundred men from Fortress Monroe, but also the fate of the Star of the West, in the early part of January, with his recruits from New York, which had been substituted under his advice and direction for the Brooklyn. The reader must have observed that we speak argumentatively and doubtingly of the General's statement of this conversation. We do this simply because President Buchanan, although a party to it, has no recollection whatever of its particulars. The reason doubtless is, that, believing General Scott to have been aware before the interview that the President would not violate his a
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 10: (search)
d the Brooklyn ordered to carry reenforcements to the Fort—the Star of the West substituted at General Scott's instance she is fired upon Major Anderson demands of Governor Pickens a disavowal of the act the Governor demands the surrender of the Fort the Major proposes to refer the question to Washington the Governor accepts Colonel Hayne and Lieutenant Hall arrive in Washington on the 13th January the truce letter from Governor Pickens not delivered to the President until the 81st January the answer to it Colonel Hayne's insulting reply it is returned to him Virginia sends Mr. Tyler to the President with a view to avoid hostilities his arrival in Washington and his proposals message of the President. On the 20th December, 1860, the South Carolina Convention adopted an ordinance of secession, and on the 22d appointed three of their most distinguished citizens to proceed forthwith to Washington to treat with the Government of the United States concerning the relations
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
cer of 2d December, 1862, attempts to excuse this deplorable want of memory to the prejudice of Mr. Buchanan. Whilst acknowledging his error in having said that the countermand of Mr. Floyd's order was in March, instead of early in the previous January, he insists that this was an immaterial mistake, and still actually claims the credit of having prevented the shipment of the cannon. An immaterial mistake! Why, time was of the very essence of the charge against Mr. Buchanan. It was the alleged delay from January till March in countermanding the order, which afforded any pretext for an assault on his administration. After his glaring mistake had been exposed, simple justice, not to speak of magnanimity, would have required that he should retract his error in a very different spirit and manner from that which he has employed. It is due to Colonel Maynadier to gives his own explanation for having obeyed the order of Secretary Floyd. In his letter to the Potter Committee of the