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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
ts and supplies would be made. He reminded them that Congress alone had the power to make war, and that it would be an act of usurpation on the part of the Executive to give any assurance that Congress would not exercise that power. When this correspondence reached Charleston, Governor Pickens ordered Hayne to present the demand for the surrender of Sumter forthwith. He did so, January 31, 1861. in a letter of considerable length, to which Secretary Holt gave a final answer on the 6th of February, in which, as in his reply to Senators Fitzpatrick, Mallory, and Slidell, he claimed for the Government the right to send forward re-enforcements when, in the judgment of the President, the safety of the garrison required them — a right resting on the same foundation as the right to occupy the fort. He denied the right of South Carolina to the possession of the fort, and said:--If the announcement, so repeatedly made, of the President's pacific purpose in continuing the occupation of F