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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix G (search)
Appendix G correspondence between the commissioners of South Carolina and the President of the United States (Buchanan) relative to the forts in the harbor of Charleston. Letter of the commissioners to the President Washington, December 28, 1860. Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People of South Carolina, under which we are authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United States for the delivery of the forts, magazines, lighthouses, and other real estate, with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the public debt, and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States as agent of the confederated States of which South Carolina was recently a member; and generally to negotiate as to all other measures and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation of the parties, and for the continuan