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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 3: the Democracy in 1860. (search)
ician and a warm friend of General McClellan, and chatting over matters which were of interest when we were political friends, he said to me: I suppose you are not aware that I witnessed a very remarkable scene between yourself and President Buchanan in the latter part of December, 1860, when I met you in Washington. I said I did not know that he had seen anything between Mr. Buchanan and myself. He answered that he had, and added: You told me that you intended to advise Buchanan to treat Barnwell, Adams, and Orr,--the commissioners appointed by South Carolina to present the ordinance of secession to the President,--as traitors guilty of an overt act of treason; and that another audience had been granted you by the President for Monday morning at ten o'clock for that purpose. I determined to be there; and going up soon after ten o'clock I got a sight of that interview and it impressed itself upon my mind very strongly, and I have told it many times since to different friends. Ah, I