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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 2: (search)
n to proceed to a hostile act. Buchanan's Administration, Chapt. IX, p. 166. These instructions were afterward modified—as we are informed by Buchanan—so as, instead of requiring him to defend himself to the last extremity, to direct him to do so as long as any reasonable hope remained of saving the fort. Ibid. Immediately after the secession of the state, the convention of South Carolina deputed three distinguished citizens of that state—Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, and James L. Orr—to proceed to Washington, 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
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix G (search)
settled with temperance and judgment. We have the honor, sir, to be, very respectfully, your obedient servants, R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams, Commissioners. James L. Orr, To the President of the United States. reply of the President to the commissioners Washington City, December 30, 1860. Gentlemen: I have the honor to the city of Charleston. With great personal regard, I remain Yours, very respectfully, James Buchanan. To Honorable Robert W. Barnwell, James H. Adams, James L. Orr. reply of the commissioners to the President Washington, D. C., January 1, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of t to Charleston on to-morrow afternoon. We have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servants, R. W. Barnwell, J. H. Adams, Commissioners. James L. Orr, To his Excellency the President of the United States. The last communication is endorsed as follows: Executive Mansion, 3 1/2 o'clock, Wednesday.
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
nce, 4, 7. Slavery, 5. Nullification, 190. Definition, 156. O Oglethorpe, —, 1. O'Kane, Colonel, 364. Ordinance of 1787, 4, 6, 7, 23. Sixth article, 4, 5, 6. Oregon, 214. Extracts from speech by Davis, 447-52. Orr, James L., 182. Orr (ship), 339. P Pacific railway surveys, 20-21. Palgrave, Sir, Francis, 131. Palinurus, 13. Pandora, 10. Paris, Count of, 172, 173. Partisan rangers, 439. Patterson, Major-General, 293, 296, 300Orr (ship), 339. P Pacific railway surveys, 20-21. Palgrave, Sir, Francis, 131. Palinurus, 13. Pandora, 10. Paris, Count of, 172, 173. Partisan rangers, 439. Patterson, Major-General, 293, 296, 300, 301, 313, 316, 319. Patterson, William. Jersey plan, 91-92. Pawnee (ship), 252. Peace Congress, 214-15, 380. Plan agreed upon, 216. Plan rejected by Congress, 216. Pegram, Colonel, 293. Pendleton, Capt. W. N., 311. Pennington, —, 32. Pennsylvania. Fugitive slaves, 69. Commissioners to Annapolis, 76. Instructions to delegates to Constitutional convention, 78. Ratification of Constitution, 91. Pennsylvania (ship), 285. Personal liberty laws, 69, 70.