Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Seward or search for Seward in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], The intended evacuation of Fort Sumter. (search)
the new Administration — reinforcement or withdrawal of the garrison.--The Cabinet met at eleven o'clock and discussed the question until two P. M., when it was formally decided to withdraw the troops from Sumter on the ground that Mr. Buchanan had left the fort in a condition that rendered its reinforcement impossible without a greater sacrifice of life than the importance of the position would justify. The decision has been received by the radical Republicans with great disapprobation. Mr. Seward left the Cabinet meeting and proceeded directly to the Senate Chamber, where he was soon surrounded by his party friends anxious to hear the result. He seemed evidently easy, and conversed with more than his usual vivacity. He thinks --now that the first important step has been taken in the right direction — it will be quite possible to preserve the peace and avoid civil war. A dispatch to the New York Tribune, sent on Sunday, before the Cabinet had arrived at a determination, says