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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xvii. (search)
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While sitting one day, Secretary Stantonwhom I usually found quite taciturn — referred to the meeting of the Buchanan Cabinet called upon receipt of the news that Colonel Anderson had evacuated Moultrie, and gone into Fort Sumter, This little incident, said Stanton, was the crisis of our history, the pivot upon which everything turned.
Had he remained in Fort Moultrie, a very different combination of circumstances would have arisen.
The attack on Sumter — commenced by the South-united the North, and made the success of the Confederacy impossible.
I shall never forget, he continued, our coming together by special summons that night.
Buchanan sat in his arm-chair in a corner of the room, white as a sheet, with the stump of a cigar in his mouth.
The despatches were laid before us; and so much violence ensued, that he had to turn us all outof-doors?
The day following, by special permission of Mr. Lincoln, I was present at the regular Cabinet meeting.
Judge Bates came i