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The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
y without one conflict of arms, one execution, or one arrest for treason. In the mean time it is suggested that exports should remain as free as at present; all duties, however, on imports, collected. (outside of the cities,*) as such receipts, would be needed for the national debt, invalid pensions, &c., and only articles contraband of war be refused admittance. But even this refusal would be unnecessary, as the foregoing views each of the idea of invading a seceded State. October 29, 1860. Winfield Scott.Gen. Scott, --In forts or on board ships-of-war. The great aim and object of this plan was to gain time — say eight or ten months--to await expected measures of conciliation on the part of the North, and the subsidence of angry feelings in the opposite quarter. Lieut. General Scott's respects to the Secretary of War to say: That a copy of his "Views, &c." was dispatched to the President yesterday, in great haste; but the copy intended for the Sec