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The National crisis.
The Washington Constitution of yesterday announces that the resignation of Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, was tendered on Saturday, and accepted by the President.--The Star of the evening before, foreshadowing this result, says: ‘ The on dit of the day, immediately around us is, that Secretaries Floyd, Thompson, and Thomas, all of whom believe in the alleged constitutional right of secession, it will be remembered, have formally notified the President that they will resign their respective portfolios unless he accede to the demand of the South Carolina Commissioners, that orders shall be issued to Major Anderson directing him to go back to Fort Moultrie from Fort Sumter, with all his force — of course thus shadowing the latter to the --This rumor is probably true. we may not inappropriately add, that if such orders are issued to Major Anderson. Secretaries Toney, Holt, Black and Stanton will probably resign. But we have not the least idea that the President will accommodate the secession commissioners in this connection — none whatever. ’
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 31, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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