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Title: The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians biographers and specialists; a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Larned, Josephus Nelson, 1836-1913 Smith, Donald Eugene, 1878-
Subjects: History
Publisher: Springfield, Mass. C.A. Nichols publishing company
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afor the reduction of Fort Sumter before inau-guration of President Lincoln.—I am perfectlysatisfied, wrote Governor Pickens of South Caro-lina to Howell Cobb, President of the ProvisionalCongress of the Confederacy, in a letter datedFeb. 13, 1861, that the welfare of the new con-federation and the necessities of the State requirethat Fort Sumter should be reduced before theclose of the present administration at Washington.If an attack is delayed until after the inaugurationof the incoming President of the United States,the troops now gathered in the capital may thenbe employed in attempting that which, previousto that time, they could not be spared to do. Theydare not leave Washington now and do that whichthen will be a measure too inviting to be resisted.Mr. Lincoln cannot do more for this State thanMr. Buchanan has done. Mr. Lincoln will not con-cede what Mr. Buchanan has refused. Mr.Buchanan has placed his refusal upon groundswhich determine his reply to six States, as com- 8822
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UNITED STATES, 1861 Inaugurationof President Lincoln UNITED STATES, 1861 pletely as to the same demand if made by a singleState. If peace can be secured, it will be by theprompt use of the occasion, when the forces ofthe United States are withheld from our harbor.If war can be averted, it will be by making thecapture of Fort Sumter a fact accomplished duringthe continuance of the present administration, andleaving to the incoming administration the ques-tion of an open declaration of war. Such adeclaration, separated, as it will be, from anypresent act of hostilities during Mr. Lincolns ad-ministration, may become to him a matter requir-ing consideration. That consideration will notbe expected of him, if the attack on the fort ismade during his administration, and becomes,therefore, as to him, an act of present hostility.Mr. Buchanan cannot resist, because he has notthe power. Mr. Lincoln may not attack, becausethe cause of the quarrel will have been, or maybe, considered by him as pa

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