CHAPTER XXIV. MR. BUCHANAN'S TRUCE

Return of the Brooklyn. The President's Interview
with the South Carolina Delegation. Mr. Buchanan's
Truce. Major Buell's Visit to Anderson.
Memorandum. Character of Instructions

The Buell

CHAPTER XXV. THE RETIREMENT OF CASS

Failure of the Concession Policy. Movements towards
Secession. Resignation of Secretary Cobb. Cobb's
Secession Address. Resignation of Secretary Cass.
The Buchanan-Floyd Incident. The Conspirators ad-

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CHAPTER XXVI. THE SENATE COMMITTEE OF
THIRTEEN

Secession Debates in the Senate. Speeches of Cling-
man, Brown, Iverson, Wigfall, Mason, Jefferson
Davis, Hale, Crittenden, Pugh, Douglas. Powell's
Motion for a Select Committee. Speeches of King,
Collamer, Foster, Green, Wade. Senate Com-
mittee of Thirteen Appointed

CHAPTER XXVII. THE HOUSE COMMITTEE OF
THIRTY-THREE

The President's Message in the House. Compromise
Efforts. Motion to Appoint a Committee of Thirty-
Three. Committee Appointed. Corwin made Chair-
man. Sickles's Speech. Vallandigham's Speech.
McClernand's Speech. Compromise Propositions.
Jenkins's Plan. Noell's Plan.

Plan. Vallandigham's Plan

Andrew Johnson's

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CONSPIRACY PRO-

CLAIMED

Hopes of Compromise.

President

Party Pledges to the Union.
Buchanan's Advice. Nullification and
Secession. Estrangement between North and South.
Cabinet Treachery and Intrigue. The Congressional

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Debates. Compromise Committees. The Conspirators'
Strategy. Elements of Disturbance. Hopes of Peace-
Dunn's Resolution. Mr. Buchanan's
Secession Proclaimed

able Secession.
Proclamation.

CHAPTER XXIX. THE FORTY MUSKETS

Condi-

Captain Foster. His Arrival in Charleston.
tion of Fort Moultrie. Temporary Defenses. Foster
Requests Forty Muskets. The Question of Arming
Workmen. Foster Receives Forty Muskets. Their
Return Demanded. The Alleged Charleston Excite-
ment. Floyd Orders the Muskets Returned. Foster's
Compliance and Comment

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

CHAPTER I

JEFFERSON DAVIS ON REBELLION

WB

HILE the town of Lawrence was undergoing burning and pillage, Governor Shannon wrote to Colonel Sumner to say that as the marshal and sheriff had finished making their arrests, and he presumed had by that time dismissed the posse, he required a company of United States troops to be stationed at Lawrence to secure the safety of the citizens in both person and property," asking also a like company for Lecompton and Topeka. The next day the citizens of Lawrence had the opportunity to smother their indignation when they saw the embers of the FreeState Hotel and the scattered fragments of their printing-presses patrolled and "protected" by the Federal dragoons whose presence they had vainly implored a few days before. It was time the Governor should move. The guerrilla bands with their booty spread over the country, and the freeState men rose in a spirit of fierce retaliation. Assassinations, house-burnings, expulsions, and

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