Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869 to the House of Representatives
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09197 Author/Creator: Pickens, Francis Wilkinson, 1805-1869 Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript document Date: 28 January 1861 Pagination: 2 p. Order a Copy
Informs the legislature of J. W. Hayne's confidential mission to negotiate with Buchanan over the right to reinforce Fort Sumter. "The letter of the President...asserts in plain terms, his right to send reinforcements, and I cannot disconnect this positive assertion of his right from an intention, or expectation, speedily to exercise it."
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