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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t created a stronger impression on my mind, and led to the error above alluded to, and which, however unimportant, I desire to correct. Jefferson Davis. Montgomery, May 8, 1861. Washington, City, April 13, 1861. Sir: On the 15th March, ult., I left with Judge Crawford, one of the Commissioners of the Confederate States, a note in writing to the effect following: "I feel entire confidence that Fort Sumter will be evacuated in the next five days. And this measure is feltservation that a civil war might be prevented by the success of my mediation. You read a letter of Mr. Weed, to show how irksome and responsible the withdrawal of troops from Sumter was. A portion of my communication to Judge Crawford on the 15th of March was founded upon these remarks, and the pledge to evacuate Fort Sumter is less forcible than the words you employed. Those words were: "Before this letter reaches you (a proposed letter by me to President Davis), Sumter will have been evacua