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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
s election their true policy was to cling to the Union. Such, since the period of Mr. Lincoln's election, having been the condition of the Southern States, the Views of General Scott, addressed before that event to the Secretary of War, on the 29th and 30th October, 1860, were calculated to do much injury in misleading the South. From the strange inconsistencies they involve, it would be difficult to estimate whether they did most harm in encouraging or in provoking secession. So far as thofore, mean to stay away from the polls. My sympathies, however, are with the Bell and Everett ticket. After all these preliminaries, we now proceed to a different side of the picture presented by the General. In the same Views (the 29th October, 1860), he says that, From a knowledge of our Southern population it is my solemn conviction that there is some danger of an early act of rashness preliminary to secession, viz., the seizure of some or all of the following posts:—Forts Jackson an
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 9: (search)
to be brought into harmony with their conquerors, but to be held for generations by heavy garrisons, at an expense quadruple the net duties or taxes it would be possible to extort from them, followed by a protector or an emperor. In view of these fearful forebodings, we are not surprised that he should have despaired of the Union, and been willing to say to the cotton States, Wayward sisters, depart in peace. Nor that he should have fallen back on his opinion expressed in the Views (29th October, 1860), that a smaller evil [than such a civil war] would be to allow the fragments of the great Republic to form themselves into new Confederacies. The General, however, in the same letter to Secretary Seward, presents his alternative for. all these evils. He advises Mr. Lincoln's administration to throw off the old and assume a new designation—the Union party; adopt the conciliatory measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden, or the Peace Convention, and my life upon it, we shall have no new
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Appendix (search)
Appendix General Scott's views of the 29th and 30th of October, 1860, published by his authority in the National Intelligenoer of the 18th of January, 1861. Views suggested by the imminent danger (October 29, 1860) of a disruption of the Union by the Secession of one or more of the Southern States. To save timeOctober 29, 1860) of a disruption of the Union by the Secession of one or more of the Southern States. To save time the right of secession may be conceded, and instantly balanced by the correlative right, on the part of the Federal Government, against an interior State or States, to reestablish by force, if necessary, its former continuity of territory—Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy, last chapter. But break this glorious Union by whar be refused admittance. But even this refusal would be unnecessary, as the foregoing views eschew the idea of invading a seceded State. Winfield Scott. October 29th, 1860. Lieut.-General Scott's respects to the Secretary of War to say— That a copy of his Views, &c. was despatched to the President yesterday, in great has