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LAW CAIiU.
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MAJOII ANDEIISON
VUIMVCII n NEW YORK !
APPEARANCE OF ADDER ON AND HIS MEN.
THEIR RECErriOX.
DOI BI.E DAY’S STATE WENT.
The New \ork Eventny Erprt/e, of
Fiiursdny eontiiii.-s the following particulars
>f the arrival of Major Audersou ia New
York :
Fhe g ivcrnment steamer Baltic arrived
this (Thursday) morning. When she was
r ih'.>rred off .Sandy Iloolc, a telegram was
sent to Quran tine, announcing the event,
and the people immediately lined the long
j extent of shore, with the ohjeet of giving
her an enthusiastic reception. Small boats
were chartered by private individuals who
were desirous .f greeting the gallant defend
er of a besc-ige 1 fort.
1 lie noble steam ship as she came up the
Narrows, elioited ihe utmost enthusiasm.—
She carried at her masthead the colors which
had been flying over Fort Sumter up to the
moment of its evacuation. The Union had
pierced by four balls, and tbe field was
torn. It was naturally an object of curiosity
and interest by the officers, civilians and
men on board.
j The fl ig which had preceded it, and which
| was first bullet rent, was flying at the fore
j mast head of the vessel.
I The following are the names of the pas-*
sengers :
M ijor Anderson, Ist Artillery ; A. Dou
b led ay, Captain ; T. Seymour, Captain ; J.
C. Davis, Ist Lieutenant j N. J. Hall, *2ud
Lieutenant; J. E. Fisher, Captain of Ea
giueer Corps; G. \\ . Snyder, Ist Lieuten
ant of Engineer Corps; ILK. Meade, Jr.,
‘Jil l Lieutenant of Engineer Corps; Dr. 8.
W. Crawford, Medical Corps; Miss Annie
F Davis and attendant; Sergeant Ram
chan, Company H,d'2 men ; Serg. Scherb
uer, Compiny K, il) men; John Livarar’
Engineer Corps, wounded in the battle j
John Kriom, A.rtillery, wounded in battle }
•Jus. H tyer, Artillery, wounded in battle ;
Ujo. Fiiicli;irJ, Artillery, wounJed in battle j
l=t Lieut. E. j.M. Jv. HuHson, 4th Artillery;
‘Jud Liicut. liobt. <>. Tyler, B<l Artillery ;
Lieut. C. J. Thomas, Ist Infantry, and 200
recuits for general service.
The Health Officer yocs on Hoard.
When the vessel was nearly opposite Quar
antine, the Flealth Officer, Dr. Gunn, went
on board, and after a formal inspection, en
gaged in conversation with the officers.—
Major Anderson was, of course, “the observ
ed of all observers,” and when the vast mul
titude ou the shore were hoarse in calling
for him to appear, a messenger was dispatch
ed to the cabin to apprize him ‘ ( the fact,
aud he immediately mounted the hurricane
deck, whence lie repeatedly returned the
salute. His appearance excited the most
enthusiastic cheering.
What the Officers think of the “ Courier”
Article.
Seve al gentlemen made known the arti
cle which denounced Major Anderson as a
traitor, which receutly appeared in the Now
York Courier. The Major and the officers
expressed surprise that such an article should
appear. They pronounced it simply the
result of ignorance or malice.
Major Amlersou s Statement.
Major Auderson having been applied to
for au account of the attack ou and defence
of Fort Sumter, said that he was too hoarse
to talk himself, but he deputed one of his
Lieutenants, who furnished, in substance, |
tbe following statement:
The Secession forces on the 10th inst.,
had made every arrangement for an attack,
and all their guns were manned. On the
following morning a demand was made on
Major Anderson, by Gen. Beauregard, to
evacuate the fort.
Major Anderson refused firmly to accede
to this request, aud iu answer remarked
that he would probably be starved out in a
few days. When this answer was received,
Gen. Beauregard dispatched a messenger to
the fort, wh i inquired ou what day the gar
rison would be starved out, and
Major Anderson would agree not to open
his batteries on the opposite forts meanwhile.
The Major replied that, he would probably
be oblige Ito evacuate the fort on Monday,
liefore noon, and would not commence hos
tilities unless the secession troops fired at his
fort, or the national flag which waved over
it, or the vessels which boro it. When the
answer was announced to Gen. Beauregard,
a consultation took place, after which the
(ieneral apprized Major Anderson, through
a special messenger, that he would open his
baftc ies on tbe tort in one hour. All the ’
preliminary arrangements were then made
in Fort Sumter for the expected battle, and
the command h iving taken their position at
and contiguous to the guns, were ordered
not to leave the casements till they were
surrounded.
At precisely half-past four o’clock, on the
morning of the 11th, the South Carolina
forces opened a terrific fire, with apparently
increasing and damaging vigor, on Fort Sum
ter ; but the fire was not returned till three
hours after, when the men had taken break
fast during the day ; and the shot and shell. •
which descended in a fiery shower on the
fort, enveloped the flooring in flames. Sev- j
er.il of the troops, who could be ill spared,
wre ordered te extinguish the fire. When
they had succeeded, another conflagration
was observed, and then a third, which, after
the exertions of hours, were put out. The
men were thoroughly fatigued, and some of
them almost exhausted with the work.—
When night arrived it was unusually dark
so dark that neither aim or distauce could
be observed, aud Major Auderson ordered
the batteries to be closed. f l he Secession
troops, too, partially ceased tiring, for the
same reason.
On the 13th instant, Major Anderson
again ordered the batteries to be worked
and returned a vigorous fire on the enemy.
The rapid discharge of ball and shell from
tbe secessionists contributed to make the
scorched air around the Fort almost fatal to
breathe. The tire of Gen. Beauregard’s
troops was so desperate that it was impossi
ble to work the barbette guns, which had to
be abandoned in consequence. The difficul
ties under which Major Anderson labored
were increased by the fact, that a portion of
his men had to be employed in making car
tridges, which caused intervals between the
disebatge of his guns, not otherwise intended
or expected.
On the morning of the loth mst., the
Southeast portion of the barracks of the
Fort took fire, *ud the flamea sooa spread
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY t, 1861.
rapidly, threatening a fearful death tj the
gallant defenders. When the revolutionists
observed the conflagration they increased
their fire, to the surprise of the officers of the
Fort, who did not expect such a proceeding.
Indeed, the impression was general that the
troops of South Carolina would come over
under a flag of truce and extinguished the
flames.
Nearly all Major Anderson’s command
were then engaged iu the labor of reducing
or putting out the fire, which spread so rapid
ly that if reached the precincts of the maga
zine, where ninety barrels of powder were
stored.
All the troops were then ordered to move
the p order, which, after dangerous labor,
was covered with wet blankets uud taken out
The piec.iution was rendered necessary by
the eireums'anee that the copper doors<rf the
powder chain!) -r ware hot enough almost to
cause immediate ignition. The air, too,
which surrounded the fort, was similar to
the blast of an overheated furnace and threat
ed immediate mortality among the men, who
were obliged to cover their faces continually
with wet cloths, to exteud their painful ex
istence. Mill the tire of the revolutionists
was kept up and the powder which was
saved iii order to escape anticipated explo
sion, had to be thrown into the sea. A few
of the troops, however, maimed the guns,
with the object of showing by their weak
and vain lire, that they were still alive and
would die protecting the National flag.
At this juncture, General Beauregard dis
patched a mosssenger, inquiring if Major
Anderson would evacuate the tort. Major
Anderson replied that he was ready to do so
on the conditions he had named two days
before but the Major did not otter to surreu
d'r the fort. When Gen. Beauregard heard
the reply he sent another messenger to the
i fort, ottering that Major Anderson might
! leave the fort on his own conditions — being,
I isi military phrase, the honors ot war. Ma
ijor Anderson accepted the proposition, aud
i the steamer Isabel, belonging to the revolu
tionists, afterwards came the tort,
when the commandant, troops aud laborers
j embarked.
f i he American ensign was then lowered
, from the flag-staff of the fort, and placed
over the Isabel during which ceremony a
sulutc of fifty guns was fired iu respect to the
colors. As the Isabel glided over the waters
with the Federal troops, the American flag
was raised, and a band on board struck up
“ Yankee Doodle.”
The evacuation of the fort was a necessity,
as existence there, under the circumstances,
was almost au impossibility.
Appearance of Major Anderson and his
Command.
The Commandantof Fort Sumter presents,
in his general appearauce, vivid indications
of having participated in a battle of long dura
tion. The smoke and tire wit!) which he
was surrounded have given him a brown
complexion, and the fatigue and responsibili
ty of his military position appears to have
carved many lines in his face, not presented
in the current portraits of him recently taken.
He was hoarse, and, when approached by
several gentlemen who wcut on board to
greet him, he seemed too over-worn to ans
wer the anxious questions which were put to
him on all sides. Lieut. Hall and sonic of
tbe officers also presented the appearance of
having been engaged in a fierce cannonade, j
and some of them were too much fatigued
to speak.
The countenances of the troops also told
plainly of the action in which they had ex
hibited so much continuous bravery.
Stouter teas not Rcinjorced.
The troops on board the Baltic numbered
sixty men, and the officers authoritively de
clare that the fort, on no occasion, had been
reinforced, as was erreoneously stated in a
New York journal.
Salutes in honor of Major Anderson.
When the Baltic had arived opposite Fort
Diamond and Hamilton, salutes were fired in
honor of Major Anderson. Several guns
were also discharged from Staten Island.
The Island steamer Southfield stopped her
engines opposite Quarantine, when the pas
.sengers sent up cheer after cheer in honor of
Major Anderson.
Those on hoard the Birkbeck also made
similar demonstrations—all of which Major
Anderson acknowledged.
The steamer Birkbeck came alongside the
Baltic, when opposite the Health office, and
Maj or Anderson wcut on board of her and j
was carried to Whitehall landing.
As the Commandant left the larger steam
er, the troops and all on board scut up en
thusiastic cheers.
The Brevoort House.
In anticipation of the arrival of Major
Anderson, the Brevoort House, where Mrs.
Anderson is staying, displayed its bunting in
the most patriotic manner. Flags were fly
ing from the roof and windows while the main
entrance on Fifth avenue was dressed with
the American colors. The houses opposite
the Hotel were thronged with people, and
from several windows the “ Stars aud Stripes”
flauuted in the breeze.
Major Anderson reached the Brevoort
House at about two o’clock, where he was
met by a few gentlemen, aud cordially re
ceived. Thanking them for the compliments
they had seen fit to pay him, he retired to
his own apartments, where lie met his wife.
Os the meeting, which of course was private,
nothing can he said—in fact, nothing need
be said. No doubt the noble lady was more
than happy to welcome the return of one
whose fate, a week since, seemed sealed.
Tiie public appeared to be entirely una
ware of the place to which Major Anderson
had been taken, until after his arrival, when
the news rapidly spread that he was quartered
at the Brevort. In a few minutes, quite a
throng collected, aud from a thousand throats
there went up repeated cheers for the hero
of Fort Sumter.
The Fith Regiment, Jefferson Guards,
being out upon their annual parade to cele
brate Jefferson’s birthday, heard of the loca
tion of Major Anderson, and the Colonel de
termined to pay him the honor of a march
ing salute. At half-past two o’clock the re
giment reached the hotel, the crowd of peo
ple having increased in number to several
thousands. The excitement and enthusiasm
were immense, and when the recipient of
the ovation made his appearance upon the
balcony, tremendous cheers filled the air,
hats and handkerchiefs were waved uutil it
seemed as though the assemblage were go
ing frantic. The people most signally re
buked the attempts of those parties who have
doubted the loyalty, courage and patriotism
of the gray haired defender of Fort Sumter.
For a moment the Major stood erect, apd
giving the crowd a glance, removed his cap;
then replacing it he gave the military salute,
which was responded to by another outburst
of enthusiasm.
The regiment, nt this time turned the cor
ner and marched in front of the Hotel, salu
ting as they passed. Their appearance was
very fine, and Major Anderson expressed to
those around him his gratification at the
compliment paid him.
After the last company had passed, he
turned towards the window for the purpose
>f re-entering the parlor, when another shout
from the crowd, and “ three more cheers for
Maj or Anderson” compelled him to once more
how his thanks.
He then withdrew; but the assemblage
kept up their cheering for some time after
wards, aud then dispersed in an orderly
manner.
‘l'he Major afterwards received a few friends
in the parlor, some of them ladies, and then
withdrew to his own apartments.
It was generally remarked that he had a
careworn, anxious look, and some intimate
that he bitterly feels the doubts that have
been raised regarding his loyalty to the flag
an l Government, whose honor and dignity
he has so nobly vindicated.
Statement of ('apt. Doubteday .
Capt. Doubleday says that the demand to
surrender Fort Sumter was made on the 11th,
but was refused, not only by Major Ander
son, hut by the unanimous voice of the com
mand.
On Friday morning, at 3 o’clock, the re
bels sent word that the fire would be opened
in an hour. At 4 o’clock the fire opened on 1
us from every direction, including a hidden
battery’. The fire opened with a volly from
seventeen mortars firing ten inch shells, and
shot from thirty-three guns, mostly Oolum
biads.
We took breakfast very leisurely. The
command was divided into three watches,
each under the direction of two officers. —
After breakfast, they immediately went to
the guns and opened lire on Fort Moultrie,
Cummings’ IViint, and Sullivan’s Island Iron
Battery. Cummings’ Point Battery was of
immense strength, anil most of our shot
glanced off. Major Anderson refused to al
low the men to turn the guns on the parapet,
on account of such a terrific lire being direc
ted there.
There was scarcely a room in Fort Moul
trie left in a habitable condition, and several
shots went through the Floating Battery, but
it was but, little damaged. Two guns on the
Tron Battery were dismounted. A man was
stationed, who cried shot or shell when the
rebels fired and the garrison was thus ena
bled to dodge.
At first the workmen were reluctant to
help to work the guns, but. afterwards served
most willingly and effectually against (lie
Iron Battery. The barracks caught fire sev
eral times on Friday, but were extinguished
by the efforts of Mr. Hart, of New York, and
Mr. Lyman, of Baltimore, both volunteers.
On Saturday, the officers’ quarters caught
fire from a shell. The main gates were
burnt, and the magazine was actually sur
rounded by lire, and ninety barrels of powder,
which had been taken out, were thrown into
the sea. When the magazine was encircled
by’ fire, all our materials were cut off’, and
wc had eaten our last biscuit two days be
fore. The men had to lay on the ground
j with wet handkerchiefs on their faces to pre
vent smothering and a favorable eddy of wind
was all that saved our lives. Our cartridge
bags gave out, and five men were employed
to manufacture them out of our shirts, sheets,
blankets, Ac. It will take half a million
dollars to repair Fort Sumter’s interior.—
Most of their shot were aimed at our flag.
The following was the conversation that
passed between Major Anderson and ex-Sen
ator Wigfall. The latter said.
Gen. Beauregard wishes to stop this, sir.
Major Anderson only replied “Well,
well.”
Wigfall—You’ve done all that can be
done, and Gen. Beauregard wishes to know
upon what terms you will evacuate ?
Maj. Anderson—Gen. Beauregard is al
ready acquainted with the terms.
Wigfall—Do I understand you will evac
uate ou the terms proposed.
Maj. Anderson—“ Yes, and only those.”
Wigfall then returned. Ten minutes af
ter Col. Chcsnut and others came from Gen
eral Beauregard asking if Major Anderson
wanted any help, stating that \V igfall had
not seen Gen. Beauregard for two days, and
had no authority for his demand on Major
Anderson, to which the Major replied—
“Then we have been sold. We will raise
our flag again.” But they requested him
to keep it down until communication could
be had with General Beauregard. The tir
ing then ceased, and three hours after an
other deputation came, agreeing to the terms
previously decided upon.
Fort Stun ter had not been reinforced on
any occasion. The steamer Baltic arrived
off Chaaleston on the morning of Friday,
after the firing on Sumter had commenced.
The steamers I‘awnee and Pocahontas arriv
ed yesterday. The Powhattan and the:
transport steamer Atlantic have not yet been ■
seen ; and the steam tugs, also, have not yet
been seen. During the while that the fleet
lay off Charleston a heavy gale was blowing.
The day Major Anderson evacuated, prep
aration to reinforce him had been made for
an attempt that night. A schooner was!
seized, and an agreement made to pay the
pilot and captain 8500 to put men into the
fort, but the fort was evacuated before an
attempt could be made. Captain Fox had
instructions to attempt to provision tho fort
without troops. If fired on, he was to rush
in as best he could. But tbe gale prevented
the arrival of the tugs and transport.
The Harriet Lane is soon expected to ar
rive.
The Pawnee has gone to Washington.
Among the many incidents of the battle
is that of Mr. Hart, a volunteer, who, when
the flag was shot down and the rebel lire
w’as concentrated on the flag-staff, gallantly
nailed the Stars and Stripes to (he mast
amid a deadly lire, the heroic act being
greeted by the cheers of the United States
troops.
CORREBPONDENCE
BETWEEN
MR SEWARD AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES
THE GAGE OF WAR
TIIR O WN D O WN AND A CCEPTED.
The following is the correspondence be
tween the Secretary of State and the Cora
-1 missioned for the Confederate States;
Messrs. Farst/fh and Cravfnrrl so Mr. Sen
ord f opening Negotiations and statiia
the case.
Washington City, )
March 12, 1801. f
II m. ir?. 11. Seacard, Secretary of Slat*
of United States —Sir : The undersigned
have been duly accredited by the Govern
ment of the Confederate States of America
ns commissioners to the Government of the
United States, and in pur-uance of their in
structions have now the honor to acquaint
you with that fact, and to make known,
through you, to the President of the United
States, the object of their presence iu this
capital.
Sovjii States of the late Federal Union
having in the exercise of the inherent right
of every free people to change or reform
their political institutions, aud through Gmi
ventious of their people, withdrawn from
tho United States, and re-assumed the at
tributes of sovereign power delegated toil,
have formed a Government of their own.—
‘l’lie Confederate States constitutes an inde
pendent nation defacto and de jure , and
possess a Government perfect in all its parts
and endowed with all the means of self-sup
port.
With a view to a speedy adjustment of
ail questions growing out of this political
separation, upon such terms of amity and
good will as the respective interests, geo
graphical contiguity and future welfare of
tbe two nations may render necessary, the
undersigned are instructed to make to the
government of the United States overtures
for the opening of negotiations, assuring the
government of the United States that tho
President, Congress, and the people of the
Confederate States, earnestly desire a peace
ful solution ts these great questions; that
it is neither their interest nor their wish
to make any demand which is not founded
in strictest justice, nor any act to injure 1
their late confederates.
The undersigned have now the honor, in
obedience to the instructions of their gov
ernment, to request you to appoint as early
a day as possible in order that they may ‘
present to the President of the United States
t lie credentials winch they hear and the ob
jects of tiie mission with which they arc
charged. Wo arc, very respectfully, vour
obedient servants,
John Forsytii,
Martin J. Crawford.
The Reply of Mr. Seward.
[Memorandum.]
Department ok State, )
Washington, March 15, 18G1. j
Mr. John Forsyth, of the State of Ala
bama, and Mr. Martin J. Crawford, of the
State of Georgia, on the 11th inst., through
the kind offices of a distinguished Senator,
submitted to the Secretary of State their
desire for an unofficial interview. This re
quest was, on the 12th inst., upon exclusive
ly public considerations, respectfully de
clined.
On the I.3th instant, while the Secretary
was pre-occupied, Mr. A. D. Banks, of Vir
ginia, called at this Department, and was
received by the Assistant Secretary, to whom
he delivered a sealed communication, which
he bad been charged by Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford to present to the Secretary in
person.
In that communication Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford informed the Secretary of
State that they have beeu duly accredited
by the Government of the Confederate
States of America as Commissioners to the
Government of the United States, and they
set forth the objects of their attendance at
Washington. They observe that seven
States of tlie American Union, in the exer
cise of a right inherent in every free people,
have withdrawn, through Conventions of
their people, from the United State-, re-j
assumed the attributes of sovereign power,
aud formed a Government of their own, and
that those Confederate States now constitute
an independent nation de facto aud dejure,
and possess a Government perfect in all its
parts, and fully endowed with all the means
of self-support.
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, in tlieir
aforesaid communication, thereupon proceed
ed to inform the Secretary that, with a view
to a speedy adjustment of all questions
growing out of the political separation thus
assumed, upon such terms of amity and
good Will as the respective interests, geo
graphical contiguity and the future welfare,
of the supposed two nations might render
necessary, they arc instructed to make to!
the Government of the United States over-!
tupcs for the opening of negotiations, assur
ing this Government that the President,
Congress and people of the Confederate
States earnestly desire a peaceful solution
of these great questions, atid that it is neith
er their interest nor their wish to make any
demand which is not founded in strictest
justice, nor to do any act to injure their
late confederates.
After making these statements, Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford close their communi
cation, as they say, in obedience to the in
structions of their Government, by request
ing the Secretary of State to appoint as early
a day as possible, in order that the)’ may
present to the President of the United States
the credentials which they bear and the ob
jects of the mission with which they are
charged.
The Secretary of State frankly confesses
that he understands the events which have
recently occurred, and the condition of po
litical affairs which actually exists in the
part of the Union to which his attention has
thus been directed, very differently from the
aspect in which they are presented by
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford. He sees in
them, not a rightful and accomplished revo
lution and an independent nation with an es
tablished governniOLt, but rather a perver
sion of a temporary and partizan excitement
to the inconsiderate purposes of an unjusti
fiable and unconstitutional aggression upon
the rights and authority vested iu the Fed
eral Government, and hitherto benignly
exorcised, as from tlieir very nature they
always must be so exercised, for the main
tenance of the Union, the preservation of
liberty, and the security, peace, welfare,
happiness and aggrandizement of the Amer
ican people. The Secretary of State, there
fore, avows to Messrs Forsyth and Crawford
that he looks patiently but confidently for
the core of evils which have resulted from
proceedings so unnecessary, so unwise, so un
usual, and so unnatural, not to say irregular
negotiations, having iu view new’and untried
relations with agencies unknown to and act
ing in derogation of the Constitution and
laws, but to regular and considerate action!
of the people quho§o States in
with tlieir brethren in tbe other States,
through the Congress of the United States,
and such extraordinary Conventions, if there
shall be need thereof, as the Federal Consti
tution contemplates and authorizes to be
assembled
It is, however, the purpose of the Secre
tary of State on this occasion riot to invite
or engage in any discussion of these sub
jects, but simply to set forth bis reasons for
declining to comply with the request of
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.
On the 4th ot March inst, the then new
ly elected President of the United States,
in view of all the facts bearing on the ques
tion, assumed the executive administration
of the government, first delivering, in accord
ance with an early aud honored custom, an
inaugural address to the people of the Unit
ed States. The Secretary of State respect
fully submits a copy of this address to
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford.
A simple reference to it will he sufficient
to satisfy those gentlemen that the Secreta
ry of State, guided by the principles therein
announced, is prevented altogether from
admitting or assuming that the States refer
red to by them have, in law or in fact, with
drawn from the Federal Union, or that they
could do so in the manner described bv
Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, or in any
other manner than with the consent and con
cert of the people of the United States, to
be given through a National Convention to
be assembled in conformity with the provis
ions of the Constitution of the United States.
Os course the Secretary of State cannot act
upon the assumption or in any way admit
that the- so-called Confederate States consti
tute a foreign power, with whom diplomatic
relations ought to be established.
Under these circumstances the Secretary
of State, whose official duties are confine!,
subject to the direction of the President, to
the conducting of the foreign relations of
the country, and do not at all embrace do
mestic questions, or questions arising be
tween the several States and the Federal
Government, is unable to comply with the
request of Messrs. Forsyth and Crawford, to
appoint a day on which they may present
the evidences of their authority and the ob
jeets of tlieir visits to the IVesidont of the
United States. On the contrary, lie is ob
liged to state to Messrs. Forsyth and Craw
ford that he has no authority, nor is he at
liberty to recognize them as diplomatic
agents, or hold correspondence or other com
munication with them.
Finally, tho Secretary of State would ob
serve that although he lias supposed that he
might safely, and with propriety have adopt
ed those conclusions without making any
reference of the subject to the Executive,
yet so strong has been his desire to practice
entire directness and to act in a spirit of
perfect respect and candor toward Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford, and that portion of
the Union in whose name they present
themselves before him, that he has cheer
fully submitted this paper to the President
who coincides generally in the view it ex
presses, and sanctions the Secretary’s decis
ion declining official intercourse with Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford.
April 8, 1861.
The foregoing memorandum was filed in
this Department on the loth of March last.
A delivery of the same, however, te Messrs.
Forsyth and Crawford was delayed, as was
understood, w’ith their eonsent. They have
now, through their Secretary, communicated
their desire fora definitive disposition of the
subject. The Secretary of State therefore
directs that a duly verified copy of the paper
be now delivered.
A true copy of the original, delivered to
me by Mr. F. W, Seward, Assistant Secre
tary of State of the United States, ou April
8, ISGI, at 2.15 P. M., in blank envelope.
Attest, J. T. PICKETT,
Secy, to the Commissioners.
The Commissioners in reply to Mr. Seward,
accusing the Government of Deception,
and accepting a solution by the Sword.
Washington, April 0, 1801.
lion. Wm. 11. Sacard , Secretary of State
of the United Spates, Washington :—The
“memorandum,” dated Department of State,
Washington, March 15, 1861, with post
script under date of Bfcli inst, has been re
ceived through the hands of Mr. J. T. Pick
ett, Secretary to this Commission, who bv
the instructions of the undersigned, called
for it on yesterday at the Department.
In that memorandum you correctly state
the purport of the official note addressed to
you by the undersigned on the 12th ult.—
Without repeating the contents of the note
in full, it is enough to say here that its ob
ject was to invite the Government of the
United States to a friendly consideration of
the relations between the United States aud
the seven States lately of the Federal Union,
but now separated from it by the sovereign
will of their people, growing out of the preg
nant and undeniable fact that those people
have rejected the authority of the United
States, and established a Government of
their own. These relations had to be friend
ly or hostile. The people of the old and
new Governments, occupying contiguous ter
ritories, had to stand to each other in the re
lation of good neighbors, each seeking their
happiness and pursuing their national desti
nies in their own way, without interference
with the other, or they had to be rival and
hostile nations. The Government of the
Confederate States bad no hesitation in
electing its choice iu this alternative.—
Frankly and unreservedly seekiug the good
of the people who had entrusted them with
power, in the spirit of humanity, of the
Christian civilization of the age, and of that
Americanism which regards the true welfare
and happiness of the people, the Govern
ment of the Confederate States, among its
first acts commissioned the undersigned to
approach the Government of the l nited
States with the olive branch of peaee, and
to offer to adjust the questions pending be
tween them in the only way to be justified
by the consciences and common sense of
good men who had nothing but the welfare
of the people of the two Confederacies at
heart.
Your Government has not chosen to meet
the undersigued iu the conciliatory and
peaceful spirit in which they are commis
sioned. Persistently wedded to those fatal
theories of construction of the Federal Con
stitution always rejected by the statesmen of
the South, and adhered to by those of the
Administration school, until they have pro
duced their natural and often predicted re
sult of the destruction of the Union, under
which we might have continued to live hap
pily and gloriously together had tho spirit
ofths Aficestry who frrnul tte wrao%
VOLUME XXXIX—NO. (i.
nstitution animated the hearts of all their
n 3 n u now, with a persistence untaught
Jn ; 11r “ lir cd by the ruiu which has been
■vi.nig i u- as* to recognize the great fact
pus-nr.. o you ot a completed and sudeess
rul revolution; yon close your eyes to the
existence of tne Go yernmeut fannied m>on
it, and ignore the high duties of moderation
and humanity which attach to you in deal
ing with this great fact. Had you met
these issues with the frankness and manli
ness with which the undersigned were in
structed to present them to you and treat
j them, the undersigned had not now the mel
ancholy duty to return home and tell their
Govern meat and their country men that their
earnest and cease legs elhuts in behalf <i’
f>eace have been futile, and that the Gov
ernment of the United States meant to sub
jugate them by force of arms.
V* hateyer may be the result, impartial
history will record the innocence of the gov
ernment. of the Confederate States, and pTaee
the responsibility of the blood and mourn
ing that may ensue upon those who have
denied the great fundamental doctrine of
American liberty, that, “governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed,” and who have set naval and
laud armaments in motion to subject the
people of one portion of this land to the
will of another portion. That that can nev
er bo done while a freeman survives in the
Confederate States to wield a weapon, the
undersigned appeal to past history to piove.
These military demonstrations against the
people of the seceded States arc certainly
tar from being in keeping and consistency
with the theory of the Secretary of State,
maintained in his memorandum, that these
States are still component parts of the late
American 1 nion, as the undersigned are not
jaware of any constitutional power in the
President of the United States to levy war,
without the consent of Congress, upon a
foreign people, much less upon any portion
of the people of the United States/
The undersigned, Hke the Secretary of
have no purpose to *‘jn vito or engage
j discussion ’of the subject on which their
l two governments arc so irreconciia)>ly at
name. It is this variance that has broken
up the ohl Union, the disintegration of
which has only begun. It is proper, how*
ever, to advise you that it were well to dis
miss the hopes you seem to entertain that
by any of the modes indicated, the people
ot the Confederate States will ever be
brought to submit to the authority of the
government of the Cnited States. You are
dealing with delusions, too, when you seek
to separate our people from our government,
and to charactize the deliberate, sovereign
act of that people as a “perversion of a tem
porary and partizan excitement. 1 ’ Ts you
cherish these dreams you will be awakened
from them and find them as unreal and un
substantial as others in which you have re
cently indulged. The undersigned would
omit the performance of art oviousduty were
we to fail to make known to the government
of the United States that, the people of the
Confederate States have declared their inde
pendence with a full knowledge of all the
responsibilities of that, act, and with as firm
a determination to maintain it by all the
means with which nature has endowed them
as that which sustained their fathers when
they threw off the authority of the British
crown.
The undersigned clearly understand that
you have declined to appoint a day to ena
ble them to lav the objects of the mission
with which they are charged before the Pres
ident of the United States, because so to do
would be to recognize the independence and
separate nationality of the Confederate States.
This is the vein of thought that pervades
the memorandum before us. The truth of
history requires that it should distinctly ap
pear upon the record that the undersigned
did not ask the government of the United
States to recognise the independence of the
Confederate States. They only ask audi
ence to adjust, in a spirit of amity and
jHjaee, the new relations, springing from a
manifest and accomplished revolution in the
government of the late Federal Union.—
Your refusal to entertain these overtures for
a peaceful solution, the active naval and
military preparations of this government,
ami a formal notice to the commanding gen
eral of the Confederate forces in the harbor
of Charleston that the President intends to
provision Fort Sumter by forcible means, if
necessary, are viewed by the undersigned,
and can only be received by the world as a
declaration of war against the Confederate
States; for the President of the United
States knows that Fort Sumter cannot be
provisioned without the effusion of blood.—
The uadersigued iu behalf of their govern
ment and people, accept the gage of battle
thus thrown down to them; and, appealing
to (Jod and the judgment of mankind for
the righteousness of their cause, the people
of the Confederate States will defend their
liberties to the last against this flagrant and
open attempt at their subjugation to sec
tional power.
The communication cannot be properly
closed without adverting to the date of your
memorandum. The official note of the un
dersigned, of the 12th March, was delivered
to the Assistant Secretary of State on the
13th of that month, the gentleman who de
livered it informing him that the Secretary
>f this Commission would call at 12 o’clock,
noon, on the next day, for an answer. At
the appointed hour Mr. Pickett did call, and
was iuformed by the Assistant Secretary of
State that the engagements of the Secretary
of State had prevented him from giving the
note bis attention. The Assistant Secretary
if State then asked for the address of Messrs.
Crawford and Forsyth, the members of the
Commission then present in this city, took
note of the address on a card, and engaged
to send whatever reply might, be made, to
their lodgings. Why this w T as not done it
is proper should be here explained. The
memorandum is dated March 1% and was
not delivered until April 8. Mby was it
withheld during the intervening twenty
three days? In the postscript of your
memorandum, you say it was delivered, as
was understood, with the:r (Messrs. Forsyth
and Crawford’s) consent.
This is true ; but it is also true that on
the loth of March Messrs. Forsyth and
Crawford were assured by a person occupy
ing a high official position in the govern
ment, and who, as they believed, was speak
ing by authority, that Fort Sumter would
be evacuated within a very few days, and
that no measure changing the existing status
prejudicially to the Confederate States, as
respects Fort Pickens was then contemplat
ed, and these assurances were subsequently
rotated, with th* wj