11)? Lancaster 3ntdUgcn?a: VOL. LXIII. THE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER. 3LISESD V7CBT TURBDAT, AT NO. 8 NORTH DUU STRUT, 3Y GKO. SANDERSON. TERMS fitTBSGRIPTION.—Two Dollars per annum, payable in ad vance. No subscription diccontjoaed until all arrear • ages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Advrrtisimints.—Advertisements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of greater length in proportion. Job Printing—Such as Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, Ac., Ac., exocuted with accuracy and od the shortest notice. IMPORTANT LETTERS. Gen. Scott’s Views on the Re- bellion. SOUTHERN FORTS—A SUMMARY, &C. October 30, 1860,1 emphatically called the attention of the President to the ne cessity of strong garrisons in all the forts below the principal commercial cities of the Southern States, includiug, by name, the forts in Pensacola harbor. October 31, 1 suggested to the Secretary of War that a circular should be sent at onee to suoh of those forts as had garrisons to be on the alert against surprises and sudden assaults. my “ Views,” since printed.) After a long confinement to my bed in New York, 1 came to this city (Washing ton) December 12. Next day I personally urged upon the Secretary of War the same views, viz : strong garrisons in the South ern forts —those of Charleston and Pensa cola harbors, at onee ; those on Mobile Bay and the Mississippi, below New Or leans, next, &0., &o. 1 again pointed out the organized companies and the recruits at the prinoipal depots available for the purpose. The Secretary did not concur in any of my views, when 1 begged him to procure for me an early interview with the President, that 1 might make one effort more to save the forts and the Union. By appointment the Secretary accom panied me to the President, Deoember 15, when the same topics, Seoessionism, &c., were again pretty fully discussed. There being at the moment (in the opinion of the President) no danger of an early Secession, beyond South Carolina, the President, in reply to my arguments lor immediately reinforcing Eon Sumter, said : “The lime has not arrived for doing so ; that ho should wait the action of the Convention of South Carolina, in the expectation that a Commission would be appointed and sent to negotiate with him and Congress respecting the Secession of the State, and the property of the United States held within its limits; and that if Congress should decide against the Secession, then he would send a reinforcement, and telegraph the commanding officer (Major Auder son) of Fort Moultrie to hold the Forts (Moultrie and Sumter) against attack.” And the Secretary, with animation, ad ded ; “ We have a vessel of war (the Brooklyn) held in readiness at Norfolk, and he would theu send three hundred men in her from Fort Monroe to Charles ton.” To which .1 replied, first, that so many men could not be withdrawn from that garrison, but oould be taken from New York. Next, that it would then be too late, as the South Carolina Commissioners would then have the game in their hands, by first using and then cutting the wires ; that as there was not a soldier in Port Sum ter,any handful of armed Secession ists might seize and occupy it, &c. Here the remark may be permitted, that if the Secretary’s 3UO men had then, or some time later, been sent to Ports Moultrie and Sumter, both would now have been in the possession of the United States, and not a battery below them could have been erected by the Secessionists ; consequently the access to those forts from the sea would now (the eud of March), be unobstructed and free. The same day, Deoember 15, I wrote the following note : “Lieut. Gen. Scott begs the President to pardon him for supplying, in this note, what he omitted to Bay this morning at the interview with which he was honored by the President. “Long prior to the force bill (March 2, 1833,) prior to the issue of his proclamation, and in part prior to the passage of the ordinance of nullifica tion, President Jackson, under the act of March 3, 1807, ‘ authorizing the employment of the land and naval forces,’ caused reinforcements to be sent to Fort Moultrie, and a sloop-of-war, the Natchez with two revenue cutters, to be sent to Charleston harbor, in order 1, to prevent the seizure of that fort by the nullifiers, and 2, to enforoe the execution of the revenue laws. Gen. Scott himself arrived at Charleston the day after the passage of the ordi nance of nullification, and many of the additional companies were then en route for the same destina tion. “President Jackson familiarly said at the time, *that by the assemblage of those forces, for the law mi purposes, he was not making war upon South Carolina; but that if South Carolina attacked them, it would be South Carolina that made war upon the United States.’ “ Gen. S., who received his first instructions (oral) from the President, in the temporary absence of the Seoretary of War, (Gen. Caas,) remembers those ex pressions well. “ Saturday Night, Deoember 15, 1860.” Deo. 28.—Again, after Major Ander son had gallantly and wisely thrown his handful of men from Fort Moultrie into Fort Sumter—learning that, on demand of South Carolina, there was great danger he might be ordered by the Secretary back to the less tenable work, or out of the har bor—l write this note : “Lieut.-Gen. Scott (who has had a bad night and , Camp Lay, aboM Jan. 12, of the Presi o^rt < i» r ?h ly h hold t U ?i, hl u hea ' i this mornin s) b eg s to ’ dent’s reply to a message from me.) Next express the hope to the Secretary of War. 1 That -. /L j l orders may not be given for the evacuation of Fort 11 WaS aou u ,;e O Whether It would be safe Sumter. 2. That,lso recruits may instantly be sent to send re-enforcements in an unarmed trom Governor s island to re-enforce that jrarrisnn . j.> . , r with ample supplies of ammunition and subsistence’ i steamer > and the want, as usual, of a suit including fresh vegetables, as potatoes, onions’ able naval vessel—the Brooklyn being sent tt) B s’upport^the^saiVfort 01 tW ° V ° 33el3 be 1 loD g held in reserve at Norfolk for some “Lieut.-Gen. S. avails himself of this opportunity | P ar POSC unknown to me. Finally, after I a body of 301.) recruits in New pooling Forts Jackson, St. Philip, Morgan and Pu-i JLOru Wart, or ready tor some time — and particularly in respect to Forts Pickens "they would have been sufficient to re-en ana MacKea and the Pensacola Naw Yard ; n Mn. ' f nr . n ~ *_ . neotion with the last two named works may be re- ' orCe temporarily Fort Pickens and to OC considered by the Secretary. ’ | cupy Fort Mcllae also—the President “Lieut-tien. S. will further ask the attention ofthe ; about Jan IIS nermrnnd tW fk A Secretary to Forts Jefferson and Taylor, which are “t> w ’ th at the sloop-of wholly national —being of far greater value even to i " a " -DrooKiyn should have a single com the most distant points of the Atlantic coast and the i pany, 90 men, from Foit Mnnrnp Hamn people on the upper waters.of the Missouri, Missis- | ton nnd ™ yiyurue, namp sippi, and Ohio Kivers chan to the State of Florida. 1 . on J^ oad ®» aQ d re-eotorce Lieut, feiemmer There is only a feeble company at Key West for the m -^ ort Pickens, but without a surnlus defense of Fort Taylor, and not a soldier in Fort \ man fer the neighboring fort Mnßoa Jeffereon to resist a handful of fillibusters or a row- T , u B “ el ß no ? rln g tort, Mcliae. boat of pirates; and the Oulf, soon after the begin* i -Brooklyn, with Capt. Vodges* com ning of Secession or revolutionary troubles in the pany alone, left the Chesapeake for Fort adjacent States, will swarm with such nuisances.” p io k enS about lanuarv •>)7„Y December 30.—1 addressed the Presi- »o t k p„.iJ P „t R,„.b ““t at ? d ’ 0n l^e dent again, as follows ■ ' ; r 9th ’ Presldent Buchanan, having entered . 7#l u . • mto a quasi armistice with certain leading Statute pardon* tfmirregularity 6 o*f thi^ommunio I seci ; ders at Pensacola and elsewhere, caus tion. It is Sunday, the weather is bad, and Gen s j ed Secretaries Holt and Toney to instruct importance; 1 7“’ *7“*™ seem to forbid a moment’s delay, and. if misled by ' veSsels on Pensacola, and Lieut. Slemmer, ZO “Wm h th P e e p^m ho . Pre3id - Dt ! 3for l iven ® s t commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no Will the President permit (ren. b.. without re- a ,.t u t -i* 4 j / , , ference to the War Department, and otherwise as: 0t “Ostility, and not to land Captain seoretiy as possible, to send 250 recruits from New | » odges’ company unless that fort should York harbor to reintorce Fort Sumter, together with j be attacked t some extra muskets or rifles, ammunition, and sub- I sistenoe? ' “It is to be hoped that a sloop.of-war and outter may be ordered for the same purpose as earlv as to morrow. J “Gen. S. will wait upon the President at any moment he may be oalled for. J The South Carolina Commissioners had already been many days m Washington, and no movements of defense <on the part of the United States) was permitted. I will here olose my notice of Fort Sum ter by quoting from some of my previous reports. It would have been easy to re-enforee this fort down to about the I2th of Febru ary. In this long delay Fort Moultrie had been re-armed and greatly strengthened in every way by the Rebels. Many pow erful new land batteries (besides a formi dable raft) had been constructed. Hulks, too, had been sunk in the principal channel so as to render access to Fort Sumter from the sea impracticable without first carrying all the lower batteries of the Secessionists. The difficulty of re-enforcing had thus been increased ten or twelve fold. First, the late President refused to allow any attempt to be made because he was holding nego tiations with tbe South Carolina Commis- Afterward Seoretary Holt and myself endeavored, in vain, to obtain a Bhip of war for the purpose, and were finally obliged to employ the passenger steamer “ Star of; the West.” That vessel, but for the hes itation of the master, might, as is gener ally believed, have delivered at the fort the men and subsistence on board. This at tempt at suooor failing, 1 next, verbally, submitted to the late Cabinet either that succor be sent by ships-of-war, fighting their way by the batteries (increasing in strength daily,) or that Major Anderson should be left to ameliorate his condition by the muzzles of his guns;—that is, enforc ing supplies by bombardment and by bring ing to merchant vessels, helping himself (giving orders for payment,) or, finally, be allowed to evacuate the fort, which, in that ease, would be inevitable. But before any resolution was taken,the late Secretary of the Navy making diffi culties about the want of suitable war ves sels, another Commissioner from South Carolina arrived, causing further delay.— When this had passed away Secretaries Holt and Touey, Capt. Ward of the Navy, and myself—with the knowledge of the President (Buchanan) —settled upon the employment, under the Captain (who was eager for the expedition) of three or four small steameis belonging to the Coast Survey. At that time (late in January) 1 have but little doubt Capt. Ward would have reached Fort Sumter, with all his vessels. But he was kept back by some thing like a truce or armistice [made here], embracing Charleston and Pensacola har bors, agreed upon between the late Presi dent and certain principal scoeders of South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, &0., and this truce lasted to the end of that Administration. That plan and all others, without a squadron of war ships and a considerable army—competent to take and hold the many formidable batteries below Fort Sum ter, aud before the exhaustion of its sub sistence—having been pronounced, from the change of circumstances, impractica ble by Major Anderson, Captain Foster (Chief Engineer,) and all the other officers of the fort, as well as by Brig. G-eneral Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engineers ; and, concurring in that opinion, I did not hesitate to advise (March 12) that Major Anderson be instructed to evacuate the fort, so long gallantly held by him and his companions, and immediately on pro curing suitable transportation to take them to New York. His relative weakness had steadily increased in the last eighteen days. It was not till Jan. 3 (when the first Commissioners from South Carolina with drew) that the permission I had solicited Oct. 13, was obtained to admonish com manders of the few Southern forts with garrisons to be on the alert against sur prises and suddeQ assaults. (Maj. An derson was not among the admonished, being already straitly beleaguered.) January 3.—To Lieut. Slemmer, com manding in Pensacola Harbor : “ The General-in-Chief directs that you take measures to do the utmost in your power to prevent the seizure of either of the forts in Pensacola Har bor, by surprise or assault, consulting first with the Commander of the Navy Yard, who will probably have received instructions to co-operate with you.” (This order was signed by Aid-de-Camp Lay.) It was just before the surrender of the Pensacola Navy Yard ( Jan. 12) that Lieut. Slemmer, calling upon Com. Armstrong, obtained the aid of some 30 common sea men or laborers, but no marines, which added to his 46 soldiers, made up his numbers to 76 men, with whom this meri torious officer has since held Fort Pickens. and performed, working night and day, an immense amount of labor in mounting guns, keeping up a strong guard, &c., &o. Early in January 1 renewed, as has been seen, my solicitations to be allowed to reinforce Fort Pickens, but a good deal of time was lost in vacillations. First, the President u thought if no movement is made by the United States, Fort Mcßae will probably not be occupied nor Fort Pickens attacked. In case of movements by the United States, which will doubtless be made known by the wires, there will be corresponding local movements, and the attempt to re-enforce will be useless.’'' (Quotation from a note made by Aid-de- [That joint note I never saw until March 25, but in!, p 6 arm i=tico wasconsequent upon the meet* mSerßtnnH . eaC ,° Go ?™ n t'on at Washington, and was understood to terminate with it.j Hearing, however, of the most active preparations for hostilities on the part of the seceders at Pensa'oola, by the erection of new batteries and arming Fort Moßea —that had not a gun mounted when it was seized—during the Peace Convention and since, I brought the subject to the notioe of the new administration, when this note dated March 12, to Capt. Vodges was’ “ THAT OOUNTBT IS THE HOST PROSPEROUS WHIRR LABOR COMMANDS THI GREATEST REWARD/ '- LANCASTER CITY. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, NOYEMBER 11. 1862. agreed upon, viz ; « At the first favorable moment you will land with yonr company, reinforce Fort Pickens, and hold the same till further orders/ 5 This order, in dupli cate, left New York by two naval vessels about the middle of March, as the mails and the wires could not be trusted, and detached officers could not be substituted, for two had already been arrested and par oled by the authorities of Pensacola, dis patches taken from one of them, and a third, to escape like treatment, forecd to turn back when near that city. Thus those authorities have not ceased to make war upon the United State since the capture by them of the Navy Yard, January 12. Respectfully submitted. WINFIELD SCOTT. Headquarters of the Army, Washington, March 30, 1861. ME. BUCHANAN’S EEPLT. To the Editors of the National Intelligencer : On "Wednesday last I received the National Intelligencer containing Gen Scott’s address to the public. This is throughout an undisguised censure of my conduct during the last months of the Administration in regard to the seven Cotton States now in rebellion. From our past relations I was greatly surprised at the appear ance of such a paper. In one aspect, how ever, it was highly gratifying. It has justi fied me; nay, it has rendered it absolutely necessary that I should no longer remain si lent in respect to charges which, have been long vaguely circulating, but are now endor sed by the responsible name of Gen. Scott. 1. The first and most prominent among these charges is my refusal immediately to garrison nine enumerated fortifications, scat tered over six of the Southern States, accord ing to the recommendation of Gen. Scott, in his “views” addressed to the War Department on the 29th and 30th of October, 1860. And it has even been alleged that if this had been done it might have prevented the civil war. This refusal is attributed without the least cause to the influence of Governor Floyd. All my Cabinet must bear me witness that I was, the President myself, responsible for all the acts of the Administration ; and certain it is that during the last six months previous to the 29th of December, 1800, (the day on which he resigned his office after my request,) he exercised less influence on the Administration titan any other member of the Cabinet. Mr. Holt was immediately thereafter transferred from the Post Office Department to that of War; so that from this time until the 4th of March, 1861, which was by far the most im portant period of the Administration, he per formed the duties of Secretary of War to my entire satisfaction. But why did I not immediately garrson 'these nine fortifications, in such a manner, to use the language of Gen. Scott, “as to make any attempt to take any one of them by surprise or coup-de-main ridiculous ?” There is one answer, both easy and conclusive, even if oilier valid reasons did not exist. There were no available troops within reach which could be seut to these fortifications. To have attempted a military operation on a scale so extensive by any means within the President’s power would have been simply absurd. Of this l»en. Scott himself seems to have been convinced, for on the day after the date of his first “ views,” he addressed (on the 30th October) supplemental views to the War De partment, in which he states : “ There is one ( regular ) company in Boston , one here, (at the Narrows), one at Pittsburg, one at Augusta, ( G-a,.,) one at Baton Rouge”—in all fioe com panies only within reach to garrison or reinforce the forts mentioned in the “ views.'' Five companies—four hundred men—to oc cupy and reinforce nine fortifications in six highly excited Southern States! The force “within reach” was so entirely inadequate that nothing more need be said on the subject.— To have attempted such a-military operation with so feeble a force, and the Presidential election impending, would have been an in vitation to collision and sesession. Indeed, if the whole American army, consisting then of only sixteen thousand men, had been “ witbin reach.” they would have been scarcely suffi cient for this purpose. Such was ouY want of troops that, although Gen. Scott, believing, in opposition to the opinion of the committee raised in the House of Representative, that the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln might be interrupted by military force, was only able to assemble at Washington, so late as the 4th March, six hundred and fifty-three men, rank and file of the array.. And, to make up this army, even the Sappers and Miners were brought from West Point. But why was there no greater force within reach ? This question could be better an swered by General Scott himself than by any other person. Our small regular army, with the exception of a few hundred men, were out of reach, on our remote frontiers, whore it .had been continuously stationed for years, to protect the inhabitants and the emigrants on their way thither against the attacks of hos tile Indians. All were insufficient, and both General Seqjt and myself had endeavored in vain to prevail upon Congress to raise several additional regiments for this purpose In re commending this augmentation of the .army, tbe General states in his report to the War Department' of November, 1857, that “it would not more than furnish the reinforce ments now greatly needed in Florida, Texas New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington (T.) Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, leaving not a company for “ Utah.” And again, in bis report of November, 1858, he says: “ This want of troops to give reasonable securi ty to our citizens in distant settlements, including emigrants on the plains, can scarcely be too strong ly stated : but I will only add, that as often as we have been obliged to withdraw troops from one frontier in order to reinforce another, the weaken ed points have been instantly attacked or threat ened with formidable invasion.",. These “ views’* of General Scott exhibit the crude notions then prevailing even among in telligent and patriotic men on this subject of secession. In the first sentence the General whilst stating that “ to save time the right of secession may be conceded,” yet immediately says, “ this is instantly balanced by the cor relative right on the part of the Federal Gov ernment against an interior State or States to re-establish by force, if necessary, its former continuity of territory.” (For this he cites “ Paley’s Moral and Political Philosophy, last chapter.” It may be there, but I have been unable to find it.) Whilst it is difficult to as certain his precise meaning in this passage, he renders what he did not mean quite clear in his supplementary “views." In these he says : “ It will be seen that the “ views” only apply to a case of secession that makes a gap iu the present Union.” The falling off say of Texas, or of all the Atlantic States, from the Potomac south, (the very case which has occurred) was not withiu the scope of Gen. S.'s “provisional remedies;” that is to say, to establish by force, if neces sary, the continuity of our territory. In Mb “viaws” he also states as follows: “But break this glorious Union by whatever line or lines that political madness may contrive, and there would be no hope of recruiting the fragments except by the laceration and despotism of the sword. To effect such result the intestine wars of our Mexican neighbors would, in com parison with ours, sink into mere child’s play.” In the General’s opinion, “a smaller evil (than these intestine wars) would be to allow the fragments of the great Republic to form them selves into new Confederacies, probably four.” He then points out what ought to be the boundaries between the new Unions; and at the end of each, goes so far as even to indi cate the cities which ought to be the capitals of the three first on this side of the Rooky Mountains, to wit: “Columbia, South Caroli na,” “AltoD, or Quincy, 111,” and “Albany, New York,” excluding Washington City alto gether. This indication of capitals contained in the original, now in my possession, is cu riously omitted in the verson published in the Rational Intelligencer. He designates no cap ital for the fourth Union on the Pacifio. The reader will judge what encouragement these views, proceeding from so distinguished a source, must have afforded to the Secession ists of the Cotton States. I trust I have said enough, and more than enough, to convince every mind why I did not, with a force of five companies, attempt to reinforce Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi; Fort Morgan, below Mobile; Forts Pickens and McEae, in Pensacola har bor; Fort Pulaski, below Savannah; Forts Moultrie and Sumter, Charleston harbor, and Fort Monroe, in Virginia. These “views,” both original and supple mentary, were published by General Scott in the National Intelligencer of January 18, 1861, at the most important and critical period of the Administration. Their publication at that time could do no possible good, and might do much harm. To have published them without the President’s knowledge and consent was as much in violation of the sacred confidence which ought to prevail between the Command ing General of the army and the Commander in-Chief, as it would have been for the Secre tary of War to publish the same documents without his authority. What is of more im portance, their publication was calculated in juriously to affect the compromise measures then pending before Congress and the coun try, and to encourage the Secessionists in their mad and wicked attempt to shatter the Union into fragments. From tbe great respect which I then entertained for the General, I passed it over in silence. It is worthy of remark, that soon after the Presidential elections representations of what these “views” contained, of more or less cor rectness, were unfortunately circulated, espec ially throughout the South. The editors of the National Intelligencer , in assigning a rea son for their publication, state that both in public prints and public speeches allusions had been made to them, and some misapprehension of their character had got abroad. 11. and 111. General Scott states that he ar rived in Washington on the 12th, and accom panied by the Secretary of War, had a con versation with the President on the 15th of December. Whilst I have no recollection whatever of this conversation, he doubtless states correctly that I did refuse to send three hundred men to reinforce Major Anderson a£ Fort Moultrie, who had not then removed to Fort Sumpter. The reason far this refusal is manifest to all who recollect the history of the time. But twelve days before, in the annual message of the 8d of December, I had urged upon Congress the adoption of amendments to the Constitution of the same character with those subsequently proposed by Mr. Critten den, called the “Crittendon Compromise.” At that time high hopes were entertained through out the country that these would be adopted. Besides, I believed, and this oorrectly, as the event proved, that Major Anderson was then in no danger of attack. Indeed, he and his command were then treated with marked kindness by the authorities and people of Charleston. Under these circumstances, to have sent such a force there would have been only to impair the hope of compromise, to pro voke collision, and to disappoint the country. There are some details of this conversation in regard to which the General’s memory must be defective. At present I shall specify only one. 1 could not have stated that on a future contingent occasion 1 would telegraph “Major Anderson, of Fort Moultrie, to hold the forts (Moultrie and Sumpter) against attack be cause, with prudent precaution, this had al ready been dose several days before through a special messenger sent to Major Anderson for this very purpose. I refer to Major Buell, of the army. The General’s supplementary note of the same day presenting to me Gen. Jackson’s con duct in 1833, during the period of nullification as an example, requires no special notice. Even if the cases were not entirely different, I had previously determined upon a policy of myown, as will appear from my annual mes sage. This was, at every hazard, to collect the customs of Charleston, and outside of the port, if need be, in a vessel-of-war. Mr. Colcock, the existing collector, as I had anticipated, resigned his office about the end of December, and immediately thereafter,! nominated to the Senate, as his successor, a suitable person pre pared at any personal risk to do his duty. That body, however, throughout its entire ses sion, declined to act on this nomination. Thus without a Collector, it was rendered impossi ble to collect the revenue. IV. Gen. Scott’s statement alleges that “the Brooklyn, with Capt. Vogdes’ company alone, left the Chesapeake for Fort Pickens about January 22d, and on the 29th President Buch anan, having entered into a quasi armistice with certain leading secedersat Pensacola and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Holt and Toucey to instruct in a joint note the commander of the war vessels off Pensacola, and Lieut. Slem mer, commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no act of hpstillity, and not to land Capt. Vogdes’ company unless the fort should be attacked.” He afterwards states, within brackets, “That joint note I never saw, but supposed the arm istice was consequent upon the meetings of the Peace Convention at Washington, and was un derstood to terminate with it.” These statements betray a singular want of memory on the pari of Gen. Scott. It is scare ly credible that this very joint note, presented in such odious colors, was submitted to Gen. Scott on the day it was prepared, (29th Janu ary,) and met his entire approbation. I would not venture to make this assertion if I did not possess conclusive evidence to prove it. On that day Secretary Holt addressed me a note, from which the following is an extract: “7 have the satisjaction oj saying thai on submitting the paper to Gen. Scott he expressed himselj satigfied with it , saying that there could be no objection to the arrangement in a military point of view or otherwise .” This requires no com ment. That the General had every reason to be satisfied with the arrangement will appear from the following statement: A revolutionary outbreak bad occurred in Florida ; the troops of the United .States had been expelled from Pensacola and the adjacent Navy Yard; and Lieut. Slemmer, of the ar tillery, with his brave little command, had been forced to take refuge in Fort Pickens, where he was in imminent danger every mo ment of being captured by a vastly superior force. Owing to the interruption of regular communications, Secretary Holt did not re ceive information of these events until several days after their occurrence, and then through a letter addressed to a third person. He in stantly informed the President of the fact, and reinforcements, provisions and military stores were dispatched by the Brooklyn to Fort Pick ens without a moment’s unnecessary delay.— She left Fortress Monroe on the 24th of Jan uary. Well-founded apprehensions were, however, entertained at the time of her departure that the reinforcements, with the vessela*of war at no great distance from Port Pickens, could not arrive in time to defend it against the im pending attack. In this state of suspense, and whilst Lieutenant Slemmer was in ex treme peril, Senators Slidell, Hunter and Big ler, received a telegraphic dispatch from Sen ator Mallory, of Florida, dated at Pensacola, on the 28th January, with the urgent request that they should lay it before the President.— This dispatch expressed an earnest desire to maintain the peace, as well as the most posi tive assurance that no attack would be made on Fort Pickens if the present status should e preserved This proposal wasoarefully considered, both with a view to the safety of the fort and to the unhappy effect whi<jh an actual collision ei ther at that or any other point might produce on the Peace Convention, then about to assem ble at Washington. The result was that a joint dispatch was carefully prepared by the Secretaries of War and Navy, accepting the proposal, with important modifications, which was transmitted by telegraph on the 29th January to Lieutenant Slemmer and to the naval cummanders near the station. It is too long for transcription ; suffice it to say, it was carefully guarded at every point for the secu rity of the fort and its free communication with Washington. The result was highly fortunate. The Brooklyn had along passage. Although she left Fortress Monroe on the 24th January, she did not arrive at Pensacola until the 6th Februa ry. In, the meantime, ;Fort Pickens, with Lieutenant Slemmer (whose conduct deserves high oommendation) and his brave little band, were placed, by virtue of this arrangement, in perfect security until an adequate force had arrived to defend it against any attack. The fort is still in our possession. Well might Gen. Scott have expressed his satisfaction with this arrangement. The General was correct in the supposition that this arrangement was to expire on the termination of the Peace Con vention. V. But we now come to an important period when dates will be essentially necessary to disentangle the statement of Gen. Scott. The South Carolina Commissioners were appointed on the 22d, and arrived in Washington on the 27th December. The day after their arrival it was announced that Major Anderson had re moved from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumpter.— This rendered them furious. On the same day they an angry letter to the President demanding the sarrender of Fort Sumpter. The President answered this letter on the 30th December by a peremptory refusal. This brought forth a reply from the Commissioners on the 2d January, 1861, of such an insulting character that the President instantly returned it to them with the following endorsement: “This paper, just presented to the President, is of such a character that he declines to re ceive it.” From that time forward all friend ly, political and personal intercourse finally ceaßed between the revolutionary Senators and the President, and he was severely attacked by them in the Senate, and especially by Mr. Jefferson Davis. Indeed, their intercourse had previously been of the coldest character ever since the President’s anti-Secession mes sage at the commencement of the session of Congress. Under these changed circumstances, Gene ral Scott, by note on Sunday, the 80th of De cember, addressed the following inquiry to the President : “Will the President permit General Scott, with out reference to the War Department, and other wise as secretly as possibly, to send two hundred and fifty recruits from New York harbor to rein force Fort Sumpter, together with some extra muskets or rifles, ammunition and subsistence ? It is hoped that a sloop of war and cutter may be or dered for the same purpose ‘to-morrow.’ ” The General seems not to have then known that Mr. Floyd was out of office. Never did a request meet a more prompt compliance. It was received on Sunday eve ning, December 30th. Qn Monday morning, I gave instructions to the War and Navy De partments, and on Monday evening; General Scott came to congratulate me that the Secre taries had issued the necessary orders to the army and navy officers, and that they were in his possession. The Brooklyn, with troops, military stores and provisions, was to sail forthwith from Fortress Monroe to Fort Sum ter, I am, therefore, utterly at a loss to im agine why the General, in his statement, should have asserted that “ the South Carolina Com missioners had already been many days in Washington, and no movement of defence (on the part of the United States) was permitted.” These Commissioners arrived in Washington on the 27th December; General Scott’s re quest was made to the President on the 30th. It was complied with on the 31st, and a single day is all that represents the “many days” of the General. Again, General Scott asserts, in the face of these facts, that the President refused to allow, any attempt to be made—to reinforce Fort Sumter—because he was holding negotiations with tbe South Carolina Commissioners. And still again, that “ afterwards Secretary Holt and myself endeavored in vain, to obtain a ship-of-war for the purpose, and were finally obliged to employ the passenger steamer ‘Star of the West.’” Will it be believed that the substitution of the “Star of the West” for the powerful war steamer Brooklyn, of which he now complains, was by the advice of General Scott himself ? I have never heard this doubt ed until I read the statement. At the interview already referred to between the General and myself, on the evening of Monday, the 31st of December, I suggested to him that, although I had not received the South Carolina Commissioners in their official capacity, but merely as private gentlemen, yet it might be considered an improper act to send the Brooklyn with reinforcements to Fort Sumter until I had received an answer from them to my letter of the preceding day ; that the delay could not continue more than forty eight hours. He promptly* concurred in this suggestion as gentlemanly and proper, and the orders were not transmitted to the Brook lyn on that evening. My anticipations were correct, for on the morning of the 2d of Jan uary I received their insolent note, and sent it back to them. In the meantime, however, the General had become convtnced, by the rep resentations of a gentleman whom I forbear to name, that the better plan, as the Secretaries of War and Navy informed me, to secure se creay and success and reach the fort, would be to send a fast side-wheel mercantile steam er from New York with the reinforcement.— Accordingly the “Star of the West” was se lected for this duty. The substitution of this mercantile steamer for the Brooklyn, which would have been able to defend herself in case of attack, was reluctantly yielded by me to the high military judgment of Gen. Scott. The change of programme required a brief space of time ; but the Star of the West, left New York for Charlestown on the evening of the sth January; On the very day, however, when this ill-fated steamer left New York, a telegram was dispatched by General Scott to Colonel Scott to countermand her departure ; but it did not reach its destination until after she had gone to sea. The reason for this countermand shall be stated in the language of Secretary Holt, to be found in a letter ad dressed by him to Mr? - Thompson, the late Secretary of the Interior, on the sth of March, 1861, and published in the National Intelligen cer. Mr. Holt says: “ The countermand spokea of (by Mr. Thomp son) was not more cordially sanctioned by the President than it was by General Scott and my self ; not because of any dissect from the order on the part of the President, but because of a letter received that day from Major Anderson, stating in effect, that be regarded himself secure in bis po sition ; and yet more from intelligence which late on Saturday evening (sth January, 1861) reached the Department, that a heavy battery had been erected among the sand bills, at the entrance of Charleston harbor, which would probably destroy any unarmed vessel (and such was the Star of the West,) which might attempt to make its way to Fort Sumter. This important information satis fied the Government that there was no present ne cessity for sending reinforcements, and that when sent they should go, not in a vessel of commerce, but of war. Hence the countermand was dis patched by telegraph to New York; but the ves sel had sailed a short time before it reached' the officer (Colonel Scott) to whom it was addressed." A statement of these facts, established by dates, proves conclusively that the President was not only willing but anxious in the brief est period to reinforce Fort Sumter. On the 4th of January, the day before the departure of the Star of the West from : New York, as General Scott in his statement admits, succor was sent to Fort Taylor, Key West, and to Fort Jefferson, Tongugas Island, which reached these points in time for their security. He nevertheless speculates on the consequen ces which might have followed had the rein forcements not reached their destination in due time; and even expresses the extraordi nary opinion that, with the possession of these forts “ the rebels might have purchased an qprly recognition.” I shall next advert to the statement that the expedition under Captain Ward, “of three or four small steamers belonging to the Coast Survey,” was kept back by something like a truce or armistice, [made here,] embra cing Charleston and Pensacola harbors agreed upon between the late President and certain principal Seceders of South Carolina, Florida, Louisans, &c. And this truce lasted toy-the end of the Administration.” Things alto gether distinct in their nature are often so blended in this statement that it is difficult to separate them. Such is eminently the case in connecting the facts relative to Charleston with Penßacola. Having already treated of the charge of having kept back reinforcements from Pen sacola, 1 shall now say something of-the charge of having &Ibo kept them back., from Charleston. Neither a trace, nor quasi truce, nor anything like it, was ever concluded between the President and any human au thority concerning Charleston. On the con trary, the South Carolina Commissioners, first and last, and all the time were informed that BUCHANAH. the President could never surrender Fort Sumter, nor deprive himself of the most en tire liberty to send reinforcements to it whenever it was believed to be in danger, or requested by Major Anderson. It is strange that Gen. Scott was not apprized of this well known fact. It was then, with some aston ment, that I learned from the statement of the General that he had, : on the 12th of March, 1861, advised that Major Anderson should be instructed to evacuate the fort as soon as suitable transportation could be procured to carry himself and his command to New York. A military necessity for a capitulation may have existed in case there should be an attack upon the fort, or a de mand for its surrender, but surely none such could have existed for its voluntary surrender and abandonment. Probably that to which the General means to refer was not the quasi, but the actual, truce of arms concluded at Charleston, on the 11th of January, 1861, between Governor Pickens and Major Anderson, without the knowledge of the President. It was on the 9th of January that the Star of the West, un der the American flag, was fired upon in the harbor of Charleston by order of Governor Pickens. Immediately after this outrage Ma jor Anderson sent a flag to the Governor sta ting that he presumed the act had been unau thorized, and for that reason he bad not open ed fire frem Fort Sumter on the adjacent bat teries ; but demanded its disavowal, and, if this were not sent in a reasonable time, he would consider it war, and fire on any vessel that attempted to leave the harbor. Two days after this occurrence, on the 11th January, Governor Pickens had the audacity to demand of Major Anderson the surrender of the fort. In his answer of the same date the Major made the following proposition: “Should your Excellency deem, fit, previous to a resort of arms, to refer this matter to Washington, it would afford me the sincerest pleasure to depute one of my officers to ac company any messenger you may deem proper to be the bearer of your demand.” This pro position was promptly accepted by the Gover nor, and, in pursuance thereof, he sent on his part Hon. J. W. Hayne,-the Attorney General of South Carolina, to Washington, whilst Ma jor Anderßon deputed Lieut. Hall, of the Uni ted States Army, to accompany him. These gentlemen arrived together in Washington on the evening of the 13th January, when the President obtained the first knowledge of the transaction. But it will be recollected that no time intervened between the return of the Star of the West to New York and the arrival of the messenger bearing a copy of the truce at Washington within which it would have been possible to send reinforcements to Fort Sumter. Both events occurred about the same time. Thus a truce, or suspension of arms, was concluded between the parties, to continue until the question of the surrender of the fort should be decided by the President. Until this decision Major Anderson had placed it ou: of his own power to ask for reinforcements, and equally out of the power of the Govern ment to Bend them without a violation of pub lic faith. This was what writers on public law denominate “a under which hostilliiies are suspended only in certain places, as between a town and the army be sieging it.” / * It is possible that the President, under the laws of war, might have annulled this truce upon due notice to the opposite party ; but neither Gen. Scott nor any other person ever suggested this expedient. This would have been to cast a reflection on Major Anderson, who beyond question, acted from the highest and purest motives. Did Gen. Scott ever pro pose to violate this truce during its existence ? If he did, I am not now, and never was, aware of the fact. Indeed, 1 think he would have been one of the last men in the world to pro pose such a measure. Col. Hayne did not deliver the letter which he bore from Governor Pickens, demanding the surrender of the fort, to the President un til the 31st-of January. The documents con taining the reasons for this worrying delay, were communicated to Congress in a special message of the Bth of Febuary, to which I refer the reader. On the sth of February, the Sec retary of War, under the instructions of the President, gave a peremptory refusal to this demand in an able and comprehensive letter, reviewing the whole subject, explaining and justifying the conduct of the President throughout. Its concluding sentence is both eloquent and emphatic: “ If, (says Mr. Holt,) with all the multiplied proofs which exist of the President’s anxiety for peace, and of the earnestness with which he has pursued it, thejauthorities of that State shall assault Fort Sumter and imperil the lives of the handful of brave and loyal men abut up within its walls and thus plunge our country into the horrors of civil war, then upon them and those they repre sent must rest the responsibility.” The truce was then ended, and General Scot is incorrect in stating “that it lasted to the end of that Administration.” An expedition was quietly fitted out at New York, under the supervision of General Scott, to be ready for any contingency. He arrang ed its details, and regarded the reinforcements thus provided for as sufficient. This was ready to sail for Fort Sumpter on five hours’ notice. It is of this expedition that Gen. Scott thus speaks : “At that time, when this (the truce) had passed away, Secretaries Holt and Toucey, Capt. Ward, of the navy, and myself, with the knowledge of the President, settled upon the employment, under the Captain, of three or four steamers belonging to the Coast Survey, but he was kept back by this truce.” A strange inconsistency. The truce had expired with Mr. Holt’s letter to Col. Hayne on the sth of February, and General Scott, in hishtatement says, “It would have been easy to reinforce this fort down to or about the 12th of February.” Why then did the reinforce ments not proceed ? This was simply because of communications from Major Anderson. It was most fortunate that they did not proceed; because the three or four small steamers which were to bear them would never have reached the fort, and in the attempt must have been captured or destroyed. The vast inadequacy of the force provided to accomplish the object, was demonstrated by information received from Major Anderson at the War Department on the last day of the Administration. I purposely forbear at present to say more on this subject, lest I might, however uninten tionally, do injustice to one or more of the parties concerned, in consequence of the brev ity required by the nature of this communica tion. The facts relating to it, with the appro priate acccompaniments, have been fully pre sented in a historical review, prepared a year ago, which will ere long be published. This review contains a sketch of the four last months of my administration. It is impartial ; at least such is my honest conviction. That it has not yet been published has arisen solely from an apprehension, no longer entertained, that something therein might beunjußtly perverted into an interference with the Government in a vigorous prosecution of the war for the main tenance of the Constitution and the restoration of the Union, which was far, very far, from my intention. After a careful retrospect, I can solemnly declare, before God and my country, that I cannot reproach myself with any act of com mission or omissuuTßince the existing troubles commenced. I have never doubted that my countrymen would yet do me justice. In my special message of the Bth of January, 1861, I presented a full and fair exposition of the alarming condition of the country, and urged Congress either to adopt measures of compro mise, or, failing in this, to prepare for the last alternative. In both aspects, my recom mendation was disregarded. I Bhall close this document with a quotation of the last senten ces of that message, as follows : “ In conclusion, it may be permitted me to re mark that I have often warned my countrymen of the dangers which now surround ns. This may be the last time I shall refer to the snbjeet officially. I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed; and whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my-country.” Your obedient servant, - James Buchanan. Wheatlandj near Lancaster , Oct. 29, 1872. WANTED— An experienced salesman wishes a situation In a Dry Goods' Store. For par ticulars apply at thi« Office. Loot 4 3t 43. rpHK LANCASTER INTEIILI6BNOES i JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT ' No. 8 NORTH 'DUKE STREET, v LANCASTER, PA. 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