Sneaking, deceitful, lying, evil, miscreants... Immediately after Lincolns inauguration the Southern men sent a commission to Washington to negotiate for a peaceable adjustment of the matters of forts, &c. Those commissioners were told that just at the moment nothing could be done, but at an early date they should be heard. Week after week they were delayed; while Lincoln and Seward were secretly planning to reinforce Fort Sumpter, of South Carolina, with one of the largest naval fleets ever seen upon American waters. To further show their insincerity, finally they were promised the rights to the markets of Charleston for provisions and that no attempt to reinforce the garrison should be made, while at the same time they were making the most stupendous preparations to reinforce it. Judge Campbell, of the Supreme Court, was the agent through whom this treaty was made. After finding out that Lincoln and Seward were deceiving him he wrote to Seward and accused him of his course of fraud in the matter. Seward never dared an attempt in answer. THE UNWRITTEN CAUSE OF THE SOUTH 1903
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