The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-29

them to be, thu s7uthern Confederaey would not
now exist."-ParseJ Ge eslogy pronounced on Sec
rotary Floyd (tcho dedfsd SCOTS pldBs) by The Rich
nsOnd Era,niner, Fioyd's reception Of that city.
The same day, December Is, l wrote
the following note:
Lieut.. Gen. Scott begs the President
to pardon him for supplying, in this note,
what he omitted to say this morning at
the interview with which he was honored
by the President
Long prior to the force bin, March
2, 1868, prior to the issue of his proc
lamation, and in part prior to the pas
sage of the ordinance of notification,
President jackson, under the act of
March 3, 1907, authorizing the employ
ment of the land and naval forces, caus-
ed reinforcements to be sent to Fort
Moultrie, and a sloop-of-war, (the Match
ez,) with two revenue cutters, to be sent
to Charleston harber, in order, /, to pre-
vent the seizure of that fort by the nulli-
fers, and 2, to enforce the execution of
the revenue laws Gen. Scott himself
arrived at Charleston the day after the
passage of the ordinance of notification,
and many of the additional companies
were then en- route for the same destina-
ton.
President jackson familiarly said at
the time that, by the assemblage of
those forces, for lawful 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 in
structions (oraD from the President, in
the temporary absence of the Secretary
of War, (Gen Cass), remembers those
expressions well.
Saturday Night, Dec. Is, 1860"
DECEMBER 2S.-Again, after Maj. An
derson had gallantly and wisely thrown
his handful of men from Fort MOultrie
into Fort Sumter-learning that, on de-
mand of South Carolina, there was great
danger he might be ordered by the Sec
retary back to the less tenable work, or
out of the harbor-I wrote this note:
"Lieut. Gen. Scott (who has had a
bad night, and can scarcely hold up his
head this morning) begs to express the
hope to the Secretary of War-l. That
orders may not-be given for the evacua-
ton of Fort Sumter 2 That one hun
dred and fifty recruits may instantly be
sent from Governors Island to reinforce
that garrison with ample supplies of am
munition and subsistence, including
fresh vegetables, as potatoes, onions, tur-
nips; and, 8. That one or two armed
vessels be sent to support the said fort
"Lieut. Gen. S. avails himself of this
opportunity to express the hope that the
recommendations heretofore made by
him to the Secretary of War respecting
Forts jackson, St Philip, Morgan, and
Pulaski, and particularly in respect to
Forts Pickens and MoRoo and the Pen
sacoia Navy Yard, in connexion with
the last two named works, may be recon
sidered by the Secretary
"Lieut. Gen. S. will further ask the
attention of the Secretary to Forts Jef-
ferson and Taylor, which are wholly ma
tional-being of far greater value even
to the most distant points of the Atlantic
coast and the people on the upper waters
of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio
rivers than to the State of Florida. There
is only feeble company at Key West
for the defence of Fort Taylor, and not a
soldier in Fort Jefferson to resist hand
full of fllibusters or row-boat of pirates;
and the Gulf, soon after the beginning
of secession or revolutionary troubles in
the adjacent States, will swarm with
such nuisances.
DECEMBER 30-I addressed the Presi
dent again, as follows:
Lieutenant General Scott begs the
e kl a.
the irregularity of this communication
1t is Sunday; the weather is bad, ant
General S. is not well enough to go tt
church.
But matters of grave national i'm
portance seem to forbid moments de
lay, and, if misled by zeal, he hopes fol
the Presidents forgiveness.
Will the President permit Genera
S., without reference to the War Depart
ment, and otherwise as secretly as posi-
BILE, to send two hundred and fifty re
cruits from New York harbor to reinforc,
Fort Sumter, together with some extr;
muskets or rifles, ammunition, and sub
sistence?
ut is hoped that sloop of war anC
cutter may be ordered for the same pur
pose as early as tomorrow.
"Gen. S. will wait upon the Presiden
| at any moment he may be called for.
The South Carolina commissioners ha,
already been many days in Washington
and no movement of defence (on tn
part of the United States) was permit
| ted.
l will hereby close my notice of For
Sumter by quoting from some of my pre-
vious reports.
1t would have been easy to reinforc
this fort down to about the 18th of Fet
ruary. In this long delay Fort Moultri
had been re-armed and greatly strength
ened in every way by the rebels. Man
powerful new land batteries (beside
formidable raft) have been constructed
Hulks, too, have been sunk in the princi
pal channel so as to render access t
| Fort Sumter from the sea impracticabl
without first carrying all the lower bate
ries of the secessionists. The difficult
of reinforcing has thus been increases
ten or twelve fold First, the late Presi
dent refused to allow any attempt to b
made because he was holdiug negotia
tons with the Sonth Carolina Commits
sloners.
| . 1t not till January that, by the aid o
| eecretary Holt, q strong and loyal mani OBJ
sained permission to send to the feeble gar
| rison of Fort Taylor, X West, and at the sam