Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1864-12-15

! EtU 0Ob CDtiS "a II O<t~ u VI s4C"c3 NilCt
/ begged him to procure for me an eaFly
/ interview with the President. that
might make one effort more 0 save ihs
! fogts and the Union
BY appointment, The Secretary accom-.
ranied me 10 the President, December
/ 5. when the same topics, secessionism
etc. were again fully discussed. There
being, a: he momena IN The opinion o.
the President, no danger OF an early Sc
cession beyond South Carolina, the Pres.
ident, IN reply 10 my arguments for i'm
meGiately reinforcing Fort Moullrie aud
sending a garrison 10 Fort Sumter, Sid
in substance, the time had not arrived
FOR doing so tha' ha rould wat he nc
ton OF he CcnvenLioli Of South Careli.
Us. IN the expectation .aat a commission
wcud be appointed ard sent TO negotiate
wiz him aud Congress, respecting The
secession of the State and the property
Of the United States held within It's
limits: ana that. IL Congress should de-
eide against the secession, then he would
ssli a reinforcement. and telegraph the
commanding officer { Major Andersen
.of Fort Moulir.e, % hold. the forts
{ (Moultrie aud Sumter) against attack.
Ard the Secretary, with animation,
added Ne have vessel Of War (,he
BroolIyn) held in readiness at Norfolk
and he would then send three hundred
men. in her, from Fortress Monroe, 10
Charleston TO which | replied, first,
Thai SO many men conld not be with
drawn from that garrison, but could be
aken from New York. Next, that II
would then be TOO late, as the South Car
oIina Commissioners would have the
gams ia their own hands- by first using
and then cutting the wires that, as
there was not soldier IN Fort Sumter,
apy i.apdfu. of armed secesslonlSts might
selze ard occupy II, etc
Here the remark may be permitted,
that, if the Secrelary's three h0ndred
men had then Cor some time later been
sent to Forts MOuliris and Sumter, beth
would DOW have been in the possession
of the United States, and not battery
belaw them, could lave been erected by
the Secesslonisis. Consequently, the ac-
cess 20 those forts from the sea would
Now The end of March, 1851 be un.
distracted and free.
Ou the reception Of Mr.. Floyd, al
Richmond, tho EEamiaer pronounced a
ulorv upoa Kin ia which the following
passage occurs:
The plan invented by General Scotl
TO stop secession was. Ike all other cam.
paigns devised by I,iIs, very atiii0 "a It's
details aud nearly certain of general suo-
cess. The Southern States are full Of
arsenals and forts, commanding their
rivers and strategic pointi. Gen. Scott
desired to transfer The army of the Unit
I'd States to these forts as speedily and
as quietly as possible. The Southern
States conld not cut off communication
between he Government and the fort
resseses without a great feet. which they
cannot build for years-or take them by
land without one hundred thousand men,
many hundred million dollars, severai
campaicus, and many bloody seige.-
Had Scott been able 10 have got these
forts in lie cond.ian he desired them to
be, the Soulhern ConftderaCy would not
now exist.
The same day, December ID, wrote
he following nc,e:
Lieutenant General S Oft begs the
President 10 pardon him for supplying
III this note, what he omitted TO say tbs
morniDr, at the interview with winch he
was honored by the President. l. Long
prior to the Force bill March 2, 1889,
prior to lie ISSUE Of his Proclamation,
and, in part, prios 70 the passage ct the
ordinance Of notification - President
Jackson. under The acl Of March 3, 1907
authorizing the employment o. tie
land and naval forces s"--caused REM
foccemenls 10 be sent 10 Fort Moultrle.
ard a sloop-o war (the Natchez), with
lwo revenue enters. 10 be sent ic Charles
ton harbor Gall uuder Scot), in order to
prevent the seizure OF that fert hy the
uullifier5; and , To insure the eXecu,
tion Of the revenue laws-Generai
Scott himself arrived at Charleston the
day after the passage of the ordinance
Of publication. and many Of the addi-
iional companies were then en- route Tor
he same destination.
President Jackson famaiiarly said at
the time THAT by NE ,tsseublage 0f
those forces, for lawful purposes. ne was
not making war upon South Carolina !;
oct that If South Carolina etIacked, II
would be South Carolina thas made war
bpon the United States"
General Scott, who received his flrst
instruction (oral) from President JACK
son, in the temporary absence Of the
.Secretsry of War General Cass)' re-
members those expressions well.
Saturday night, Dec. 10, 1860"
yThe Cincinnati Gsz stLe learns that
General Buffers proposition to exchange