The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
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light-houses, and other real estate, for an apportionment of the public
debt, for a division of all other property, and generally to negotiate about other measures and arrangements." The Commissioners arrived in Washington on the 26th of December, and, by special appointment, were to meet the President at one o'clock on the following day. Before that hour arrived an unlooked-for event occurred. III. We must now turn back again. Major Anderson, it will be remembered, had been sent to Charleston by order of Lieutenant-General Scott, acting, of course, under orders of the Secretary of War. Major Anderson's first letter, dated November 23d, was sent through the regular channels. It appears from the records[3] that, on the 28th of November, he was ordered by Secretary Floyd to address all future communications _only_ to the Adjutant-General or _direct_ to the Secretary of War. From this time forth, then, Major Anderson could communicate only with the conspirators against his government. At last General Scott began to wonder why he had received no further tidings from Major Anderson, and on the 27th of December he delivered the following message to the President:-- Since the formal order, unaccompanied by special instructions, assigning Major Anderson to the command of Fort Moultrie, no order, intimation, suggestion, or communication for his government and guidance, has gone to that officer, or any of his subordinates, from the head-quarters of |
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