Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, confides in Republican Senator Orville H. Browning, of Illinois, “The plan succeeded. They [the Militia of the independent Republic of South Carolina] attacked [Fort] Sumter—it fell, and thus, did more service than it otherwise could.”
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Richard N. Current, Lincoln and the First Shot, (New York: Harper & Row, 1964; Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland, 1990), 181.
Visitors from Congress: Orville Hickman Browning (1806-1881) – Mr. Lincoln’s White House
www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/residents-visitors/visitors-from-congress/visitors-from-congress-orville-hickman-browning-1806-1881/
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