John Floyd, Secretary of War, resigns, believing that war is inevitable.
[restored 1/18/2025]
Republican (nationalist) President-elect Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, in a letter to James W. Webb, publisher of the New York City Courier and Enquirer writes, “I think we should hold the forts, or retake them, as the case may be, and collect the revenue.”
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References:
“To James W. Webb, Colonel,” Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 4:164.
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 282.
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/
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