Sir: The Hon. R. W. Barnwell, the Hon. J. H. Adams
and the Hon. James L. Orr have been appointed Commissioners by the Convention
to proceed immediately to Washington to present the Ordinance
of Secession to the President, and to negotiate in reference to the
evacuation of the forts and other matters growing out of the Act of Secession.
They will probably arrive on Tuesday next. Please inform the President of this.
Answer this.
(Signed)
F. W. Pickens.
"Hon. W. H. Trescot."
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 142
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