State Of South Carolina, Executive Office,
Charleston, January 11,
1861
To Major Anderson,
Commanding Fort Sumter.
Sir: I have thought proper, under all the
circumstances of the peculiar state of public affairs in the country at
present, to appoint the Hon. A. G. Magrath and General D. F. Jamison, both
members of the Executive Council and of the highest position in the State, to
present to you considerations of the gravest public character, and of the
deepest interest to all who deprecate the improper waste of life, to induce the
delivery of Fort Sumter to the constituted authorities of the State of South Carolina,
with a pledge on its part to account for such public property as is under your
charge.
Your obedient
servant,
F. W. Pickens.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 192
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