John Slidell et all to James Buchanan, January 19, 1861

SENATE CHAMBER, January 19, I861.

SIR: We have been requested to present to you a copy of a correspondence between certain senators of the United States and Colonel Isaac W. Hayne, now in this city, on behalf of the government of South Carolina, and to ask that you will take into consideration the subject of said correspondence.

Very respectfully, your obedient servants,

JOHN SLIDELL.

BEN. FITZPATRICK.

S. R. MAELORY.

His EXCELLEcy JAMES BUCHANAN,

President of the United States.

SOURCE: John Bassett Moore, Editor, Works of James Buchanan, Volume 11, p. 129