Sunday, April 24, 2016

James Buchanan to Senator John Slidell, January 29, 1861


washington, January 29, 1861.

My Dear Sir: With every sentiment of personal friendship and regard, I am obliged to say in answer to your note of Sunday, that I have full confidence in the Secretary of War; and his acts, in the line of his duty, are my own acts, for which I am responsible.

Yours very respectfully,
james Buchanan.

SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 277

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