No. 3.
As the result of my interviewing of to-day I have to say that
I have still unabated confidence that Fort Sumter will be evacuated, and that
no delay that has occurred excites in me any apprehension or distrust, and that
the state of things existing at Fort Pickens will not be altered prejudicially
to the Confederate States. I counsel inactivity in making demands on the
Government for the present. I shall have knowledge of any change in the
existing status.
J. A. C.
22d March, 1861.
SOURCE: Samuel Wylie Crawford, The Genesis of the
Civil War: The Story of Sumter, 1860-1861, p. 331-2
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