Mr. Reuter sends me
a telegram from Queenstown of the American news. 1. The conference invited by
Virginia met on the 4th, and re-assembled with closed doors on the 5th at
Washington. 2. Slidell and Benjamin have withdrawn. 3. A truce between Lieutenant
Slemmer and State forces at Pensacola Navy-Yard, followed by surrender to
latter. 4. North Carolina resolves unanimously to go with the other slave
States if adjustment fail. 5. United States revenue cutter Lewis Cass
treacherously surrendered to Alabama. 6. Fifty thousand people starving in
Kansas. 7. Secession of Texas definitive. 8. The President has refused to
surrender Fort Sumter on Colonel Hayne's demand; an attack expected. 9. Attempt
on Fort Pickens abandoned. No blood yet spilt.
SOURCE: George Mifflin
Dallas, Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, While United States Minister to
Russia 1837 to 1839, and to England 1856 to 1861, Volume 3, p. 436
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