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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 12 (search)
nder present circumstances, they are a standing menace which renders negotiation impossible, and, as our recent experience shows, threatens speedily to bring to a bloody issue questions which ought to be settled with temperance and judgment. We have the honor to be, Very respectfully, your obedient servants, R. W. Barnwell, Commissioners. J. H. Adams, Commissioners. Jas. L. Orr, Commissioners. To the President of the United States. The President's reply. Washington city, Dec. 30, 1860. gentlemen: I have had the honor to receive your communication of 28th inst., together with a copy of your full powers from the Convention of the people of South Carolina, authorizing you to treat with the Government of the United States, on various important subjects therein mentioned, and also a copy of the Ordinance, bearing date on the 20th inst., declaring that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is her