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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix I (search)
the Hon. I. W. Hayne, who will hand you this communication, is authorized to give you the pledge of the State that the valuation of such property will be accounted for, by this State, upon the adjustment of its relations with the United States, of which it was a part. F. W. Pickens. To the President of the United States. extracts from instructions of the State Department of South Carolina to Hon. I. W. Hayne State of South Carolina, Executive Office, State Department, Charleston, January 12, 1861. sir: The Governor has considered it proper, in view of the grave questions which now affect the State of South Carolina and the United States, to make a demand upon the President of the United States for the delivery to the State of South Carolina of Fort Sumter, now within the territorial limits of this State and occupied by troops of the United States. You are now instructed to proceed to Washington, and there, in the name of the government of the State of South Carolina, inqui