. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . ement of Anderson into Fort Sumter,no act or omission of his deserved unfriendly his course from the beginning been as clear ofoffense as it was from and after the 10th of January,his anxiety to avoid a collision would have been ap-proved. The country would then have believed that itwas founded on solicitude for the Union, and not forthe Southern cause. When this same policy was con-tinued by Mr. Lincoln, — as it was, — none thought ofattributing it to a want of patriotism. Mr. Buchananwas distrusted rather for the advance of false
. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . ement of Anderson into Fort Sumter,no act or omission of his deserved unfriendly his course from the beginning been as clear ofoffense as it was from and after the 10th of January,his anxiety to avoid a collision would have been ap-proved. The country would then have believed that itwas founded on solicitude for the Union, and not forthe Southern cause. When this same policy was con-tinued by Mr. Lincoln, — as it was, — none thought ofattributing it to a want of patriotism. Mr. Buchananwas distrusted rather for the advance of false doctrinesat first, and for the far-reaching consequences of suchaction, with which he was fairly chargeable, than forany subsequent enforcement of those political heresies,—for of this he was innocent. The unionists were notoffended because of his failure to provoke collision orwar with the South, at a time when the country was allunprepared, but because he had encouraged the revolu-tionary faction, by declaring that the government could. jiJijEAJ^J^Mfl?:^^
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