. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . ery offer of compromisewas voted down by the Northern delegates. So thePeace Congress adjourned without accomplishinganything. 16. Seizure of Forts and Arsenals.—The Confederateauthorities proceeded to occupy such forts andarsenals as were peaceably surrendered to them, bui 106 Story of the Confederate States. made no attack upon those held by United State
. Story of the Confederate States; or, History of the war for southern independence, embracing a brief but comprehensive sketch of the early settlement of the country, trouble with the Indians, the French, revolutionary and Mexican wars .. . ery offer of compromisewas voted down by the Northern delegates. So thePeace Congress adjourned without accomplishinganything. 16. Seizure of Forts and Arsenals.—The Confederateauthorities proceeded to occupy such forts andarsenals as were peaceably surrendered to them, bui 106 Story of the Confederate States. made no attack upon those held by United Statestroops.^ 17. Confederate Peace Commissioners.—The ConfederateGovernment sent commissioners to Washington to tryand make a peaceful settlement of all questions atissue. Mr. Buchanan received them as private gentle-men, but not as embassadors from the Confederategovernment. He held that a State could not secede,but that at the same time the government had nopov/er to coerce a State. 1 Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, Fort Pickens at Pensacola, andthe forts near Key West, Florida, were held by garrisons of Federaltroops. The desire to settle everything peaceably prevented the Southernpeople from making any attack upon these Beginning of the War. 107
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