Coercion Debate and Early Civil War Tensions
A Washington correspondence recounts the January 1861 Cabinet meeting over Fort Sumter reinforcements, noting decisive language by James Breckanan and the Secretary of War and Navy to act. The piece quotes Daniel S. Dickinson on preserving the Union through constitutional equality and non coercion, alongside notices of abolitionist unrest in Rochester and Buffalo, and rumors of secession fallout in Washington.
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