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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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^ of Major Anderson to the summons: I cannot surrender the fort. I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batterme to pieces, I shall be starved out in three days. The vessels with provisions had not arrived. Why did not Jef-ferson Davis wait till they came, and open fire upon them rather thanupon the fort ? Because he and his fellow-conspirators did not wish towait. So long as the Stars and Stripes floated above Sumter the Con-federacy amounted to nothing. Starving out the garrison would not bevictory. The booming cannon must announce to the world that theConfederacy was a power by itself, entitled to a place among the na-tions. The United States must be the first to feel and acknowledgeits power. With the first glimmer of day (April 12, 1861) the bombardmentbegan. (See Drumbeat of the Nation.) The fleet made its appear- OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION. 2V3
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ROBERT E. LEE. ance, but did not attempt to relieve the fort. Major Andersons pro-visions were gone. He could no longer continue the contest, and su!--rendered, the garrison being allowed to depart for New York, SundayApril U, 1S61. Let us recall the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln. March 4, whenh-e took the oath to support the Constitution: • In 3our hands, my dis-satisfied fellow-countr3^men, and not in mine, are the momentous issuesof civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have noconflict Avithout being yourselves the aggressors, 250 LIFE OF ABRAHA^I LINCOLN. He has kept his word. War has begun, but not by him. He hasdone what he could, consistent with his oath to support the Constitu-tion, to avert it. Never before such a Sunday in the United States.The telegraph has flashed the news to every city. Bulletins read:Fort Sumter surrendered ! The flag humiliated! Two governments:one in Washington — the other in Montgomery. The great republiccrumbling to pieces! Go

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