CHAPTER XVIII.

1860—December.

General Scott again advises the President—Major Anderson’s 365 Removal from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter—Arrival of Commissioners from South Carolina in Washington—Their Interview and Communication with the President—The supposed Pledge of the _Status Quo_—The “Cabinet Crisis” of December 29th—Reply of the President to the South Carolina Commissioners—The anonymous Diarist of the _North American Review_ confuted