Two days before his arrival at Washington alarming news from Charleston brought Lincoln very nearly, if not quite, to the point of issuing sailing orders to the Sumter expedition.  Lincoln, VI, 240.  A day later, Welles issued such orders.  N. IL, first series, I, 235; Bancroft, II, 138-139.  On April sixth, the Pickens messenger returned to Washington.  N. and H., IV, 7.  Lincoln was now in full possession of all the facts.  In his own words, “To now reinforce Fort Pickens before a crisis would be reached at Fort Sumter was impossible, rendered so by the exhaustion of provisions at the latter named fort. . . .  The strongest anticipated case for using it (the Sumter expedition) was now presented, and it was resolved to send it forward.”  Lincoln, VI, 302.  He also issued peremptory orders for the Pickens expedition to land its force, which was done April twelfth.  N. R., first series, I, 110-111, 115.  How he reasoned upon the question of a moral obligation devolving, or not devolving, upon himself as a consequence of the Buchanan-Mallory agreement, he did not make public.  The fact of the agreement was published in the first message.  But when Congress demanded information on the subject, Lincoln transmitted to it a report from Welles declining to submit the information on account of the state of the country. 10.  IL, 440-441.

25.  Lincoln, VI, 241.

XVI.  On to Richmond.

1.  May Ms, I, 23.

2.  N. and H., IV, 152.

3.  Hay Ms, I, 45.

4.  Hay Ms, I, 46.

5.  Hay Ms, I, 5~56.

6.  Sherman, I, 199.

7.  Nicolay, 213.

8.  N. and H., IV, 322-323, 360.

9.  Bigelow, I, 360.

10.  Nicolay, 229.

11.  Lincoln, VI, 331-333.

12.  Own Story, 55, 82.

XVII.  Defining the issue.

1.  Lincoln, VI, 297-325.

2.  Lincoln, X, 199.

3.  Lincoln, X, 202-203.

4.  Lincoln, VI, 321.

5.  Lincoln, VII, 56-57.

6.  Bancroft, II, 121; Southern Historical Papers, I, 446.

7.  Lincoln, VI, 304.

8.  Hay Ms, I, 65.

9.  Lincoln, VI, 315.

10. 39 Globe, I, 222; N. and H., IV, 379.

XVIII.  The Jacobin club.

1.  White, 171.

2.  Riddle, 40-52.

3.  Harris, 62.

4.  Public Man, 139.

5. 37 Globe, III, 1334.

6.  Chandler, 253.

7.  White, 171.

8.  Conway, II, 336.

9.  Conway, II, 329.

10.  Rhodes, III, 350.

11.  Lincoln, VI, 351.

12.  Hay Ms, I, 93.

13.  Hay Ms, 1, 93.

14.  Bigelow, I, 400.

15.  Chandler, 256.

XIX.  The Jacobins become inquisitors.

1.  Lincoln, VII, 28-60.