"Ten days hence, the State of South Carolina, it is believed, will separate herself from the United States of North America, and establish an independent government. She will dissolve the United States Courts, eject the Judges and Marshal, break off the Post-office connections, expel the Federal Collector and Port-officers, and declare Charleston a free port of entry to the world."
"Let Mr. Buchanan...dispatch a ship-of-war or well-armed revenue cutter to lay outside of Charleston harbor, and there to collect the duties from every vessel entering from a foreign port or to give clearances to such as are outward bound. The Force Act gave the President power 'to collect duties by land and water.' What is to prevent the United States from thus exercising its only important powers at the port of Charleston...."
"The South Carolina commerce would be cut off during the time of this occupation. The people at the North...are becoming more and more convinced, whatever South Carolina or even all the Cotton States may do, that the vast and well-founded material interests of the North and West will only receive a temporary shock." (Excerpts from New York Times article, December 8, 1860.
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