]
[Footnote 205: Ibid., p. 460.]
[Footnote 206: Permoli _vs_. First Municipality, 3 Howard, 610.]
APPENDIX G.
Correspondence between the Commissioners of South Carolina and the
President of the United States (Mr. Buchanan) relative to the forts in
the harbor of Charleston.
_Letter of the Commissioners to the President_.
Washington, _December_ 28, 1860.
Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from
the Convention of the People of South Carolina, under which we are
"authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United
States for the delivery of the forts, magazines, lighthouses, and other
real estate, with their appurtenances, within the limits of South
Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the public debt, and for a
division of all other property held by the Government of the United
States as agent of the confederated States of which South Carolina was
recently a member; and generally to negotiate as to all other measures
and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation
of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this
Commonwealth and the Government at Washington."
In the execution of this trust, it is our duty to furnish you, as we now
do, with an official copy of the ordinance of secession, by which the
State of South Carolina has resumed the powers she delegated to the
Government of the United States, and has declared her perfect
sovereignty and independence.
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