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Excerpt from America's Foreign Relations
There is no doubt that a most unfortunate impression was created in England, and probably elsewhere in Europe, by the halting and pusillanimous course of the Buchanan government between the time of the election Of Lincoln in November, 1860, and his inauguration in March, 1861. In his last annual mes sage to Congress in December, Buchanan denied, it is true, the right Of States to secede from the Union. But in the same docu ment he proceeded at still greater length to argue that the Fed eral Government had no right to coerce a State - that is, to pre vent it from seceding. Later, when an armed con?ict between the South Carolina troops and the Federal forces at Charleston seemed imminent, Buchanan in his orders to commanders was far more intent on having them avoid a clash than on their pro teeting the Federal forts and other property and defending the honor of the ?ag. This led even the friends Of America abroad to wonder whether the Federal Government had the spirit and purpose to maintain the Union.
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