She vowed that she would “never be found in the same Confederacy with South Carolina…that really, for the first time in my life, I was ashamed of being a Southerner, since the whole North was crying out at the little pitiful, contemptible course his State was pursuing towards the fort in her harbor. Indeed, I said a great many very unpleasant truths, in the most pleasant manner possible.” She did hope for an amicable resolution to the crisis, she told her husband, but she added that if he and his garrison were made to abandon the fort and cede it to South Carolina, “I, for one, will not be
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