Democratic (constitutionalist) President Buchanan sends an emergency message to the mixed (Democratic-Republican/American) urging immediate passage of the Crittenden Compromise (of 1860) in a last-ditch effort to avert secession.
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Authority:
Article II, Section 2 [Clause 2]
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References:
Maury Klein, Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession and the Coming of the Civil War, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 194.
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