“Lets buy the fort.” Thompson
“But they didn’t buy the fort, did they?” NS
Who did not buy the fort? Please explain who is they.
South Carolina or the confederacy. They didn't pay for anything they stole.
“After Anderson’s move to Sumter, a dismayed President faced angry commissioners, who sought the surrender of Fort Sumter, a position that several of his cabinet officers supported.
“Secretary of the Interior (Jacob) Thompson noted that South Carolina was a small state with a sparse white population.
“Why not evacuate property that southerners believed they owned under the doctrine of eminent domain?
“They would buy the fort.
“Moreover, Anderson had violated the earlier agreements with South Carolina that the state had made with Buchanan—or at least thought that it had made.” (note: The state of South Carolina adhered to the agreement until Anderson violated it.
James Buchanan by Jean H. Baker, 2004