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Or the South to stay in the Union when the North was violating the fugitive slave part of the Constitution, eh?

So then you agree that President Buchanan was in the right to try and send supplies to Sumter? Does that extend to President Lincoln's actions as well?

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From the South Carolinian viewpoint, the North broke the agreement first. Even Buchanan recognized that. As he said, "Under these circumstances it is clear that Major Anderson acted upon his own responsibility, and without authority, unless, indeed, he had 'tangible evidence of a design to proceed to a hostile act' on the part of the authorities of South Carolina, which as not yet been alleged."

I presume Buchanan could have fixed the situation by arranging with the governor to let Anderson back into Fort Moultrie. Instead Buchanan embarked on Scott's secret plan to slip supplies and troops into Fort Sumter via the Star of the West.

WASHINGTON, December 30, 1860.
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:

Lieutenant-General Scott begs the President of the United States to pardon the irregularity of this communication.

It is Sunday; the weather is bad, and General Scott is not well enough to go to church. But matters of the highest national importance seem to forbid a moment's delay, and if misled by zeal, he hopes for the President's forgiveness.

Will the President permit General Scott, without reference to the War Department and otherwise, as secretly as possible, to send two hundred and fifty recruits from New York Harbor to re-enforce Fort Sumter, together with some extra muskets or rifles, ammunition, and subsistence stores?

It is hoped that a sloop of war and cutter may be ordered for the same purpose as early as to-morrow. General Scott will wait upon the President at any moment he may be called for.

The President's most obedient servant,
WINFIELD SCOTT

Now back to the bigger question. You used the broken agreement situation to try to justify Buchanan's action. You didn't respond to my analogy of the South being justified to get out of the broken constitutional compact.