Entertaining this conviction, I refrained even from sending reenforcements to Major Anderson, who commanded the forts in Charleston Harbor, until an absolute necessity for doing so should make itself apparent.
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I confess I hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.
The increase of the sum appropriated in the present bill over that in the bill of the last session, being within a fraction of $20,000, has induced me to examine the question with some attention.
It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within the seceding States so far as this may be practicable.
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