Franklin Pierce and the Fight for the Old Union

thev ought to make significant political concessions and grantrnconstitutional safeguards; as he pointed out, it was they, not thernSouth, who were mostly to blame for the sectional conflict.rnWhen he heard of Lincoln's decision to reinforce and resupplyrnSumter he wrote: "I cannot conceive of a more idle, foolish, illadvised . . .