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It came with but one dissenting voice , Toucey , Secretary of the Navy . `` A ship be sent at once to the relief of Sumter . '' With stubborn terror the President refused to sign the order for an armed vessel . At one o'clock they compromised on the little steamer , _ Star of the West _ , and Buchanan agreed that she should attempt to land provisions for Anderson 's fifty-odd men . Holt hurried from the council chamber at one o'clock with a smile of triumph playing about his sinister mouth . His plan had succeeded . He had worked Stanton as the legal adviser of the President exactly as he had foreseen .