Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-11-15
Treason NJ the Capital.

From proofs in our possession, we are
forced 10 the conviction that President
Buchanan is unfatbful TO the Union, and
indirectly, if not directly connlving at the
treasonable projects of the crack brains of
South Carolina.
We feel authorized to state as facts:
/. That the garrison at Fort Moultrie
has been allowed to run down to sixty two
men, including sick, cooks, prisoners, DC,
leaving, with the officers, but fifty men to
defend the post.
2. That even these few men are INSULT
GENTLY supplied with ammunition and pro-
visions.
8. That Colonel Gardner, an openly de-
clared secessionists, is the commanding Of
fcer.
4. That Fort Sumter and Castle Pinck
ney have no garrison, though containing
large quantities of arms and public proper
ty.
S. That an officer of the State Depart
mept declared, in September, openly TO the
people in Charleston who questioned him
on the subject, that Mr.. Buchanan would
not attempt coercion IN case South Carroll
ma would secede, but would withdraw the
troops from Fort Moultrie, declare Charles
ton no longer port of entry, and station
q revenuec cutter off the mouth Of the bar-
Dor to blockade it-a notoriouslY useless
act, as the first storm would drive her into
the harbor under the guns of the forts, TO
becoms an easy capture.
6. That although constant representa-
tions have been made of the defenceless
state of the forts and the urgent need of
more men, large body of recruits were
few days since sent to Texas, leaving the
depots here destitute of men to meet the
sudden emergency
z. That under the pretence Of guarding
against any attack by foreign fleet, in
case our interference in Mexico should cause
a collision with any European power, re-
pairs of Fort MouIlrie have begun, which
required part Of the walls on the land side
TO be torn down, and the guns OH that side
to be dismounted, SO that there is no obsta-
Gle to prevent mob from entering the fort
in half dozen different places.
8. The accumulation of thirty thousand
stand of arms and large quantities of am
munition in the Arsenal in the city of
Charleston, without any guard whaterver
over them-an open invitation to the dis
affected to help themselves.
We submit these facts, which are suscep-
tible of confirmation from other sources,
with the single remark that the President
must take the chief responsibility for what
ever occurs at Charleston in conflict with
the federal authority. Having taken no
means to defend iiae property of the gener-
al government, and having placed arms
and ammunition to large amount in the
hands of what is notoriously an insurgent
population, without guard or protection of
any kind, he has exposed himself to the
just suspicious of inviting treason in others,
if not projecting treason himself.-N Y.
Post.
The Post might have added TO this tes-
timony the fact that Mr.. Buchanan keeps
in his Cabinent men who have openly ia
yored secession, and of course has such
men as advisers in his Cabinet councils.
The latest telegraph from Washington
says:
No apprehension exists in official quar-
tiers that any effort will be made TO seize
the forts or other public property in the
South, as no such movements would be
tolerated by the authorities of the States
in which they are located.
That is cool way of surrendering every
Federal gun into the hands of the conspir-
ators, or this secession movement is in fact
a movement made by the State authori-
ties themselves and to those authorities
will Mr. Buchanan have the defence of
Fedfal Forts.