The national Republican., 1861-04-11

is to that aspect Of the case that we invite spe.
cial attention.
Here are Georgia, Alabama, ,,,aud Mississippi,
not defending themselves against Federal co.
ercion" on their own soil, but actually march.
ing men into jurisdiction foreign to them
selves, to attack fort belonging to the United
States. This is aggressive war in its most fla.
grant aspects.
PEACE OR Waffle Mobile Register, of
April 4, says:
"Hon. Robert Toombs delivered speech at
Washington, Wilkes county Ca. on Wednes-
day last. The Wilkes Independent says that, in
the course of his remarks, the speaker said he
thought the chances we're better for peace than
war, and gave reasons conclusive and convinc-
ing"
Mr.. Toombs, of course, was specializing upon
the conduct of the Government here, and not
of his own (bogus) Government at Montgomery,
the policy of which he knows to be the fixed
one Of aggression so long as the United States
hold any positions in the Gulf States. In pre-
dieting peace" therefore, Mr.. Toombs was pre-.
dieting the surrender by the United States Of
Fort Pickens, &C., because it is upon no other
terms that the cabal to which he belongs will
consent to "peace" But it was his wish that
was father to the thought, when he INDUCED
the hope of such peace" as that. 1t is no
longer Mr.. Buchanan, with whom he has to
deal.
SEEING SIGHTs.-It was telegraphed from
Charleston here, at noon yesterday, that the re.
ports of armed vessels being seen off the har.
Dor on the day previous were incorrect 1t is
not uncommon for frightened people to mistake
blackened stumps for bears, and there is no
speck on the ocean which the fears Of the
Charlestonians do not transform into a man-of.
war.
MIscHIEFMAKING.-The States and Union
of yesterday says:
"The underground railroad is doing an i'm.
mense business in the way Of running off lugi.
tive slaves from the South. One hundred and
six passed over the Michigan Southern rail.
road, Sunday night, and three hundred more
are reported en- route for Detroit. THE ap-
poin,ment of Giddings as Consul General for
Canada, was nothing.)"
The man who would indite such paragraph,
in these times Of excitement and passion, is
an incendiary. To represent the stampede Of
negroes from Chicago, growing out Of recent
arrest there Of some fugitive slaves, as a " run
ming off" by the hundreds of "slaues from tn
South" and to ascribe it to the "appointmen
of Giddings as Consul General for Canada,
can only have been. done by one /" fatally ben
on mischief"
Fort SuNrER.-Itis is telegraphed from Charles
ton that Lieut.. Talbot, and R. s. Chew, Of th'
State Department, arrived on Monday nigh
with message from the War Department here
that it was intended to supply Fort Sumter will
provisions by an unarmed vessel, but if resist
ance was threatened, then to supply it with pro
visions at all events and by main force. Tn,
reply of Gov. Pickens, as indicated by the dis
patches, was, that he would resist the supplying
of the fort. Upon this view Of the affair, the
responsibility of hostlities, if such ensue, is
upon the South Carolina authorities, unless, in
deed, it is not the right of the United States to
keep their own troops in one of their own forts
from being starved out.
bLEEDISG.-lt Is StateQ III the NlODlle heytS-
ter, of April 4, that "Hon. Jacob Thompson
gave two thousand dollars to the military a,
Oxford" 1t is in this way, that the few rich
men in the seeded region are being constantly
bled. They will And that this is worse thar
even Black Republication, before they. ge
through with it.
DD" Hon. William Bsrksdale, ex.member o.
the U. s. House Of Representatives, and best
remembered as the man who lost his wig in the
melee in the House two or three years ago, has
been appointed Brigadier General in the Mis-
sissippi army.
p6- The notorious Wigfall is reported as
serving as a private soldier at Charleston.
p6- OF the extent of the military force re
Gently dispatched from New York, the Tribune
of yesterday says:
"The aggregate force which these vessels
took out cannot be definitely ascertained Las
week it was reported that 1900 men were con
centrated at this port, sGa although constant
accessions have since been received from dis
tant points, it is now reported thai not more
than BOO men are in garrison here