New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-04
IL COMPROMISE IN oRDKRs

We ask this question Of sober, patriotic con-
seryatye citizens, who do not regard Government
as q farce and are unwilling to see that one
which they love and have sworn to upheld run
exclusively for the benefit of traitors or stock
iobbeIs. Let them but give q glance at the more
conspicuous facts which indicate eur present po-
sitiOn:
1t is fact that South Carolina has, of her
own mere volition, assumed to dissolve the Union
which makes us o nation, and has declared her.
self utterly separated from and alien TO that
Union.
1t lie fact that she has sent Commissioners to
Washington to treat with the Federal Executive
for the surrender to her of the Federal forts in
Charleston Harbor and their armament, and Of
the lighthouses, &c, along her coast
1t IL fact that she has assumed to own and
control the Federal Custom-H House in Charleston
and the Federal post.ofices dottiDg her soil.
II is a fact that, purely because Major Auder-
SOD, in command Of the forts aforesaid, has seen
fit TO concentrate his sixty or seventy men in
that one of those forts most remote from the
City, and least exposed to capture by assault
from the adjacent main land the rebellious State
has proceeded to take military possession of the
residue Of those forts, the half dozen Federal
soldiers left therein having quietly retired at the
approach Of an overwhelming force.
Ii is fact that Fort Sumter is at this mo-
'ment substantially invested by the SecessOnists,
who are on the point Of opening fire on it, if
they have not already done 30, they knowing
that its guns are not half mounted nor nearly
half manned, and hoping to reduce it before it
can be relieved.
1t is q fact that, at the very outset of this re-
bellioD, long before Major Anderson had made
any movement with regard to it, the Federal
Arsenal in Charleston, containing many thousand
gents, who stopped the transfer of ammunition
therefrom under Major AS order and compelled
his men to return without any.
1t is fact that the Federal Collector and
Postmaster have fraternized with the rebels,
while the Federal District Judge has resigned and
become one of their leaders, and that the Fede-
raj flag has been hauled down and the Disunion
banner raised instead not only on the captured
forts but on the Federal Custom House, Arsenal,
and POst-Office
1t is fact that the Carolina PlenipOtentiaries
in Washington impudently protested against
Maj. Andersons removal from fort in which
the rebels could have wiped out his little band in
twenty minutes to one where it will bother them
to take him in six weeks, and threatened to
" break of the negotiations - if he were not
forthwith ordered back to the place where they
could easily kill him.
1t is fact that the emissaries of South
Carolina are busily fomenting rebellion in nearly
Or quite every Slave State. with intent to split
'be Union through the center, and make one of
heir own, into which none but Slave States
shall be admitted.
1t 10 fact that telegraphio reports of the
seizure ofthe United States forts on the coast Of
North Carolina by the seoessonist Governor of
hat State, acting on bis naked responsibility
without whisper Of authority from any quarter,
we're received with quite general credence
throughout the country. Though the deed was
not done, the report doubtless foreshadows what
Is contemplated and intended.