The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1861-04-25

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and brave people would have permitted con-
tinuation Of daily supplies to agarrison Of but
seventy men. 1t was evident that such
force as that--hardly more than carporsps
guard-could never endsnger any rights Of
the people Of South Carolina. IL was hardly
sufficient to have the proper care Of the Uni
ted States property in time Of peace. Andyet,
without even waiting Tor q plausible pretext
in the arrival, or attempt TO enter, Of the un-
armed supply ship whose errand was ammo
unced to their Commissioners, South CAROL
ina has thought proper to inaugurate civil
war. .... - II. s......,
The grief and sense OF humiliation we feel
comWls n different tone in speaking Of so
great an outrage and crime against human
ity, liberty, o,aer. and law, as IL Justly calls
for, The result Is evident among our own
people. All party and political distinctions.
must be tffaced.
All such petty matters fade out before the
great question as twinkling stars fade out be-
fore the rising sun. There can be but two
sets of men amoung us-those who are for
the Union, and those who are against it.
We shall now learn who are for the Govern
ment Of the United s. ates, and who are for
the Government Of the Confederate States''
who are for the maintenance of that Union
which Washington founded, defended, and
left as sacred legacy TO his countrymen:
and we shall know who aie for breaking it
up, and succumbing to the tyranny ofa politi-
cal party in armed rebellion against the laws
of the land. .s
1.-THE Federal Government, "said Andrew
Jackson, ''it must and shall be preserved"
From the Boston Herald Douglas Democrat
| On the fact that the war has been COM
menced by the sef.consttuted government at
Montgomery, without any other provocation
than an attempt to supply Major Anderson
with provisions to keep his garrison from star
ving-an errand Of mercy ard not Of taunt.
threat or mcnance,--we have no space to
comment u is morning. That the admins
tration will be sustained in it's efforts to pre-
serve the Government we have not the least
doubt. 1t isa quarrel the Free States have
sought to avoid but being dragged into it
will bravely maintain their principles and
honor.
| From the Cincinnati Gazette. '' Ig.
The attack on Fort Sumter without any
offense or injurious act on the prrt ofits COM
msnder, or Of the Government which directs
him, has completed the record. For four
months every n, I Of aggression, of insult and
States against the Government and people of
the American nation which can be possibly
conceived, except the actual conflict Of arms.
; This has come, and .henceforth we have TO
hear the sound of war and the combat Of
battles. The rebel army, deliberately fred
on the flag of the American nation-that n e
which has been borne triumphantly on the
battle and tho breeze for near eighty years;
| tbot has ~
these very traitors, and been respected by
every foreign nation throughout the globe.
: The record is made up. He who is not for
his country is against it, Let every loyal
| heart now rally to the country. Let the flag
be bone aloft, and the battle will end with q
victory for the Union, for humanity and the
n world.
from the Philadelphia Press, Dem.]
+ The climax of r.bellious folly has been
: reached, and war has been CONNIE, ced by
: the traitors who, after p-rpetating. with inn
punity, many flsgrant ou'rages, heaping every
E imaginable insult upon the Government, and
9 9 in the most au lacious manner setting its au-
thority at def ,nce. have not been contents, d
d with perfect eedom from the chastisemt mt
E which they richly deserved, but have op .ned
their batteries upon an American fort and
rendered bloody contest inevitable. Pity
ing their weakness, and anxious to txhau (
. every reasonable expedient for the proserva-
+ lion of peace, the nation has treated those
who have proved themselves to be its most
o deadly and unrelenting fo-s with degree OF
e magnanmtiy and forbear ance unprecedented
! ! in the AM ais of the world. But now that
= they have unsheathed their swords and
l thrown away their scabbards: now that they
i have shown that they will not be content with
t roting in rebellion, and that III are deter
c mined, if possible, to oveIwhelm with dis
i grace and dishonor the great Republic they
; have labored SO assiduoasly to destroy, every
consideration Of pa riotism and selt-Tespect
will prompt all Americans whose hearts are
T. un ainted with treason to teach the conspira-
tors that il they do not obey the laws of th, ir
+ country, they must still respect its flag.
[From the Cleveland Leader.
e Men Of Ohio the flag Of our country-the
c flag that has never yet lowered to foreign
c foe the flag that has for 80 years been the
# ensign which the oppressed and down-trod-
den of earth have looked TO with eager and
wistful eye the fiag that tells Of heroic strug-
giles and noble deeds Of valor on many hard
fought field, and many a stannch old ship /:
the flag to which many a dying soldier has
, turned his gazing eye, and thanked his God
that it still floated upon the breeze that kissed
: his cory brow the flag that your fathers
1 baplised in holy consecration with their blood
r this flag has been torn down from its stan
J darj. and left to trail in the dust beneath the
D banner OF rebellious host | Shall il remain
/. there? or will you rescue it from its d. 'grada
: ton, and once again give it to the breeze.
9 proudly defiant of native or foreign foes -.
d This is question which you must have a
: voice in deciding. afn7fa hnl ao'
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