Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-22
nalIp Natlonaln Democrat.
ivho Began the Wars--A Southern MANS
OpiniOn.

on Browplow gives the following an
.r 10 this question, in late number OF his
paper ,,,,n
.hese Secessionists speak and write OF Lin-
saln,s war, and of the attempt OF the Black
Dannblican Administration to suhiugate the
nth and of their wicked invasion of the
.acred soil of the South A few months
Saoine elapsed since the war was inaugura-
,ad and many having forgot dates and facts,
,bev stand up now, with the assurance OF
Oh Nick. and assert that Lincoln declared
the war, in violation of the Constitution, and
.hot he il vile usurper and a tyrant. And
all who deny the truth of their false assump-
,;oos are AColitiopists, and enemies of the
South.
FOR calmly and see what the facts are. AS
soon as it was ascertained that Lincoln was
oIootsd. South Carolina called Convention
aud seeded from the Union. In that Con-
vention her leading men, such as Keitt,
phett. Spratt, and others, openly avowed
that they had been laboring to overthrow the
Goyernment ever since they first came into
oublic life and that the dissolution of the
Union. had been the study and desire of their
Jivesl
Meanwhile, the Southern members of Bu-
chanan's Cabinet. Flovd, Cobb and Thomp-
son. began to arrange matters for dissolu-
tion. one wear in advance of Lincoln's selec-
Transporting the arms of the Govern
inert ia Southern forts and the munitions of
war. with q view to order their seizure
when they should coclude to strike. South
ern Senators were holding on to their seats
Congress and in night caucuses, working to
overthrow a Government they had taken an
oath to uphold, and in the day time were pre-
tending to support the Constitution, and act
as privy counsel to Buchanan TO support the
Constitution and the Laws,
AS soon as they could rush several other
Cotton States out of the Union, by false dis
matches, and call convention of self-consti
tuted delegates at Montgomery, they organ
lied bogus government elected its officers,
and at once went to raising an immense ar
nv Six thousand of their troops congrega-
ted at Charleston, to assault and take Govern
ment property in Fort Sumter, when the
Government had only force Of seventy men,
for peaceable PURPOSES such as taking care
of the Government property. Pryor, of Vir-
ginia, visited there. made public speech to
the citizens and soldiers, told them to attack
the fort and spill some blood, for that was
necessary to induce Virginia to go out They
did make the assault and the fort fell. Pre-
vious to this they had fired on the Star Of
the West, crippled her in the Charleston har'
Dor, and boasted that the Lincoln Govern
ment had not courage to defend its proper
ty. On the heels of these and other out
RACES, Walker their Secretary of War, at
Montgomery, made public speech on the
street and avowed that it was their purpose
to take Washington at once, and that they
would plant the Confederate flag upon the
Capitol in sixty days from that date.
All this time the Federal Administration
nad done nothing. not even what it was
sworn to do. The people-North and South
called upon the Government to defend its
rights and their property, and then it was
that Lincoln issued his Proclamation. We
are not all fools in The South, and hence we
recollect these facts, and so long as we recol-
lect them, we must censure the Southern
traitors who inaugurated the war.