The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-01-03
SECESSION.

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Since our last issue the traitors at the
South have made rapid progress 10 their
attempts to break up this glorious Union
We have before heard threats of dissolu-
ton Of tho Union, but they had always
ended in threats, and we hoped and be.
lieved that such would be the case in the
present instance, and We still believe that
such would have been the case had it not
been for that hoary headed old traitor
that presides at the White House. Had
he done Is jackson did, when the South
Carolinaians began to threaten, he would
have strengthened the forts at Charleston
harbor, and then no attempt would have
ever been made to take them, and seccs-
sion would have harmlessly burned itself
out. As it is, the President has done all
in his power to strengthen the enemies
Of the Government. He has by his Sec.
retaries sent hundreds Of men to repair
the forts at the governments expense
and left them without defenders SO that
they might fall into the hands of the reb.
els, in the best possible condition to re.
sist the o. s. Government, when an
honest man should endeavor to enforce
the laws. He has placed $4,000 stand
Of arms in the arsenal at Charleston and
then given them to the rebels. He has
sold 120, 900 stand Of government arms
since the election, to the Cotton States
for nominal sum, arms of the newest and
best styles. He has left large quantities
Of ammunition in exposed places where
they must easily fall into the hands of
the rebels He has stripped the arsen-
ais in the free States to accomplish his
traitorous purposes. He has just douat-
ed 5000 of improved weapons to Louis,
lima, since her Legislature passed resolu-
tions in favor of revolution. He has
sent nearly all the troops to the Pacific
States, where they are not needed. He
has sent off, on long cruises, nearly ev,
cry man of v ar belonging to our navy
Aud while all this has been done, the
Treasury has been robbed so that money
cannot be had to pay the ordinary ex-
penses, and when an attempt is made to
borrow Eve millions, bids are made for but
half tho o,,l shrx
rate of interest, of twelve per cent many
bids being as high as sc per cent Ia
short he has been strengthening the reb.
els and weakening the government so that
it should have 10 power to enforce an
observance of the laws. Buchanan, thank
God he leaves no descendants to curse
the earth, has done all in his power to
aid the fi7e-eaters in their determination
to break up the Union, aud South Caro-
lima, encouraged by him, resolved on The
2lst ult., that she is out of the Union,
and other States will most likely pass
similar resolutions before the middle of
this month. South Carolina has sent
commissioners to Washington to get the
President to surrender the forts and 9th.
CT government property to the seeding
State, and he, the traitor, has received
an negotiated with them.
The forts at Charleston were under the
command of a gallant Kentukian, Col
Anderson, who has but Sc men. and he
sent to Washington, request for re-cn
forcements Gen. Cass, Gen Scott and
other true men advised that the re.cn--
forcements be sent, bat the President re-
fused, leaving Col Anderson and his
men to be sacrificed by the Infatuated
mob of secessionists The gallant Col,
finding that the administration designed
to sacrifice him and his men, unless he
too should turn traitor, left Fl. Moultrie,
first spiking the guns and burning the
gun carriages, aud took possession of TT.
Sumpter, Que of the strongest forts on
the Atlantic coast, built up in the middle
OF the entrances to tbs harbor, where he
can withstand all attacks for long time
When the report Of Col. Anderscn's
course was received at Washington. the
rebel commissioners demanded an expla.
nation Of the President, who assured
them that it was done without his orders.
They then demanded that he should be
sent back to 1T Moultric, or ordered to
give up TT. Sumpter to the rebels, or
they would Ego home aud prepare for the
worst, What the President will do we
cannot say, but judging from what he has
done We shall not be surprised to hear
that he uses all his power to aid the reb
els.
Here We have the spectacle Of the Pres
ident OF the bsst government on earth be.
ing closeted and holding consultation
with rebels, instead of hanging them As
they ought to be. 1t is possible that the
parties that were defeated in the late e.
ectlon, will demonstrate that man is not
capable OF self government, that we ougb,
to be ruled over by hereditary monarchs
Whatever may be the result, the Rcpub.
iican party which has never had the
power to act for good or evil, cannot be
responsible. Let the Democratic party
hand over an unbroken Union to the Con.
stitutionally elected President, and then
hold the Republicans responsible if it is
oot preserved We heard, from our op.
ponents in the late political contest Of
the great and glorious Democratic party,
and were told that that party has made
TINS natl Il what it is. DO they now e1-
nlt over the work of their hands2
we are happy to announce that in all
this gloom, the North Western Members
OF Congress are unit in the belief that
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