The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-04-25

for, even though it should be judged best
to confront the Secessionists on their from
tier with Half Million Men.
But the Rebels also can muster men
enough, while they are as yet far ahead
Of US in arms and munitions their weak
point is that Of Finance. With a notori-
Gus and abusive champion Of Reputation
at their head, they cannot borrow dollar
outside Of their own limits, and their first
loan of Fifteen Millions will exhaust the
resources OF their Banks. That sum will
just about suffice to put One Hundred
Thousand men in the field In fighting ar
ray it will be utterly exhausted before
they shall have been two months on foot.
Their Banks are already two-thirds broken,
and their notes selling slowly in our Nor
thern cities at fifty per cent, Of their face;
whence are their next funds to be obtain
ed? How are they to defend their two
thousand miles of mainly exposed sea-coast
and navigable inlets against an undisputed
naval ascendency without more men and
unlimited supplies of money?
+ 1t is a plain case that they must hurry
matters or succumb, and that they must
make an immediate dash at our weakest
point, the Federal Metropolis. If jeff
Davis and Beauregard are net on the Po-
tomac within sixty days, their rebellion
will stand exposed miserable failure.-
They must back their allies IN North Car
olina and Virginia by prompt display Of
force and daring, to which end all their
energies must first be directed. We do
not believe they Will even stop to reduce
Fort Pickens if it should be so held as to
compel them to besiege II in form. They
cannot aoaH; we can; and they will show
that they cannot, by a speedy advance on
Washington, uni, IS they shall despair Of
success, and desist from serious effort al
together.
It IS cheering, then, to know that Wash
ington viii be defended by ten thousand
men before the close of this week. and
that the number will be doubled the next,
and ouadrupled the week after. That
viii be enough until we have tidings that
Virginia has seeded and Jeff. Davis is
this side of the Roanoke; thenceforth the
number OF volunteers pouring into Wash
ington for Its defense viii be limited ouly
by the ability OF the Northern and West
ern Railroads to convey them.
We have a Civil War or our hands
there is no use in looking away from the
fact. For this year, the chief business of
the American people must be proving that
they have government, and that Free
dom is not another name for Anarchy
Hundreds Of thousands must be Temporal
rily drawn away from peaceful and pro
ductive avocations until this point is set
tled-drawn away just at the time when
Labor is wanted to sow and plant for the
ensuing harvest. But those who viii be
left behind must work the harder and
plant the more, since years OF war are
usually years OF dear bread. Farmers
employ all the help you can pay, and put
in all the crops for which you can season
ably and thoroughly prepare the ground,
for a season of scarcity is probably at
hand. Let each do his best toward pre-
pairing for it.
From the Pittsburg Post
The war has begun The first blow
has been struck The aspect of the ques-
ton is now wholly changed from what it
has hitherto been. Before, it was a po-
litical one, and all the conservative men,
deprecating the horrors of c,yil war. have
earnestly urged fair compromise, grant
ing to the South her just rights under the
Constitution. But the South has deter
mined not to wait for an adjustment Of
the difficulty lawfully and constitudoually.
but has struck the first blow, a successful
blow, but one which will unite the North
as one man for the Union. The author
ity Of the government of our country must
be maintained and supported by every
loyal American citizen. The wrongs of
the South are now matter of minor con-
sideration. The integrity Of the Govern
ment and the authority OF those who hold
its power is now the great object Of ma
tional consideration.
A civil war has actually commenced
between the sections OF this once glorious
Union. The heart OF every patriot bleeds
at this solemn truth. The true men of
the country have now great duty to
perform The preliminaries are over
revolution has taken arms and proceeded
to the last extremity now every man
who reveres the memory of Washington
must use his efforts and devote his wealth,
his personal services, and his life, if ne
cessary, in defending the integrity of the
Government which the patriots of the
revolution handed down as a PERPETUAL
BLESSING to their posterity.
However much we may deprecate the
political causes which have driven the
South to this insane madness-this fratri-