The hydraulic press., 1861-04-27
WAR is UPON U.s.!

:" All Is OFON Us
Several times have we taken up our pen to
notice the exciting and terrible news received by
the late pony dispatch, without being able to use
it in the satisfactory accomplishment of our
purpose. We were agitated by the mingled and
conflicting emotions of heart-sickness, sorrow,
Indignation and anger. The news is therefore
given in detail that the reader may judge it for
himself-that it may be preserved as a perpetual
and blghting evidence against the monstrous
villains and traitors who have precipitated fra
tracidal war, and stained their guilty souls with
the innocent blood of patriots, which no repent
ance can atone. or arguments justify in the opin-
ion of mankind or before the impartial Court of
Heaven
The threatened blow of treason has at last
struck home to its mark. The Union is perma-
nently disrupted. Henceforth let no man from
the free States call South Carolinian his BROTH
er. The term is as distasteful to us row, as it
has ever been to the upstart pretenders of that
disloyal Commonwealth. They have never ceas-
ed to hate Northern men, and only because they
were of the North, which, to them extended a
fostering care that they accepted and enjoyed,
while their false hearts were filled with malice
and baseness towards its people.
But disguises and restraints have at last all
been cast aside. Brennus-lke, South Carolina
has kicked the beam, and is for war. In this she
will no doubt be joined by the entire Southern
Confederacy. War, then, let it be In this
conflict there are blows to give, as we'll as blows
to take; and we shall see who has the financial
sinews, the moral courage, the physical endur-
ance, the cumulative and accumulating armies
to stand up under its brunt. Charleston should
be razed to the ground-not one brick left stand
ing upon another to denote where its accursed
boundaries once desecrated American soil. Her
leading traitors should be declared such by Pres
idential proclamation, and when captured, hung
to the branches of the first tree, or the yard-arm
of the first ship to which they may be taken. No
ieniency to such dastards, say we. They have
inaugurated war, and in the course of it's vicisi-
which its sting envenoms.
There are now, as there were in the days of
the Revolution, but two parties to be recognised
the patriots and the traitors. With the latter,
no good citizen should hold social, business or
party converse. This is the issue to which things
must come at last. We are prepared to meet it
now. Indeed, for some time past, the secession
sympathisers have endeavored to make us real
ise their displeasure by withdrawing their pat
ronage from our paper. 1t has not amounted
to much, but indication of their disloyalty
to the Union, speaks volumes. We ask no sup
port from traitors, and hereafter are determined
extend none. They belong in sentiment and
feeling to another country. Let them return
there and fight its battles, instead of skulking
among those whom they affect to despise, while
reaping the advantages of good government
which they are basely plotting to overthrow.
Our Legislature should at once proceed to pass
an act more particularly defining treason, and
providing greater facilities for its stringent en-
forccment; for there are those among us who
require to be sienced by this kind of legal res
traint, and if they are not, to be punished for
their disloyalty.
Thus much we have felt it duty to write,
although under the pressure of strong feeling
which has perhaps rendered the matter some
what crude and inharmonious. But who could
remain unruffied when the country of his birth
and his affections was bleeding from the stabs
inflicted by fratricidal hands-when its flag is
plucked down and trampled upon in one of its
own fortresses, while that of the enemy usurps
its lofty place We are not endowed with that
philosophy which suggests equinimity under
such circumstances. On the contrary, we would
have blood for blood and every drop that's shed
by the aggressor, should be avenged by doubly
exacted retribution. Le1 ta{ioais becomes vir-
tue when practised on those who provoke the ne
cessity for its application.
In our use of the words "treason" and sstrai-
tors" we have no allusion to those conservative
Southern men among us, whose sympathies may
be strongly with the States which gave them
birth, but who deplore hostilities These terms
apply only to traitors in reality-those who JUS
tify the formation of the Southern Confederacy
and the assault upon Fort Sumter, because they
despise the Union, and wish to see it DESTROYED.
There are many such.
JOHN R. RIDGE, Eso.-In Sunday morning. s
issue of the Marysville Democrat appeared the
valedictory of John r. Ridge, announcing his
withdrawal from the editorial charge of that pa
per. The information was equally unexpected
and unwShed for The Democrat ,,ndor tho