The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-02-08
I'hr Cennirt Appronrhlnr

tue CCn"ict Approaching.
Tho following Is from the New York
TdGSs's special correspondent at
Charleston
CuiRLrsrov, s. c., Jan. ~.
Tho town has rcsumod the most bel
hgcrcnt aspect, aud it is generally ropor.
It'd that Judge Robcrison's mission of
peace has bccn summorily rejected snd
thut lIHync, not having succeeded in ma
kiEg the Federal Government withdraw
iis forces hero, the Httuck on Fort Sum
ter will be made speedily. This com
firms the impression J have often expires
cd 20 you Of the inmincnce Of the cincr-
gcncy, aud e the fertility Of tho social.
I'd negotiation at Washington. which
wRs only n; ctcd IN order 10 gain the
time necessary for erecting now batteries
and for comrl, ting all other preparations.
The slave oligarchy will soon stand
openly hrrnycd IN fierce battle against the
Federal forces, nnd the fret gun fred NJ
Sumter will light a connagration all over
the country. Seeing Virginia and the
other border States hesitate, South Caro-
lima wishes to secure their accession 10
the Southern Couicdcracy by baptism
of blood, and st tie same time seeing the
'cccding States asserting their influence
in the embryo empire, she is anxious TO
secure her own supremacy a. the ngita.
tor and leader of the revolution by soun-
ding the tocsin OF war within her own
borders
The taking oC Fort Sumter will prove
a most difficult and formidable task: but
the siege buinhsrdmcut will rouse ihc
spirit ul the whole country, and enlist
the symrHlhics Of the different parties In
the conflict, in proportion a. their fsvor-
ties will he exposed 10 DANCE. The chief
object is not w much tho capture of the
fleet and the massacrcing uf the garrison,
hut rather the creation of an excitement,
which shall seal the doom Of tie Union,
the Inauguration Of reign n terror, un-
der the innuCrcr Of which the still wa
ycripg States will bo cocrccd into Sccet-
siunism. aud the explosion Vt passions of
hatred agUins, tho rising Northcrn pow
cr, so as 20 give to Wise, Floyd and 9th.
er most infamous Of the traitors, an op-
portunity to ineito the populScc 10 the
seizure Of the Capital, and to proclaim
there the formation " the now Southern
Empire; this, depend upon IL, is the great
goal Of Southern ambition This will
initiate a war, before the horrors oil
which the Imagination VI the most reso-
lulc may well rccoil; worse still, the
Southern forces will be exposoi rventu-
silly To the frc Of two nrmirs that Of the
ltcemen of the North, determined to an
nihilate this reign ofignoriny and shame,
aud the army Of the slaves, whom Eotuul
war will induce TO the attack of their
masters
All the other incilonA Hcrc dwindle
into insigniiicOnco compared with tho ar-
preaching eoillct, and the North viii soon
be made 10 understand th.t itwants gen
erals and soldics for lis armies, and not
commissioners and dcputirs for its con-
vCntious. Forces should hc In readiness
in the Free Statcr, mud to be concentrated
II need be. by land aud wntcr around
Washington. An ndvice To tho contrary
Is imhccility An advice e. the contrary
will take away from The Federal Govern
mont the opportunity oi asserting its
power against its asspilNnts.
The eyes Of mankind now rest upon
the frcrmon Of America. VIII they be-
come the slaves Of the Shareholders -
III t is the question; aud the sooner il is
apprchended the better for the fame and
honor Of America. All tho compromi-
sing politicians of the North hlyu only
tended to I'LL the south with additional
contempt for what they consider push
luminous people, whose ouly ohioct they
say. is TO mako money, and to, lcs the
dtv,l take the hindmost All their SEN.
mons, writer's, lecturers, aud other bun.
eombers notwithstanding, The time has
come for the NorthoTRcrs to show thom-
selves in their real character of American
frccncn, ready TO b0ttlc aud to die. il
need be, for the defense Of their country.