The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-07-27
miscellaneous.

| OParson Brownlow s paper. The Knor
nile Wing. after a long absence has agar
turned up. We clip tho following from thu
last number. THE Parson shows as much
fight as ever, and gives most excellent
answer to the gentlemen of the long car cd
fraternity in our very midst. who in defiance
ofall truth and history. sill stoutly asser,
that the Government began the war With
them, a lie we'll stuck to is considered as good
As the truth.
who Began the War;
1t r. astonishing to see with what boldness
these Secessohists speak and write of Lncon's
war. and Of tie atieApt of the Black Rcpub.
lican Administration to su.jugate the South
and of their wicked invasion of the sacred
soil Of the South A few months having
elapsed since the war was inaughrated, and
many having forgot dates and facts. they
stand mp now, with the assurance Of Old
Nick, and assert that Lincoln declared thu
war. in violation Of the Constitution, and
that he is vile usurper and tyrant. And
all who deny the truth of their false assump-
tions are Abolitionists, and enemies 10 the
South.
We ask candid men to look into this mat.
ter calmly. and see what the facts are. AS
soon as 1t was ascertnincd that Lincoln was
elected. South Carolina called Convention
and seeded from the Union. In that conycn.
ton. her Lending men. such as keitt, Rhett,
Spratt, and others. openly avowed that they
had been laboring to overthrow the Govern
Inent ever since they first came INTO public
life. and that the dissolution Of the Union
had been the study and desire of their lives
Meanwhile, the Southern members of Buch-
anan's Cabinet, Floyd. Cobb and Thompson,
began to arrange matters for a dissolution,
one year in advance of Lincoln election
transporting the arms Of the Government to
Southern Forts. and the munitions Of war,
with view to order their seizure when they
should conclude to strike. Southern Senators
were holding on to their seats III Congress.
and in night caucuses. working to overthrow
u Government they had taken an ou,h to up.
hold, and in the day time were pretending to
support the Constitution, and act as privy
counsel to Buchanan, to support The Constitu'
zion and the Laws. AS soon as they could
rush several other Cotton States out OF the
Union by false dispatches, and call Conven.
ton of sclfconstiutei Delegates at Mont.
gomery, they organized bogus Government
elected its oihcers-and at once went to rails
ing an immense Army. Six thousand Of
their troops congregated at Charleston, to
assault AID take the Government property IN
Fort Sumter, when the Government had only
force of serentesn men. for peaceablc pur.
poses, such as taking care Of the Government
.hroperty. Pryor, of Virginia, visited there
made public speech to ,iiic citizens and sol.
ders, and told them to attack the Fort, and
spill some blood. for that was necessary to
induce Virginia to 60 out. They did make
the assault, and the Fort fell. Previous to
this. they had fired into the "Star Of the
West. crippled her in the Charleston iarbor,
and boased that the Lincoln Government,
had not courage to defend her properly. On
the heels of these and other outrases. 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 Confed'
e,atc Flag upon tie Capitol in sixty days from
that date
All this time, Lincoln's Government had
done nothing. not even what it was sworn III
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 as long as we recollect
them, We must cenSure the Soutnern traitors
who inauglratcd the war