Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1861-01-25

The Charleston papers IF Wednesday, al
though containing no important details of the
supposed movement ard warlike prepar-
taous going on there, h.sse'some have SONS
editorial remarks Of considerably significance.
We make the iollowinge tract:
FORWARD.
We would suggest TO cur people by advice
from high quarters, that 1t would be well they
should place bur little reliance in dispatches
from Washington tending to induce the i'm
preston that pacific negotiation would render
further military exertions on our part unne-
cessary On the contrary. let Us hasten for
ward ID our works of defense with all the ce
leriiy and energy that can be brought to bear
upon our strong points. Let there be no re-
taxation: bur rather redoublcd efforts. We
know not what an hour may bfsng forth,
fraught with lheand death tfealy
THE ATTEMPT 10 COLLEGE, REvESUe WILL
CREATE WAR
The State Of South Carolina is now an in.
dependent republic, or she is not. South
| Carolina claims aud assert that she isindepen-
dent, and thai she will maintain it This be-
! ing the fact to attemptto collect her revenue
L 10 olAApll ttuTs ~ - - HOStttS bASCA1Nr. IL
| is am armed invasion of her waiers IL Is
war, aud nothing but open war. Neither
Yankee pedlers nor federal politicians, nor
military braggadocio, nor cabinet machina-
tions, can make it anything else bnt COR
The time has past for this child's play, hair
splitting, aud word quibbling. Facts must
be faced. An OUTRAGED and long oppressed
people must be faced War or peace must
be faced, and must be faced promptly. The
people of South Carolina are an independent
people, or they are not Any act committed
by other power against their Independence IS
irar. Why iced ulen waste words in quib-
bling and tYiddle2 IF men or cabinets mean
war, war they shall have, by its right name,
and in its full significance. But let them not
deceive themselves, or others, blythe vain sup
! position thattbey are playing push-pins with
idiots or Children; or that it is all game of
shutting politicians, where treachery and
trickery areo decide the result.
The insoltnt assumptions OF the Northern
| people may laugh to scorn alike our rights
1 and our <powsr to maiatain them. We shall
not pause to define the one nor TO protect the
other. Thetilne has long since past for the
former course: the future must decide the
i latter point We are privately OF opinion
that we know what are our rights and pub
licly We Intend to enforce them. Those who
attempt to violate them will make war upon
US, aud will be met with war Mercury.
THE UNITED STATES sUB-TREAsuRy AT
CHARLESTON
Asthe honor Of'our State Is concerned, and
it is due to her friends everywhere that they
should know the truth of the matter, we now
! state that neither the Governor Of South;
Garelsna, n5s otlier pawOrser authority Of
law, has eyei eized or made use of the fnndy
of the sub-treasury in this city. We further
statethat the amount of the sub treasury when
Soulh Carolina seeded was not the pitiiul
sum of $4,000, as at first reported. nor the
sum of 81 600, as the Now York Tribune
now reportsit, but it was sT50,000, which
amount has been reduced, in the usual man
ner, by payments, according to the law of the
United States, to about $4,000. This sum
is still in the sub-treasury to the credit of the
United States treasurer and the disbursing
agents. South Carolina has not touched a
cent of this money. and her forbearance in
that respect is the more remarkable because =
large amount Of SIS due to her own citizens
for the outfit aud provisions of Fort Sumpter,
for payment Of which they vainly besiege the
office doors of the sub-treasurer that officer
having no power TO pay them without an or
der from the authorities at Washington.
Mercury.
Il Z r.