New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-14
THE pB0-SE.AyERY EEBELh!CN.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
WHAT THE REBELS SAY
OF TIE PROPOSED EVACUATION OF FORT SoMif
Will THEY PERMIT 1T

Will THEY PERMIT ii
Eres Our Own Correspondent - ,,c,
CHARLESTON, s. c., March TO- 1861.
tsoo,a On their way to church this morning
stopped TO discuss briefly in groups tD' 4! ''s ~"
,nor so;d 70 he from an authentic SOURCE, to The
,fyrct that the Government at Washington sell
ously contemplate Withdrawing MINOR Anderson
fran Fort Sumter and leaving the rebels masters
Of the field. Others did not 60 to church at ALL
but remained at bone or repaired to the iounsing-
places to talk over the game subject. The report
is received yariously; though OF course the gen
eral feeling is that of exulta'ion over TIE Ied-
eral Government. There are those VINO Wolia
rather fieht it out, confident tuat the rcsuis
would be the same. 4 great mary DOUBT ana
suspect that the report is hit ruse to cover an
attempt abOut TO be made to reinforce forI
SHUTTER. Having just finished reading the loan-
eursl they cannot credit the report. Unless the
new powers at Washington want fight on
large and bloody scale, aud civil war close on It's
heel IL must withdraw Anderson. The state OF
the case as it actually is, must be dealt with;
md should the report prove true II womb not
MT all usSonsh me- What has made the with
and on whem the responsibility should rest, are
questions that may be discussed when the sense
of humiliation shall have somewhat worn Oil
To say that BuchaDan's policy made it necessary
does not tell the whole story. His policy was
based more or lees on dispatches from Fort SUM-
ter. They harmCnzed. Aud now we baVe the
RESULT the report, now in eyerybOdy's mouth,
Is true.
The question occurs to my mind whether OF
not the rebels viii allow Major Anderson TO
evacuate the Fort, which means to withdraw or
retreat from it with what he can take with him,
leaving things behind in whatever condition he
may choose. VIII they not require the garrison
to capitulate to them on such terms as may De
asreed upOnl VIII they allow Government
vessel to enter the harbor to take Major Ander-
son anG Lis troops awny 4! Wal he be permitted
to spike jis guns, and take lrave by tie ears
Rather, will they not require bin to march his
command out of Font Sumter, after be has pulled
down his flag as prisoners, or on conditions
amounting to the same thing That the reoels
car, if they are so disposed impose terms That
viii make the giving up Of the Fort to them as
hamiliating as possible to the Federal Govern
ment, and all who do not Acknowledge JEFF.
Davis, there is no doubt. Whether they will be
disposed to do so, is another thing.
am confident that to nobody will the reported
step at Washington be- a matter of SO much as
tonishmeDt as 10 Gov. Pickens, Gen. Beauregard
and the other military leaders, unless it be the three
or four thousand men who stand all prepared for
the eight. That it would take place in very
few days has been the confident expectation. IL
has never entered their minds that it could be
ssserwise. OF course there sre those wiser than
ANYBODY else, who say, 81 told you so; l never
believed there would be fight" While there Ii
another set who look knowingly and remark tina
cit was fine game, web played; we never ha'
any quarrel with Major Anderson" As to tn
whole matter, bring us more reports, say /.