Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-03-15
The Tasks before Them.


entered upon the duties Of their De
partmen,s, and begin TO realize the
actual dangers and difficulties Of the
country. They find matters much
worse than they even feared-;nuch
worse than the country generally is
aware Of.
A merchant whose stock of goods
is exhausted, whose clerks have pecu-
lated upon him, whose assets are
worthless, whose accounts are derang
ed, who is deeply in debt, aud whose
credit and standing are everyway i'm
paired-is fit representative Of our
Government, passing from the hand
of Buchanan to Lincoln. Or it may
be likened TO a Farm whose fences
are down, stock starved and unruly,
implements broken and lost, soil ey-
hausted and covered with pcrnicious
weeds, and going to ruin generally.
Such is our condition as Nation
and the best Merchant, or the best
Farmer, can no more restore their
credit and prosperity in day, than
our Administration can undo past
evils aud put the Nation again upon
the track in one year.
The President and Cabinet find the
Departments and Offices dcmoralized
by the presence of ScccssioniSts o. the
worst sor:-men acting merely as
spies to betray the Government into
the hands of its enemies! Many of
these are sccret-and go much the
worse for that. They must be ex-
pelled-for there can be nothing done
in safety in the knowledge of these
Jesuitical emissaries, who cheat the
very hand that feeds them, and rob
the Treasury as in the case of the In
dian Trust Bonds. The disease of
Disunion has SO deeply infected the
Capital, that an honest, patriotic Uni
Onist hardly knows who TO trust there,
in or out Of office.
The Army and Navy arc found
as Floyd, Cobb q Co. tauniingly
boast-scattercd over the World, so
as to be as much as possible out Of the
way when needed TO protect their
home against the nefarious plots of
the Disunionists. Gen. Scott had TO
withdraw soldiers from distant posts,
and endanger other points, to get
men enough at Washington to save
the Federal Capital from the schemes
laid to take it. These designs, he,
by his energy and foresight, thwarted,
and thus ayerted civil WARRIOR the
Freemen would not be robbed of their
Capital by the modern Buccaneers.
Two-thirds of the officers of Army
and Navy are Southerncrs-many OF
them honorable men, but others as
false and treachcrous as Satan him
self. How many more will yet per-
vert their powers against the country
that gave them honor and fed them
generously until now, none can tell.
The Treasury is deficient, in view
of the demands upon it and the with
holding Of its dues in cash received
and customs accruing from the South.
BY the time the Books are settled up,
and facts known, it will probably ap-
pear, that One Hundred Millions of
Dollars Of Indebtedness are to be pro-
vided for, (whereas, Buchanan came
in with an overhowing Treasury
Happily, it is believed the new Tariff
will not bc long in showing, practi-
cally, the benefits all parties hope
from it.
One of the most mortifying facts
and one TO which the Cabinet have
first directed their attention-is, the
wants Of Major Anderson at Fort
Sumter. His prompt and patriotic
checkmating of the schemes of the
Disunionists Of Charleston, has drawn
the eyes end hearts of all patriots to-
wards him, and he has done much TO
cool the Secession fever. Buchanan's
Administration continually published
that he needed no assistance" and
thus lullcd the public mind into a
false security, while the Carolinians
have been hedging him up in every
way, and cutting off all hopes of es-
cape or long continued successful re-
sistance. The feeble effort Of The
Star of The West 10 aid him Was not
renewed, and the enemy have employ
ed every day in enclosing HMM their
net. IL now leaks out from Washing
ton, that Anderson DOES need fuel
provisions and men-and that, in all
human probability, be can not hold
his post for many days longer. The
anxiety Of Gen. Scott, and of the Ad-
ministration, in the case, exceeds that
of any other subject before them. 1t
is not supposed that any wooden
ships 1--WE have none iron-cased) can
run the gauntlet Of half dozen bat
terics TO reach Sumter from the Ocean.
A land attack would require 10000
men, with the best materials. The
whole U. S. Army could not supply
that want, and the Government has
no authority to raise force in such
an emergency. What shall be done 2
IS the anxious inquiry. Secretary
HoLr justly says-and the candid
world will agree with him-lhat the
present Administration is in no re.