The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-03-21
F ort Sumter---The Proposed
Evacuation.
WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY
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Proposed EvacI alton Of Fort sumter.
"This will never dor is the spontane.
ous exclamation of nine tenths Of the
Northern people. as il is bruited abroad
that the administration intends TO give
orders for the Withdrawal Of Major An
derson's command from Fort Sumter
With what face can we dcvour the lauda.
tons which we so freely bestowed on that
gallant officer when he electrified The
country by planting himselfio that strong
iold? What will become of the pride,
the p@ans, the exultation. ,he T Deuns
LGudamus. Which followed the aking DOS
session Of that fort withom orders, when
the first important even under the new
administration is IT'S evacuation in conse.
4aence of orders? II the current repor.
shall prove to lie well founded, and the
administration has really determined to
give an order so humila;ing, we are bound
to believe that there are good reasons for
a proceeding so unexpected. and, to every
man of spirit, 50 distastiul. 1t is diff
cult to reason on a subject that so srirs
the blood but, if we can be calm enough
to reason. it lie doubtless our duty to look
al it from the same point Of view under
which it presents itself 10 the men who ere
clothed with the responsibilities Of power.
AS we lack the detailed information on
wi ich they will act. we can only coniec-
.urR tie motives which may have ilflu.
enced Presd4nt Lincoln aud his Cabinet
in this mortifying and most unwelcomc
decision.
Major Anderson's stock of provisions
will not hold out more than fifteen or
twenty days, anG although lie is now per-
mitted to procure, day by day, few tee.
essaries from Charleston. this permission
may any hour be withdrawn hy Governor
Pickens. Under these circumstances uu-
lrss reinforcemyuts and supplies can be
put into Sumter, il clearly ought 10 be
evacuated. The administration cannot
Intend nor does the country demand, that
handful Of brave men shall be left to
die Of starvation. Tie practical questions,
then for the Cover lmenl 10 determine are:
first is the reinforcement Of Fort Sumter
practicable! and, secondly can it be rein.
forced within twenty days! A negative
answer to either Of these questions would
not only cxon-rate the administration
from blame, but make evacuation its clear
and imperative duty 10 the brave mon
with the fort.
AS to the possibility of reinforcing
Sumter 10 tine to save the garrison from
starvation, the opinion of civilians is Of
little value. ltis the duty Of the admin
ist,ation on professional point like this,
to defer TO the opinions OF competent mil.
itary mon. If Gen. Scott and other mill
tafy advisers Ct the administration say
that the government cannot, with the
means at its disposal, undertake to
strengthen Major Anderson with any like
lihood Of success, it must give orders for
the evacuation, however painful aud
humiliatiug lfsuch disgracefuI dsabili-
ty exists. it must consist in the small
ness, distance, and prospective deserIious
of the regular army, aud in the failure Of
Congress at its late session, to pass Mr..
Slanton's ill authorizing the President to
employ the militia, and accept the SER
vices Of volunteers. The administration
cannot reasonably be blaEed lor not un-
derlaking to accomplish imposSibliiies
I, - not 10 bIor,o g., H. TouIte f,ilnro,
and imlecile mismanagement Of its pred.
ecessor in power, nor foi the shOrtcom-
ings OF Congress. Mr. Lincoln's admin.
islration is not to be blamed because il
cannot turn back the hands nm the dial.
plate, and deal with the question as il
might and ought TO have been dealt with
four months ago. The late administra-
ton failed to reinforce the forts VI Charles
ton harbor, in disregard of the advice Of
Gen. Scott, and the urgent entreaties OF
Gen. Wool, at time when reinforcement
was both easy ard would Lave been a
powerful check on the progress of seces'
sion. Reinforcements have teen render
ed moro difficult and less valuable BY ev.
cry days delay since, ill at length the
holding of Fort Sumter has ceased to be
of much value, except for its moral ctiec
Upon the country. Not, by any means
that it is light thing for the country tc
: be disg,aced and humila,td, and made tc
blush for the m5ecility Of its government
But if Buchanan had strengthened The
Charleston forts when Gen. Scott frs
advised it, he would not only lave saved
the national honor, but have retained
stronghoHs OF great strategic value. Blu
we fear all Is now lost, because Mr.. Lin
coins administration dit not commence
till the 4th Of March. May Gcd aver
the disgrace, if it be possible; and if no
enable the county to pro6S by the dis
cipine Of humiliation.
From the New York Tribune.
FORT SUMTER
In all the detection, treaclery, am
madness of these mad times, there ha
been in the conduct of Major Arderso
and the enthusiastic appreciation whic
has been universally accorded to it, th
one bright spot in the surrounding darA
ness, the one cheering proof that nationi
honor is still sensitive the appeal Of
brave and manly action Surely, W
need not despair of the Republic whe
neither the cnervating influence Of a Ion
8 course OF prosperity and peHte, neilht
the perricious habit Of long submissic
to an order SO persistent and aggressi,
as the propagandists Of Slavery, nor II
r long established rule of party disciplir
the severest ever known in the history
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