The hydraulic press., 1861-05-25
IN A NUTSHELL.

In A NUT.S III ELI
Those who censure the National Administra-
ton for its efforts to put down rebellion, and
attempt to fix the onus of the present war upon
the people of the North, or, as they term loyal
citizens, Black Republicans and Abolition
ists," seem to have forgotten
lst, That secession, according to the confess
sion of Rhett and Yancy, was thing in process
of Matching for thirty years.
I'd, That South Carolina has, during all that
time, been striving to bring the result about, and
finally accomplished it, of her own voluntary
act
Sd, That the Democratic party, by agreeing
upon a nominee at Baltimore, could have elected
him, and removed all excuse for secession.
4th, That the Baltimore Convention was
broken up with the express intention of securing
Lincoln's election, and affording miserable
pretext to dissolve the Union.
9Th, That the South went into the Presiden-
tial contest with candidate of their own selec-
ton, and were bound by every honorable rule of
political action to abide the decision of tie ma
jority.
9th, That at the time South Carolina passed
her secession ordinance, the Government had
never done single act that could be tortured
into an assault upon her rights, or those of the
"peculiar institution"
7th, That wholesale system of plunder and
theft was commenced against the mints, custom
houses, forts, arsenals, munitions, vessels, and
other property of the United States, which was
suffered without resentment by the Government.
Sth, That Northern citizens were expelled
from Southern soil, lashed, tarred and feath-
cred, imprisoned, and in some instances hung,
for expressing loyal sentiments to country
which demanded common love and obedience
from citizens of every State in the Union.
9th, That the Fourth of July was abolished,
the Constitution reviled, the laws of Congress
set at defiance, public officers stripped of their
authority, and the flag of the Union plucked
down and trampled in the dust
10th, That the first blood was shed, and Fort
Sumter captured, by South Carolina, acting un-
der instructions from the military commandant
of the Southern Confederacy, when it was we'll
known that in two days more the necessity for
such an extreme act would have been entirely
obviated by peaceable surrender of the fort.
18th, That threats loud and frequent were
made, that the flag of the Southern Confederacy
would soon be planted upon the dome of the Ma
tional Capitol.
18th, That war, criminal, fratracidal, having
been deliberately planned, was thus maliciously
inaugurated by the Southern Confederacy, from
which there was no escape by the Government,
except with craven, abject, base, cowardly sub
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temptible in the eyes of all loyal citizens and a
convenient football, to be kicked and buffeted
by every Power in Europe.
Notwithstanding these things, there are those
who cry out against the Government for simply
seeking to preserve its existence; who complain
of the gigantic measures it has placed on foot to
recover its stolen property and enforce its man.
dates; who express deep sympathy for the trail
tors who sought, invited, precipitated and COM
PEELED the very state of affairs which now exists
who have no word of censure for the rebels !;
who see everything to blame in the Government !;
who preach treason, and would stir up sedition
among us, if the sympathy of their false hearts
found an echo where they could wish to lodge
it. But, thank God, they few among us, and
tney are mdTkeQ. lie Qdy VI SCOIu anu luulS-
nation will come. They had better prepare a
refuge from its fury.
NoBLY DoNE.-Columbia Hill has redeemed
itself nobly from the stigma cast upon it by the
secession movement against the PRESS. Five
discontinuances of papers in the town and i'm
mediate neighborhood, were aHits enemies could
effect, while the friends of the PRESS, in the
same region, have sent us ten subscribers
within the fortnight, every one of whom paid in
advance. This is two to one, in fact but a
much larger proportion, as Mr.. Turveydrop
would say, in weight of character"
Snow SToRM.-Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day were raw, cold, disagreeable days. Sunday
night there was tolerably heavy frost, which
however, did but little, if any damage, and it was
confidently expected that would end the matter
How great, then, was the surprise of our good
people to discover the ground white with snow
when they looked out from their sleeping apart
ments Tuesday morning, May 2lst! Many o
the young fruit trees were bowed down with the
weight of the snow while others were broken NJ