Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-03-23
4ss5a30. A, From the New York Tribune.
THE POSITION OF MAJOR ANDERSON.

Sta; The -entire.force Of enlisted men under Ter ,ba
mman OF Major Anderson, is about sixty-fouv.
Allowing Tor the various details, not moro than
enough men to work rapidly and continuously
four guns are lef'. Working an e~ight-inch co!um-
bad is exceedingly %fatigping. owing to the great
weight Of both gun and shot, and the men require
frequent relief Now, the FIRE Of four gun would
have to be maintained steadily for several DAYS. 10.
have any great effect on Fort Moultrie or tho bat
teries at q distance, of mile or moro from Fort
Sumter. The power Of resistance Of the irou-clad
battery on Cummings Point, twelve hundred
yards distant, is yet an unsolved problem; but
should it prove shot-proof, it would Of itself occu-
Ply the entire attention of the garrison, leaving the
gnnners at Fort Moultrie iEee 10 practice with
their columbiads at the embrasures of Fort Sum
ter, and the mortar batteries to burn the barracks
and drive the men from the barbette guns. /,
could scarcely be expected that no one in the fort
should be hurt, while there is not a man to be
spared. When, two weeks after the occupation
OF For; Sumter, the Star of the West was driven
away, Major Anderson gave as an excuse for
standing still. while the American flag was ont
ragged and the lives Of $50 men were putin ieeopar.
dy under bis eyes, that he had no guns mounted
~ 'Ho attC VI IuOrTlb l6lanQ.
Yet, before that time, Mr.. Holt says the Major
had advised the War Department that he had no
need Ofre-enfOrcements Did he, with his;oyes thus
rudely opened to his weakness. change the tenor
Of his Dispatcher No the inyariablo burden
he's been the same: 81 can maintain myself here
without re-enforcements." He knew well. no one
better, that Mr.. Buchanan would clutch eagerly
at any pretext to avoid offending the secessionists,
aud took care to furnish him The above excuse.
while the enemy built battery after battery for the
express purpose Of cutting off Communicates with
the SEN, and making the reinforcement Of the fort
a difficult and, probably, bloody enterprise. Now
he writes to the new Administration, exageera-
ting the dangers Of his position, stating that his
supplies are running short, and that it will take
lO,000 men to open the communication, with the
evident purpose Of frightening the President into
giving up the fOrt. Ills whole course has 80 plain
ly shown a far greater sympathy with, and desire
to be useful to, the insurgents, than any endeavor
to do his duty to the United States, that there Is
no mum who would be more warmly greeted Ia
Charleston than he. Yet this man, who stood
calmly by and saw the Star Of The West fred on,
who has, day after day, for two months, seen men
and munitions Of war, to be used against his coun-
Try, pass close under his guns without a remOn-
STRANGE or a threat whose whole course has Ten
ded only to make the surrender Of the fort sure
and bloodless; who thinks the demands Of ahe
Gulf States just, and sympathizes with them in all
their acts; this man, II Is now proposed to raise
over the heads Of1fftS OF his seniors, many Of them
tried and capable officers, and promote three
grades to the rank Of Brigadier- General. As this
will keep up the old proportion Of threo Southern
Generals to one Northern, our co%mpromisers and
submissicnistc will now have a fne opportunity to
save the Union once more. -
one Vine SEES the FACTS.