The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-01-10
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RSchmend. Had. JANUARY 10. 1854.
We find the following article in the New
York Tribune, and with the editor Of that
paper, we ask els compromise now 10
orderl"
IL Compromise In Order3
I'VE ask this question of sober. patriotic.
conservative citizens, who do not regard
Government rs q farce and are unwilling to
see that one which they love and have sworn
TO uphold run exclusively for the benefit OF
traitors or stock jobbers. Let them but give
. glance at the more conspicuous facts which
indicate our present position:
1t is q fact that South Carolina has. Of
her own mere volition, assumed to dissolve
the Union which makes ne q nation, and
has declared herself utterly separated from
and allen to that Union.
II is fact that she has sent Commission
ers to Washington to treat with the Federal
Executive for the surrender to her OF the
Federal forts in Charleston HaIbor and
their armament. and of the light houses. DC,
along her coast.
IT is . fact that she has assumed to own
and control the Federal Custom House in
Charleston and the Federal post Offices
dotting her soil.
1t is . fact that, purely because Major
Anderson, in command Of the forts AZORES aid,
has seen fit to concentrate his sixty or seventy
men in that one OF those forts most remote
from the City. and least exposed to capture
by assault from the adjacent n ain land, the
rebellious State has proceeded to take mill
tary possession of the residue Of those forts,
the half dozen Federal soldiers lett therein
having quietly retired at the approach of an
overwhelming force.
II is fact that Fort Sumter is at this
moment substantially invested by the Seces-
sionists, who are on the point Of opening
ire on it, if they lave not already done SC
they knowing that its guns are not halt
mounted nor nearly half manned, and no.
ping to reduce il before it can be relieved.
1t is fact that. at the very outset Of til,
rebellion, long before Major Andersen had
made any movement with regard 10 II, the
Federal Arsenal in Charleston. obtaining
many thousand stand Of Federal arms. WAS
seized by the insurgents, who stopped the
transfer Of ammunition thereirom under Maj
As order and compelled his men to return
without any.
1t is fact that the Federal Collector and
Postmaster have fraternized with The rebels,
while the Federal District Judge has
signed and become one OF their leaders. and
that the Federal flag has been hauled down
and the Disunion banner raised instead not
only on the captured forts but on the Federal
Custom House, Arsenal. and Post office.
1t is a tact that the Carolina Plenipoten
iiaries in Washington impudently protested.
against Maj. Anderson's removal from fort
in which the rebels could have wiped ou.
his little band in twenty minutes to one
where it will bother them to take him in six
weeks, and threatened to .break IF the ne
gotiatiors!" if he were not forthwith ordered
back to the place where they could easily
kill him.
II is fact tina: the emi>saries Of .outh
Carolina are busily fomenting rebellion in
nearly or quite every Slave State, with in
tent to split the Union through the center,
and make one of their own, into which
none but Slave States shall be admitted.
AT - fact that telegrsphic reports OF the
seizure of the United States forts on the
coast Of North Carolina by the secessonisa
Governor OF that State. acting on his naked
without whisper Of author
ny from any quarter. were received with
fu'sC 6ShoioA SiOoVhCc tuS SouH
Try. Though the deed was not done, tho
report doubtless foreshadowed what is con-
templated and intended.
1t is fact that universal suspicion and
current rumors affirm the existence of
wide spread conspiracy of Southern traitors
to seize the City Of Washington by military
force about the LIST OF March next. inauguratc
a Pro Slavery insurgent Government there
IN, and prevent by arms the Inauguration OF
President Lincoln there on the 4th.
In view Of all these facts. we ask con-
sentative, law respecting citizens, RepubIi
Geo or Democratic. North or South. is this
nme enr compromise? Can you conscicn.
tiously say Mat it would be right now TO !,
make concessions "a faction and treason?
For nothing is clearer ,Aan this: What
ever shall now be done in tile way Of con-
cession to Slavery will be hailed and
exulted over as yielded by Northern fears
TO Southern threats of secession and civil
war. Men and breth. en-! can We really
Afford-acting not for day. but for all time
to proffer this bounty on rebellion and
treason?