Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-20
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Who Reann rhn XVnri

1t is astonishing to see with what bold.
ness these lSecessiOnists speak and write of
Lincoln's war, and of the attempt of the.
Black Republican Administration to subju-
gate the South, and of their wicked inYa-
sion of the sacred soil of the South A
few months having elapsed since the war
was iuaugurRted, aud many having forgot
dates aud facts, they stand up now, with
the assurance of Old Nick, and assert that
Lincolds declared the war, in violation of
the Constitution, and that be ism vile
nSurper and tyraut. And all who deny
the truth of their false assumptions are
Abolitioutsts, and enemies to the South.
We ask candid men to look into this
matter calmly, andsee what tue facts are.
AS soon as it was ascerta ned that Lin
coin was elected, South Carolina called
Convention and seeded from the Union
In that Convention, her leading men, such
as Keitt, Rhett, Spratt, and others, openly
avowed that they had been lAboring to
overthrow the Government ever since they
first came into public life, and that the
dissolution of the Union had been the stu
dy and desire of their lives a
Meanwhile, the Southern members of
Buchauan's Cabinet, Floyd, Cobb, and
Thompson, began to arrange matters for a
dissolution, one year i'll advance of Lin
coln's clection-trhnsaOrtin the arms of
the Government to Southern Forts, and
the munitions of war, with view to order
their seizure, when they should conclude
to strike. Southern Senators were holding
on TO their seats in Congress, and in night
canruses, working to overthrow Il Govern
ment they had taken an odLk 10 uphold, aud
in the dayytime were pretending to support.
the Constitution, and act as priry counsel
to Buchanan, toisupport the Constitution
and the Laws. AS soon as they could
rush several Cotton States out ofithe Uu-
ion, by false dispatches, aud call n Com
ventiUn of self.constituted Delegates at
Montgomery, they organize boguslGoy-
ernment-elected its officers-nnd Mt once
went to raising an immense Army. Six
Thousand of their troops congregated at
Charleston, to assault and take the Gov
erument property in Fort Sumter, when
the Government had only force of ssUgl.
ty men, for rpeaeenble pu poses, such as ta-
king care of the Government property.-l
Pryor, of Virginia, visited there, made
public speech to the citizens aud soldiers,
and told them to attack the Fort. and spill
some blood, for that was necessary to in
duce Virginia to go out. They did make
the assault and the Fort fell. Previous to
this, they had fired into the s.Star of the
West" crippled hes in the Charleston Har-
bor, aud boasted that the Lincoln Govern
ment had not courage to dtfendclrer prop
erty. On the heels of these and other
outrages, Walker, their Secretary of War,
at Montgomery, made n public speech on
the street, and avOwed that it wns their
purpose to take Washington ut once, and ]
that they would plant the Confederate flag
upon the Capitol in sixty days from that
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All this time, T.incoln's Government had
done nothing, not even what it was sworn
to do. The people, North aud South,
called upon the Government TO defend its
rights and their property, and then il was
that Lincoln issued his Proclamation. We
are not all fools in the South, and hence
we recollect these ftcts; and as long as
we recolIect them, we must censurc the
Southern traitors who iuaugurated the war.