Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-02-14
n. o. WALLACE . Editor.
The ldes of March.

10 tuCStiou VI WV '""No
Of Lincoln, still continues to be the
Absorbing topic among the inbabit-
ants Of Washington city, who appre-
bend that the ceremony may be ac-
eompanied by baptism in blood
We have had various rumors Of mil
itary preparations 10 Maryland and
Virginia, with The supposed object
Of preventing the ceremony; but
whether for that purpose, or merely
to defend those States and The Dis
triot Of Columbia from the Eruption
OF Wide Awakes, which was announced
TO be in Attendance on the Black
Republican President, does not ap-
pear. Accounts now speak of mil
ilary organizations in Pennsylvania.
New York, and New Jersey; but
they axe understood to be intended
to preserve order, and defend The
rights of the border slave States
The telegraph says that Gen. Scott
has been advised that 1000 men at
Baltimore are ready to come TO
Washington at a moments notice TO
defend the District and capital. Gen.
Scott is understood TO be in laver Of
the preservation Of The Union, even
under the administration of Lincoln,
so long as be adheres to the consti.
tution and maintains the laws. In
the mean time the late Wide Awakes
have become Fast Asleep, or sunk
out of sight like the men Of Roderic
Dhu. The Chicago Times asks:
"Whare are those Wide wakes,
which, but short month ago, were
ready, willing and anxious TO march
agaius, the South. So long as Sc
cession was confined to words, these
valiant tyros were "eager for the
fray," and almost demanded to be led
against their countrymeu. Ten
thousand Wide-Awakes were t o
march 10 Washington to assist at the
Inauguration. They were to 60 into
immediate training, and we were
promised that they would become
soldiers of whom a nation might be
proud. Where are they now? now
that disunion has absolutely taken
plaoe-now tina. civil war with all OF
its ghostly borrots is staring with
glaring eyes at the country-where
are they? into what hole have they
erawled? Oh, valiant army! Oh,
dauntless will-o'- the-wisps! Brave
spiriisl Why have We subsidized?
Not lisp have they uttered 10 three
weeks. Ominous silence. Have
their lamps gone out? Let US hear
irom tbem-if but single mournful
whine.'
Evidently they will not come 10
fine. In the mean time, some of
the papers which wish that any col
lision may be avoided OR apprehension
Of one excited suggest the omission
of the usual public inaugural ceremo-
MES. The New York World, a mod.
crate Republican, and the National
Intelligencer, a Bell and Everett, pa.
per, take this course. They deny
that the usual ceremonial which has |
of late years attended the Inaugural |
ton Of the President and Vice Pres
ident, is essential 10 their legal 10. |
vesliture with office, aud say that so
far from Its being necessary that the
chief justice of the United States
should administer to these high func.
tionaries their oaihs of Office, any
justice of the peace or other person
authorized to administer oaths would
be equally competent TO act in this
capacity. They refer to the fact
that it was 10 The Island of Cuba (toj
which be had gone in search ofhealth)
that Vice President King, on the
fth of March, 1858, took the oath
If office, which oath, moreover, was
ldmistered at Matanzas by deputy
f the United States consul at the
'ort Of Havana, on the same day $,
bat the oath Of Office was admins "
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