The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1861-09-20

an order, and it was rumored that the Cab
iDst had succumbed to the pressure of the
Governors, the mails were stopped to and
from Fort Sumter. Among the letters
seized was one from Major Anderson te
President Lincoln, discussing the details O.
the plan of re-enforceme ent forwarded tc
him from Washington by those messen-
gers. Our authorities were thus made
aware of the breach of faith toward them,
and of the details of the plan itself. Then
came the special messenger of the Presi>
dent, announcing that he intended re vic,
tualing the fort, quietly, if permitted. for
chilly, if resisted: then the account of the
sailing of the feet from New York. The
fort was at once attacked, and taken With
out awaiting their arrival. The attack
was not made until the offer of negotiation
and peaceful arrangement had been reject.
ed, and until the United States Govern.
ment was in the act Of sending an armed
force. But it is of little nse now to in.
quire on whom the responsibility properly
rests, we have the war on US, with all its
loss of life, and long train of evils of ev>
cry kind. 1t is the latest, perhaps the
strongest, instance history gives us, guam
parue sopientia regitur naundus Here
was country, vast, populous, prosperous,
and blessed in its material interests, if any
country was. The South producing cot
ton, tobacco, sugar, rice and naval stores
for the supply, as far as needed, of the
North and the North west, to the value of
perhaps s5o.00o,o00 a year, and export
ing to foreign countries over $220,000,-
600; the North West producing chiefly
grain and supplying the North and the
South, and when the European crop. fail
ed, having, as last Winter, large Euro
pean market the North manufacturing
and supplying, the South and the North
West and struggling to compete with for
eign goods abroad, and doing the trading
and commerce Of the South and the North
West. -- s#
Could the material interest of all the
sections be more harmoniously and advap-
tageously combined than in this Union,
where each was free to develop to the
fullest extent, those branches of industry
in which it could excel, and could draw
from the others those products which it
needed, but could not produce as well as
they could. Even a child could see the
vast benifts to all from this mutual CO op.
Grafton. No wondof that in all material.
interests the country was prospecting to an
extent that intoxicated Us and astonished
the world. We claimed to Be preeminaesn-
tly sagacious in money matters, The
Yenkees, believe, ran ked next after the
Chinese in keenuess in business yet they
especially, with. an incoDceivable blind
ness, have originated, fostered, and propa-
gateda fanaticaT party spirit which has
brought about a result foretold from the
beginning, both North and South, as the
inevitable consequence of its success
Taking up Anti Slavery, making It reli
gious dogma, and caffryfirg it into politics,
they have broken up the Union. While
it was mere intellectual opinion they
might discuss it as they pleased; they
might embrace it as they did any other
ism. Even their virulent abuse and miss
representation we scarcelr needed, ,provid-
ed they did not obtrude them on US at
home. They might even carry it into
religion, and split !. their associations and
churches on it., We, as Catholics, might
everywhere smile at this additional at
tempt to reform " the teachings Of our
Savior. And the Protestants, South,
could have churches and associations of
their own But when they carried it into
politics, gaining one State Government af-
ter another, and defining their special
policy by unconstitutional laws and every
mode of annoying and hostile aetion, and
finally, with increased enthusiasm and in
creased bitterness, carrying the Presiden-
sisi election in triumph, and grasping the
power of the Federal Government, what
could the South do but consult its own
safety BY Withdrawing from the Union ?
What other protection bad they 2 The
Senate, which had still Democratic m a.
jority! They had seen the house of Rep
resentatives pass into the hands Of their
enemies, and each session saw an increas-
ing majority there. The Executive had
gone for four years, Their own majority
in the Senate was dwindIing fast, while
on the Territorial question not few of
the Northern Democrats were unsound.-
To the Supreme Courtl That had spoken
in tha Dred Scott decision. But even the