Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-04-18
GI0rjiRg In their Shame.

1t is fact Of the most notorious character,
that ii was owing to the traitors in Buchan-
ans Cabinet that the rebellion against the gen.
eral government was permittcd-may we not
say helped on to the Formidable proportion,
it had attained when President Lincoln took
charge of the government, but We had no idea
that the rebels would publisl, it to the world
and glory in their shame. The following
from an elaborate eulogy on Mr.. Floyd. in
the Richmond Examiner however shows that
we were mistaken:
"AlI who have attended to the developments
Of the last three months and know augiIt of
the movements Of the Buchanan Administra-
tinn up to the time ot Floyd's resignation
will Justify the assertion that the Southern
Conlederacy would not and could not be in
existance at this hour but for the action of
the late Secretary of War The plan inven-
ted by Gen. Scott to stop secession was, like
all campaigns deuised by him, very able in
its details. and nearly certain Of general sue
cess. The Southern States are full of arse
| nails and forts. commando % their rivers and
stragetsc points. Gen. Scott desired to
| transfer the army Of the United States to
| these forts rs speedily and as quietly as pos
sible. Had he succeeded in doing so. revo-
luton would have been paralysed in the
whole South, and the s'lbmissionist party
would have been organi, ed or very diff
| !erent footing from what we now know
| The South crn States could not have cut off
communication between th Government and
the iortresses without g reat fleet, which
they cannot build for years or take them by
| land without one huudre,. thousand men,
many hundred millions Of dollars and sew
eral campaigns, and many : bloody siege
Had Scott been enable TO got those forts in
the condition he desired hem to be, the
Southern Confederacy woul'i not now exist
But the corporation of the Secretary of
War is necessary to the mo,'emen of troops;
and in lieu u! cooperating, the Secretary Of
War thwarted, objected, resi- tied, and forbade
Every day saw the battle fo ught in Buchau-
ans Cabinet, and every day the solitary
champion of the South was forced closer to
the corner of the wall That day came when
he was fairly beaten. Nothing was left for
the Secretary but to go to thu, block; but he
contrived to do SO as hero surrenders his
keep or his ship, when resistance can no
longer be made; he blew himself and his
enemies up all at once in the air. He re-
signed, but not with stealth or shame; he
resigned with a clap Of thund sr While the
Administration was giving the orders for the
military occupation Of the Southern country
it was actually in negotiation with the Com
mssoners of South Caroline. This fact. if
made clearly manifest, suflici entity unveiled
the design and the character of the Cabinet
and, causing his resignation to turn on that
specification, the Secretary dr. w the eyes Of
the entire world on that one focus. The
Southern leaders awoke to sense Of their
position, aud perceving that if they gave
week ) respite to plot actual in course of
execution they were hopelessly lost, they
sent over the country the orders which lel
to the popular seizure Of all tho forts in the
South except two"