The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-07-10

The Richmond Enquirer exalts druHken Wig
fall and traitor Floyd to most wonderful extent
1t calls Wig hero, and says it always believed
from the cut Of his jib. that he would achieve
glory upon the battle field, "a vel! "a in the halls
Of legislation. Ii details the long concocted
treason Of Floyd, and boasts OF it as follows:
"The plan invented by Gen. Scott to stop Sc.
cessiOn. vas. like all campaigns devised by him,
very able in It's details, and nearly certain gen.
eral success. The Southern States are full of
arsenals and forts, commanding their rivers and
strategic points Gen. Scott desired to trans.
fer The army of the United States to these forts
q speedily and quietly az possible. Had he sue
ceeded in doing SO. revolution would have been
paralyz ed in the Whole south, and the submis-
sionist party would have been organized on a
very different footing from what We now know.
The Southern States could not have cut off com
munication between the Government and ,he
foetresses without great aeet. which they cannot
build for years or take them by land without
one hundred thousand men. many hundred mil
lions of dollars. several campaigns, and many
BLOODY siege Had Gen Scott been enabled To get
these forts in the condition he desired them to
be, the Southern Confederacy would rot now ex.
ist
But the cooperation o. the Secretary Of War
ID necessary to the movement of troops and in
Ecu of cooperating. the Secretary of War
ttwarted, objected resisted and forbade. Every
day saw the battle fought in Buchaaan's Cabinet;
every day the solitary champion OF the South
~as forced close to the corner Of the wall. That
day came when he was fairly beaten. At last
Scott seemed to be victor. The Government
adopted his plan, and gave the order for the
mOvessnt at Charleston, to be followed by SINH.
lar movements all over the country. Nothing
wss left for the Secretary but TO 60 to the block:
but he contrived to 60 a. 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 resigned but not with
stealth or shame-he resigned with a clap of
thunder. " bile the Administration vas giving
orders for the military occupation Of the South
ern country, IL was actually in negotiation with
the commissioners Of South Carolina.
This fact, If made clearly manifest. sufic;ent,v
unveiled the design and the character of the
Cabinet; and causing his resignation to turn on
that specification. the Secretary drew the eyes
Of the entire world on that focus The Southern
leaders awoke to a sense of their position, and |
pereeiving that il they gave a weeks respite to a
p,ps actually in course OF execution, they were
Aopslessly lost, they sent over the country the |
erders which led to the popular seizure Of all the
Iorss in the south, except the two which |
Scots movements had placed definitely under
his control
Thus did the great American soldier lose
campaign for the first time in his life: and
e6us was the Southern country saved Years of
c'oodshed, struggle, diserace and glory. 1t vas
the great passage in the life Of Floyd