New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-12

h,ve said that In dment It has been brought on BY the
President Of the unitd Sses and portion o the procedure
which has resulted in ia named in the preamble Of this joint
iegslize"
The senator from Kentucky (NIr. POWELL spoke in
similar language. iludng the refusal of Kentucky
TO respond to the p call Of the President for seventy
five thousand men, 10 said:
She believed that ts calling forth Of such immense
inert was for the pnrpse Of making Of on the
sga ent. called for hs Senator ee% 10 be little offended
the n%sqtnsy % Of koqcly Sir ksnusy hs. f'u%sa ss ss
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band. ia broihe bIod whether he be fton the the
South Kentucky look upon this unhoy unrgheou
and unnst that this war carried out can
result in nothing ee tim total dirupon Of the Confedersy
She hopes she wisheshe psys tina, this Union may be main
il lie done BY cmpomise and conciiaion Il 1t be
done all sns devoted truly to ths Union he DE-
r' OF be presented for the adjustment our
l desired in thi connection to place before the
Senate the remaEs of both the Senators from
Kentucky and the Senator from Missouri, and to
answer them at th time. The senator from
Missouri says the brought on since the 4th OF
March by the Present Of the United States OF his own
motion. The Senaor from Kentucky mir. POWELL
pronounces unust an unrighteous and an unholy
But Sir, / commaced enumerating the facts with
the view Of showiH who commenced the war. How
do they stand hive Just stated that South Carolina
seceded-wthdrewfro the COnfederacy; and In the
very act OF withdrawing, she makes pr cical war mp
Oh the Govenmen. and becomes its enemy. Tie Star
of the West, on tbe7h Of January, laden simply with
proyirions TO supply those starving men at Fort Sum
ter attempted to eit. the harbor and was fired upon,
and had 10 Ia K ab,u and leave the men in the fort
10 perish do the Oe.t they conld We also, find that
the llh Of Apr, General Beauregard had an inter-
view with Major lmoerson and made propositloh 10
him TO surren er H8o Ander,o stated III substance,
that he Id do such thing that he could not strike
the coors of bis country and refused TO surrender o
he said at the tme bat by the 18th OF the month
bis provisions would give out, and II not reenioreeu
L. tala
that at this time Mr. Pryor, from Virginia, was IN
Charleston The Convention OF Virginia was sittfg,
and il important that the cannons roar shouid DC
heard in the land Virginia was to be taken out oi
the Union although majority OF the delegates ID tne
Convention were elected against Secession, and IN
favor Of the UIion. We find that after beng
in possession OF The fact that by the 18th of the
mon h tie garIiOn would be starved out and COM
peed TO surrender, on the morning OF the Eth they
commenced the bcmbardment, fired upon the fort aud
upon your men. They knew that in three days they
would be compelled TO surrender, but they wanted
war. II Indispensable to produce an excitement
in order to hurry Virginia out Of the Union, and they
commenced the war. The firing was Kept up until
such time as the for involved in smoke and flames,
aud Major Andersen and his Were compelled TO
lie the floor with their wet handserchiefs to their
faces TO them from suocalion aid death. Even
in the midst Of all this, they refused TO cease their
firing, but keptit up until be was compelled to sur
render
Who then, commenced the wari Who struck the
irst blow Who violated the Constitution in the first
place Who trampled the law under foot, and vio
lated the law morally and legally Wa, il rot South
Carolina in seeding Aud yet you talk about the
President having brought the war by his own mo-
ton, when these iacts are incontroyeru6le No one
dare attempt TO sssail them But after Fort Sumter
was attacked ard surrendered what do we find stated
In Montgomery when the news reached there Here
s the ,elegraphc announcement Of the reception OF
the news there:
"Mosrsx,Rr, Friday April IL, 1851
"An imen., crowd President Davis and Secretary
WALKER at the EIehsuge Hotel tonight"
Mr. Davis refused TO address the audience but MS
Secretary OF War did. The Secretary OF War, Mr..
NO nan could . where the war TIL, day commenced would
breeze here would aost tho dome Of the old Capitol
Washing or before the 10, Of May Let them Southern
might fo.t cy.ntusly FAnsui Hal t.elL'
What is the announcement We have attacked
Fort sumter and il has surrendered, and no can
tell where this war will end. BY the lst of May
flag will wave in triumph from the dome of the old
Capitol at Washington and ere long perhaps from
Faneui Hall In Boston. Ihen was this war COM
menced by the President his own motion ! You gay
the President o, the United States did wrong in
dering out 49, 900 men, and in increasing the Army and
Navy under tle eugeucy. DO we not know, IN con-
necton with these facts, that so soon IA Fort sumter
surrendered they took up the line Of march for
Wa-hingtoni Do not some Of who here
know that did not even 20 to bed very confidently
and securely fear the city would be taken before
tie rising suni Has 1t not been published In the
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readiness with 900 picked men, in the State of Vir
gina to make descent and attack the city, and take
iti
What more do we find We find that the Congress
Of this same pseudo-republc, this Southern Con
federacy that has sprung up IN the South IA early
the 9th of March passed law preparing for this inya-
sion-pepari1g Tor this war which they commenced.
Here il Is;
THAT IN order provide speedily force. to spel Invasion
maintain nthul possession Of the Confederate States Of
every portion Of territory belonging TO each state
aud ts public tranquility and independence against
employ The militia military and naval forces Of the Con
dsrao State. AmeS and AK iof ana accept inc services oil
any .sSd% "D"'''' o '''D" Nv '' '"' "'''''' 'l'1
When your forts were surrendered. and when the
President Of The so-cslled Southern Confederacy
authorized TO call out the entire militia naval and
military force and then to receive in the service Of the
Confederate States one hundred hou-and men, the
President calls for teventy.tye thousand men TO de-
feud the capital and the public property. Are we for
| the Government, against il That il the
question Tlking all the facts into consideration do
we not see that invasion was intended 1t
even announced by MIR. Iyerson upon this floor that
ere long their Congress would be sitting here, and
tlis Govern nent would be overthrown. When the
facts are a put together see tue scheme and 1t is
nothing more nor less than executing pro-
graInue deliberately made out; and yet Senators
hesitate falter, and complain and say the President
has suspended the writ Of habeas corpus increased the
| Army and Navy and they ask, where was the
necessity for all this With your forts taken,
| yonr men fred upon, your ships alta ked at sea-
and one hundred thousand men called into the
field by this so-ealed Southern Con ederacy, with
the additional authority to call out the entire military
and naval force of those States, Senators talk about
the enormous call OF the President for seventyiye
thousand men and the increase he has made of the
army and navy. Mr.. President it all goes to show in
my Opn on that the sympatbles OF Senators are with
the one Government and agaiGs the other. Admitting
that there was little stretch OF power; admitting
that Gle margin was pretty wide when the power was
exerd ed, the query now comes, when you have got
the power when You sitting here in legislative
attitude, you willing TO sustain the Government
and give it the sustain itself 1t is not worth
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