The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-02-07
Let Washington be Defended.

hio S""B'eSo aIe dmuslDB tucm-
selves with propositions of compromise,
which, # they we're yet more humiliating
to the Free States than they are. some Of
the rebeliOus States would scornfnly
ie use; while ccwed apparently ty the
Insult TO our flag, and the brutal treat
meni OF Northern, citizens, our represent.
atives are preparing TO yield to threats
and violence what they have heretofore
denied fIom principle, while they are Ss.
sumlng the right 10 trample, as the ser
wants Of the people, upon the verdict rem
dered by the people in theft own sover,
eighty at the polls: while amid .he seces
: sion day By day Of Southern States, they
are drafting bills, 10 introduce new States
lof extraordinary magnitude. tia, will
possibly sscede within a month TO Join
the new Confederacy; while monster pc
titions from Noithern merchants ready
10 buy peace at any saor6se. are being
borne to Washington by gentlemen SO
eniaptured with the happy influence oi
Slavery on our national prosperity. IS
now exhibited to the world, that they
would extend il over every foot of South
ern territory; while the country is bring
shorn Of its strength, robbed Of its prop
Icrty, and csjoIed by Mr.. Buchanan S gra-
cious assurance that he will drive Mr.
Lincoln to be iuaugurated in his own car
riage; and Will, stocks at tie Enchange
, 90 up ard down, and Wall street wag, a;
, merrily as though the South was quiet a:
, a lsmb-by day and night tie plot eoe'
on for ssiziug Washington, for prevent.
ing the Congression announc ment o
the people's will, and for procIaiming .
: Slave Confederacy on the ruins Of ouI
! glorious Republic.
J We say TO the North and West and
! East, that there IS mol an hour to be los
, if you would prevent this catastrophe
Let the people, their Governors, and thei
r Legislatures realize the immluen. Of the
G danger. Let them insist that. Congress
t shal act on the instant, and make search
. ing scrutiny into the defenses of Wash
O ington. Let them demand that the oall
: OF allegiance be rendered anew 10 ever,
J. officer Of Government, civil, military, At
naval as was done BY Gen Scott to hi
e officers a Charleston during her frst
bellion, when we had a Government. am
d Jackson was at its head. Let every MAJ
i who hes tates 10 take the oath b. placed il
position where he cannot play tn lrai
/, tor, and let Northern polio men anc
,f Northern troops in sufic ,ent numbers b
r joined to lie police and militia Of III
e District, that Washington may be in tn
j hands Of defenders whose numerical AM
|, moral force will cause the cherished plal
10 Of the rebels 20 be in the truth abandoned
,r Better thousand times, if it were pos
if sihle, that martial law should be at ono
le declared at the Capital, and every ahetio
= Of treason be placed in irons, than that
>. should be so weakly and treacherous,
n. guarded as to invite attack for with Il
| invasion of Washington will come. be, on
a all question. attempts al iusurrecion i
,e Philadelphia and New York; civil wa
IL in the Border States sweeping downwar
Il toward the Gulf: national convulsion tha
.. will shake the world; and p-rhap' Ii
Of final diarupton of this great Republic, b
4. action more stern than paper resolve
H. and all the by play Of Secession.
in One would suppose that since thu d,
VS. par.nre from Washington of Senator's an
ir Representatives from the rebel Sial'
,e there must be a working majority in bot
ID Houses really desilous to preserve ii
ID Union; but in the quasi nterregnuui th'
i. now exists in the Federal Governmer
ID each day brings us news Of some reb
ir triumph over Federal authority ne
Il. theft permited-ah additional fortre'
It betrayed, OF some similar outrage meek
il acauiesced in. Our national flag trai
Il, in the dust dishonored and despised.- :
Mandates from the War Department
SO Washington are countermandsd BY reb
he guns at Charleston. Federal troops o
dered to Fort Sumter, and within sight.
their destination, shrink from the fire
Fort Moultrie, and unaccustvmed "a tht
are to flight, turn seward in haste al
X. sneak back to Governors Island, eavlr
,s. Anderson and his little band to compa
the present with the past, and contra
is. Jamea Buchanan with Andrew Jackso
lse Already is a blockade Of the Mississip
a established. and vessels from tie Gre
al North West compelled, at the cannon
or. mouth, to lay to, and answer question
iii and pay toll in the shape of dock-rat-s
le. the freeboolerS on it's banks. Nearly t
n. last Of the Southern forts has been betra
M. ed and occupied. and the President is
no gain said to consor. and confer with ,ra
Ar, ors. There are rumors that Fort Sumt
IN is TO be surrendered, and perhaps AS
ward for the quiet behavior Of the reb'
during the remainder Of his term. t
capital. at its close, may be added 10 t
forts and arsenals and dotkyards vi
which rebellion has been SO literally
:, warded. .....
10 God only knows what new calamit
~. lreacl cry and imbecility may have in st,
,sr for us, unless Congress shall assum-
ais te(euse Of Washington and the couns
"A. If they win not do this, let the Govern,
ID of the loyal States confer together and
eide upon the course to Oe pursued
IL. preserve until the fourth Of March /
,ol national rights and property that, urt
the protection OF the retiring .Administ
,or lion, are growing small bv degrees, a
In. melting hike snow before our eyes.
og. We pray oul Northern merchants, W
ort are busy with new compromises that wC
the indefinitely renew and immeasurably
cd, enslly the slavery agitation, TO listen
nome Mt to common sense, and hasten