The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-08-20

upon the 8! lave States to form Confederacy.
On the 2Sth. tore down. and trampled up on
the Union flag, and By force seized the U.
8. Custom House, Post Office and Arsenal
at Charleston, and also captured Fort Moul.
trie and Castle Pinckney.
December 18th, the U. s. revenue cut
ter Aiken was betrayed into its enemy's
power. a,.,
In 1s61-2d January, Gov. Ellis Of NORTH
Carolina took For Macon and Beaufort the
barracks at Washington, and all the q. 8.
property at Fayetteville. -.
Same day, Mississippi commenced war
by setting up another Government within
this supreme government. a..
The same day Georglans took posses ssiou
of Fort Pulaski and Jackson and tho U. s
Arsenal at Savannah.
On January 4th, Fort Morgan at Mobile
Bay and the U. s. Arsenal At Mobile wer,
seized BY Governor Moore Of Ala
bama. y, 81 Fsse&zsr gT@s GH88@s1
January 9Th, the Steamer Star of the Yves,
sailed from New York. with supplies for For
Sumpter, and on the 9th was fired upon By
rebel Batteries at CAarleston, and driver
back to sea. ,-..-.... ....... -.
| On the l1th, the U. s. Arsenal at Bator
Rouge, Forts Pnilip and Jackson below New
Orleans, and Fort Pickens on Lake Porto
hartrain were seized by the troops Of Louis
ana. 81
i On the 18th the rebel Col. Hayne deman
ded from the President the Surrender O
j Fort, Sumpter., ~,.ra s.
i Same day 216 sick and feeble patients
were turned out of the U. s, Marine Hopi
tai at New Orleans, 10 make room for rebe
soldiers. .,
i Next day, Florida secedes, then take
possession OF Pensacola Navy Yard.
January 10Th Georgia seccdes, ant
steals all the remaining property of Uncl
Sam. ..,s
| On the 31st Louisana sci zed the u.
Branch Mint, and $511 900 of money in it
belonging to the Government. .
i February lst, 7sras revolted, and Gen
Twiggs betrayed over the Union troops an,
a million and half Of arms or other Unio,
property. 60 r.. .,.. s....,, i.
Il On the 9Th, Arkdnsas takes arms from
the U. S. Arsenal at Little Rock to fight tn
Union power.
4 On the 9Th. the rebel Government wa
formed at Montgomery, Alabama-9th, elec
ted JEFF Davis President-ani, 10th, inau
gurated him as President Of a hostile ana
separate Confsderacy,
On the 23d, the President elect thwartet
the plot to assassinate him by going through
Baltimore without being announ-
ced. -..-
i Freedom of speech and of the press, tn
right Of peaceful assemblage, and habea
corpus, were suppressed-U. s. Officer.
were insulted and driven from power
peaceable, law-abiding Union men and wo
men were abused, robbed. imprisoned, mob
bed, driven from home, or killed, in variou!
, ways, in great numbers In short the Con
stitution, laws and powers of our Govern
ment were under the iron hoofs Of military
despotism,, in defiance of the will of seve
raj of those States, as expressed BY thei
honest votes. All was "reign Of terros
by lawless armed Aristocracy.
On THE FOURTH or MAncH-ArrER all d
the above and hundred other acts of par
: treason, robbery, murder and crime were con,
sitted, PRESIDENT LINCOLN was inaugurate
and with his Cabinet began to roll the bac
tide Of war then found raging.
Leok at the datsi again. And yet ",
are unbushingly told that "rHrs v;cted I'D
n'inistration melted and provoked cisi
soar p If the devil don't roast such lia
he fails to get his own dues.
-"Asa PRDIEXT,p quoth vallandie
ham and his Confederate hlsi6
ers. t.sH fa 81 ,fi
Look at tho dates again. /. The rebels bega
their mad game in the fail Of 1850 -throug
al 1861 they used Slaves to destroy ou
Goyernment-and not until tho year 1856
1.-TWO years) did the President restore free
dom to the slaves of Rebel masters, as 4
military necessity, ;, not IS a"pretsxt' dc
vised beforehand. .ss Il a
Leader ? cut out the above dates an
post them up for reference agains