The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-09-02
Wlistellaurous Aews,
brand the Liars.

1Ehhu the AthEss
vallandigham the chief of the copperhead
tribe, in his efforts to aid the rebels by pre-.
judicing the people against Union Gov.
ernment, says:
This Wicked Administration INClTED
and PROVOKED Civil War. as q PRETEXT
to abolish Slavery in the States."
And this is repeated by all Tories for the
purpose of deceiving honest men.
Now, tcho erer' heard Of an IdmiRiSird.
ton incitir9 ordr against fSelfP Why
should Old Abe try to turn himself out OF
the White House And what can an Ad.
ministration" incite before it comes into ex.
istencci Tho vile charge is ridiculous in
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS absurd and wan.
tonly, wickedly, designedly untrue.
IVhdt are the facts Of history oa the point
ofTIME2
The leading rebels boast that they were
for thirty gears past maturing the secession
they are now striving for.
Now look at the FIGURES!
While James Buchanan was yet Presi.
dent-betore "this Administration had a
being in point OF fact--the following acts OF
civil war" were openly perpetrated:
On November 10, ls6O-bcfore the vCtc
for President was fully known-hostlities
were virtually iuaugurated Ivy Ills for
arming troops and denouncing tho United
States authority passing in Southern Leg
islature, and by open revolt, seduction and
treason, at numerous public meetings there
On the goth of December, South Carolina
i'll State Convention declared war by he:
Secession Ordinance. On the 18th, called
upon the Slave States to form Conleder.
acy. On the 2Sth, tore down, and tramplcd
upon the Union flag, and by force seized
the I. 5. Custom House, Post Office and Ar
senal at Charleston, and also captured Fort
Moutrie and Castle Pinckney.
December 81, the U. s. revenue cutter
Aiken was betrayed into tho enemy i
power.
In 1861 l-2i January, Gov. Ellis, of North
Carolina took Fort Macon at Beaufort the
barracks ut Washington, and all tho u. S.
property at Fayetteville.
Same day, Mississippi commenced war
by setting up another Government within
this supreme Government.
The Same day, Georgians took possession
of Forts Pulaski and Jackson, and the L. S.
Arsenal at Mobile was seized by Gov. Moore
of Alabama.
Jan. 5, tho steamer Star of the West
sailed from New York, with supplies for
Fort Sumter, and on the 9Th ,caS .fred Upon
by rebel batteries at Charleston and driven
back to sea.
On the 1lth, the U. s. Arsenal at Baton
Rouge, Forts Philip and jackson below
New Orleans, and Fort Pickens on Lake
Pontchartrain were seized 10y the troops OF
Louisiana.
On tho 10th, the rebel Col. Hayne de-
manded from the President the surrender
of Fort Sumter.
Same day, zig sick and feeble patients
were turned out of the L. $. Marine hos
pital at New Orhaus to make room fol
rebel soldiers.
Next day, Flovitia seccdes, then takes
possession of Pensacola Navy Yard.
Jan. 10, Georgia secedcs, and steals all
the remaining property of Uncle Sam.
On the 3lst, Louisiana seized the u. s.
branch Mint and SOL 900 of iaoney i'll it
belonging to the Government.
February l, Texas revolted, and Gen
Twiggs betrayed over the Union troops
and a million and half of arms or other
Union property.
On the 5th, Arkansas takes arms from the
Y. 5. Arsenal at Little Rock to fight the
Union power.
On the 9Th, the rebel Government was
formed at Montgomery, Alabama 7th,
elected JEFF. Davis as President; on the 10th,
iaaagurated him as President Of a hostile
and separate Coa.federacy.
On the 23d, the President elect thwarted
the plot to assassinate him by going through
Baltimore without being announced.
Freedom of speech and the press, the
right OF peaceful assemblagc, and habeas
corpus, were suppressed--N, s, ctlicere
were insulted and driven from power
peaceable, law-abiding Union men and
women were abused, robbed and mpbbed,
driven from home, or killed in various WAYS
in great numbers. In short the Constitn-
tion, laws and powers of our Government
were under the iron hoois of military des-
potism, in defiance of the will of several of
those States, as expressed by their honest
votes. A IL was q reign of terror" by a
lawless, armed aristocracy.
On the 4th of March-qfter all OftRe ADORE
and q hmared other acts of lrdr, treason, .,
robbery, murder and crime mere committed,
President Lincoln and Cabinet began to
roll back the tide of war they found raging.
Look at tie dates againI And yet we
are unbushingly told that
This WICKED ADMINISTRATORS
INCITED AND PROVOKED CIVIL WARP
If the Devil don't roast such a liar, he
fails to get his own dues.
" As PRETEXT," quoth Vallaudigham
and his confederate falsifers.
LOOK AT THE DATES AGAIN.
The rebels began their mad game in tho
fall of l860-through all 1861 they used
slaves to destroy our Government-and
not until the year 1862 two years. did the
President restore freedom to the slaves of
rebel masters, as military necessity"
not as pretext" devised beforehand.
Reader cut out the above dates and
post them up for reference against liars.