Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1863-08-21
nmAvD THE LIARS.


mRAND THE LIARS.
vALLANDroHAM, the chief Of the copperhead
tribe. in his efforts to aid the rebels by preiu
dicing the people against Union Government,
says;
"THIs ,vickad Ad'ninistratiOn INCITED and
PROVOKED Civil War, as PRETE&T to !
abolish Slavery in the States"
And this is repeated by all Tories for the
purpose Of deceiying honest men.
Now, pho ever heard of an Administration in
citing ,car against ascl9 Why should Old Abe
try totorn himself out of the White HouseS-
Aud what can an administrator" incte be-
fore it comes into existence2 The vile charge
is ridiculous in neutrality-suspicious. alb
surd and wantonly, wickedly, desgnedly un-
true.
Iphat are me frcts Of HISTORY on The point Of
TIME2
The leading rebels boast that they were for
thirty years past maturing the secession they are
now striving for. fn
Now look at the FIGURESl a
While James Buchanan was yet President
before "this Administration" had a being in
point OF fact--the following acts Of 'civil war"
were openly perpetrated: i
On November 10, lS60--before the vote for
President was fully known--hostilities were
virtually naugurated by bills for arming troops
aud denouncing the United States authority
passing in Southern Legislature, and by open
| revolt, seduction, and treason, at numerous pub
lie meetings there.
On the goth Of December, South Carolina in
State Convention declared war by her Secession
| Ordinance. On the 25th, called upon the Slave
States to form a Confederacy. On the 2Sth, tore
down. and trampled upon the Union flag and
by force seized the u s. Custom House, Post
Office and Arsenal at Charleston, and also cap
tured Fort Moultrie aud Castle Pinckney.
December 9th, the U. S. revenue cutter
Aiken was betrayed into the enemy's power.
1 In 1924 January. Gov. Ellis, Of North
| Carolina, took Fort Macon at Beaufort, the bar
racks at Washington, and all the L. S. property
at Fayetteville.
Same day, Mississippi commenced war by
setting up another Government within this su-
preme Government.
| The same day, Georgians took possession of
Forts Pulaski and jackson and the U. S. Ar
senal at Mobile were seized by Gov. Moore, of
Alabama.
Jan. 5th, the steamer Star of the West sailed
from New York, with supplies for Fort Sumter
and on the sth ,Cds fred upon By roJcl batteries at
/ Charleston and driven back to sea.
| On the llth, the U. s. Arsenal at Baton
Rouge, Forts Philip and Jackson below New
Orleans, and Fort Pickens on Lake Pontchar-
4 train were seized by the troops of Louisiana.
II On the 10Th the rebel Col. Hayne demanded
from the President the surrender of Fort Sum-
ter.
Same day, 2l6 sick and feeble patients were
turned out ofthe q. S. Marine Hospital at New
Orleans, to make room for rebel soldiers.
Next day, Florida secedes, then takes possess
sion of Pensacola Navy Yard.
Jan. 10th, Georgia secedes, and steals all the
remaining property of Uncle Sam.
On the 3lst, Louisiana seized the U. s. Branch
Mint, and $5ll 900 of money in it, belonging to
| the Government.
| February lst Texas revolted, and Gen. Twiggs
betrayed over the Union troops and million
and half of arms or other Union property.
On the 5th Arkansas takes arms from the U.
S. Arsenal at Little Rock to fight the Union
power.
On the sth, the rebel Government was formed
at Montgomery, Alabama; 9TH, elected JEFF.
Davis as President; on the 10th i,,dNgurdted him
President of hostile and separate Confederdcy
On the 23d, the President elect thwarted the
plot to assassinate him by going through Balt
more without being announced.
Freedom of speech and the press, the right of
peaceful assemblage and habeas corpus, were
suppressed-U. S. officers were insulted and
driven from power-peaceable law-abiding
Union men and women were abused, robbed and
mobbed, driven from home, or killed, in various
ways, in great numbers. In short the Consti-
tuition. laws and powers of our Government
were under the iron hoofs of military despotism
IN uenance OF the Will OF several Oh lhOSe States
as expressed by their honest votes. All was
"reign of terror" by lawless, armed aristocracy.
On the 4th of March-qticr al Of Mo above and
hundred other acts of tCdr, treason, robbery
murder and crime were committed President Lin
coin and Cabinet began TO roll back the tide of
war they found raging.
Look at the dates again! And yet we are un-
blushingly told that
!" THIS WICKED ADMINISTRATOR
INCITED AND PROVOKED CIVIL WAR;"
If the Devil don't roast such liar, he fails 10
get his own dues.
"As PRETEXT," quoth Vallaudigham and
his confederate falsifers
LOOK AT THE DATES AGAIN.
! The rebels began their mad game in the fall
of le6O-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 "prctcxt" devised
beforehand.
Readerl cut out the above dates and post
them up for reference against liars.