The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-09-24
From tho Columbus Union League.
The AuthOrs Of the ReheIlion.

Vallandigham, the chief of the Cop
perhead tribe, in his efforts to aid the
rebels by prejudieing the people against
the Government, says:
"This Wicked administration INCL
TED and PROVOKED Civil War, as
a PRErExT to abolish Slavery in the
States"
And this is repeated by all Tories for
the purpose OF dcceiviDg honest men.
Now, who ever heard of an Admins
tration inciting war against itself?
Why should the President seek to turn
himself out of the White House? And
how could an Administration" incite
anything before it had an existence2
/ The vile charge is ridiculous in argu.
ment -preposterously absurd, and
wantonly, wickedly, designedly un-
true.
What arc the facts Of history on the
point Of time?
The leading rebels boast that they
were for THIRTY YEARS PAST maturing
the secession they are now striving for.
NOW look at inc HguTeS
While James Buchanan was yet Pres
idcnt-before this Administration"
had being in point Of fact-the fol-
lowing acts Of civil war" were openly
perpetratcd:
/ On November 10, 1SG0-before the
vote for President was fully known
hostilities were virtually inaugurated
by bills for arming troops and denoun-
chg the Uni ed States authority pass
! ing in Il Southern Legislature, and by
open revolt, seduction, and treason, at
humorous public meetings there.
On the 29th Of December, 1860, South
Carolina, i'll State Convention, declared
war by her Secession Ordinance. On
/ the 18th, called upon the Slave States
t. form Coniederacy. On the 28th,
tore down and tampled upon the
Union flag, and by force seized the L.
s. Custom House, Post Office, and Ar
scDal at Charleston. and also captured
Fort Moultric and Castle Pinckney.
December 9th, the T. S. revenue
cutter Aiken was betrayed into the en-
emys power.
! In l6Gl-2d January, Gov Ellis, of
North Carolina, took Fort Macon at
Beaufort, the balrscks at Washington,
and all the United States property at
Fayetteville,
I Same day, Mississippi commenced
j war by setting up another Government
within this supreme Government.
The same day, Georgians took pos
session Of Forts Pulaski and Jackson
and the L. s. Arsenal at Mobile were
seized by Gov, Moore, Of Alabama.
Jan. 9th, the steamer Star of the
West sailed from New York, with sup
plies for Fort Sumter, and on the 9th
1eaS freduPon Iyrs5el batteries at Charles
ton and driven back to sea.
On the llth, the L. s. Arsenal at
Baton Rouge, Forts Philip and jack
son below New Orleans, and Fort Pick
ems on Lake Pontchartrain were seized
; BY the troops OF Louisiana.
On the 10th, the rebel Col Haype
demanded from the President the sur
render Of Fort Sumter
Same day, two hundred and sixteen
sick and feeble patients We're turned
out of the [. S. Marine Hospital at
New Orleans, to make room for rebel
soldiers.
Next day, Florida sccedes; then
takes possession Of Pensacola Navy
Yard.
January 10th, Georgia secedes, and
steals all the remaining property of
Uncle Sam.
On the 31st, Louisiana seized the L.
:. Branch Mint, and s5l1 900 of money
in it, belonging to the Government.
February lst, Texas revolted, and
Gen Twiggs betrayed over the Union
troops aad million and q half of arms
or other Union property.
On the 9th Arkansas takes arms
from the L. 5. 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 mdugurated him as President
Of u hostile and separate COntederacy.
On the ed, the President elect
thwartcd the plot to assassinate him
by going through Baltimore without
being announced,
Freedom of speech and the press,
the right of peaceful assemblage, and
, habeas corpus, were supprcssed-Uni-
ted States 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 Con-
! stitution, laws, and powers Of our Gov
ernment were under the iron hoots Of
military despotism, in defiance ofthe
, will of several Of those States, as ex-
: pressed by those honest votes. All
= was reign Of terror by a lawless,
armed aristocracy.
. On the 4th of March; after all ofthe
above and hundred other acts ofwar,
treason, robbery, murder and crime
/. were committed, President Lincoln
|. and Cabinet began to roll back the
n tide Of war they found raging.
= Look at the dates again And yet
d we are unhestatingly told that
!, "THIS WICKED ADM1NlSTRA-
s TION INCITED AND PROVOKED
Z CIVIL WARP
If the devil don't get such liar, he
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