Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-05-19
Brand the Liars !!

by prcjudieing the people against Union
Government, says:
THIS picked Administrafion INCITEL
and PROVOKED Civil War, as preteXt to
abolish Slavery in the StaIes."
Aud this is repeated by all the Tories,
for the purpose of deceiving honest men.
Now, rho erer heard IF an Adnliaistra
ton "inciting par" against itsef? Why
should Old Abe try to turn himself out
of the White House? And what can an
"Adminis,ration" do before it comes into
existence? The vile charge is ridiculous
in argument-preposterously absurd aud
wantonly, wickediy, designedly untrue.
What are the ticts Of history on the point
Of TLHEs
The leading Rebels boast that they were
for THIRTY YEARS PAST maturing the Se-
ccssion they are now striving for.
! Now look at the FIGURES!
I While James Buchanan was yet Presid-
ent-before "this Administration" had a
being in point of fact-the following acts
of "civil war" were openly perpetrated:
On November 10, lS6o-oefore the
vote for President was fully known-hos-
tiIiries were virtually inaugurated by bills
for arming troops aud denouucing the us.
authority passing in Southern Legislature
and by open revolt, seditiou, and treason,
at Numerous public meetings there.
On the 20 b of Dec .S.uh Cdro'ina in
State Convention declared war by her Sc
ces~iOn Ordinance. 25th, called upon the
Slave States to form Confedsracy 2Sth,
tore down and trampled upon the Unions
A,y, aud BY force sez i the U. S Custom
House, Post Ofiice and Arsenal at Charles
ton, and also captured Fort Moultrie aud
Castle Piuckney.
Dec ~, the us. revenue cutter Aiken
was BETRAYED into its enemy's power.
In 1861 l-2I Jan. Gov. Ellis of North
Carolina took Fort Macon at Beaufort, the
barracks at Washington, and all the US.
property at Fayetteville.
Same day, Mississippi commenced war
BY setting up Another Government within
this "supreme" government
The same day, Geory;nns took possession
of Forts Pulaski aud Jackson aud the US
Arsenal at Savannah.
Ga the 4th Jan. Fort Morgan at Mobile
Bay and the Us Arsenal at Mobile were
seized by Gov. Moore Of AlaJania.
Jan. 5'h, the steamer Star of the West
sailed from New York, with supplies, for
Fort Sumpter, and on the Sth rns Jirei
upon by Rebel Lrtteries at Charleston, aud
driven back to sea.
On the lib, the us. Arsenal a. Baton
Rogue, Forts Philip and Jackson below
New Orleans, and Fort Pickens on Lake
Ponchartain, were seized by the troops Of
Louisiand.
Ga the 10th, the Rebel Col. Hayne
demanded from the President the surren.
der Of Fort Sumpter.
Same day, 2l6 sick and feeble patients
we're turned sut o: U. S. Marine Hospital,
at New Orleans, to make room for Rebel
soldiers.
Next day, Flor;da seeedes, then takes
possession of Pensacola Navy Yard.
ChU lJr utOytu scCCueFs "uh SsoaiS oh
the remaining property of Uncle Sam.
On the 3lst, Louisiana seized the U. s.
Branch Mint, and SSH, 900 of money in
it belonging to the Government.
FEBRU AIRY lst, Ttras revolted, and
Gen Twiggs betrayed over to it the Union
troops and a million and half of arms or
other Union property.
On the 9Th, Arkansas takes arms from
the U. s. Arsenal at Little Rock to fight
the Union power.
On the Stb, the Rebel Government was
fomented at Montgomery, Alabama-9th,
elected JEFF Davis, Presi1ent-and,, 18th,
inauyurated him as President of a hostile
and separate Contederacy
On the 23d, the President elect thwarted
the plot to assassinate him by going thro'
Baltimore without being announced.
Freedom of speech aud of the press,the
right of peaceful assemblage, and habeas
corpus, were suppressed-U. 8. Officers
were insulted, and driven from power
pcaceable, law abiding Union men and
women we're abused, robbed, imprisoned,
nobbed, driven from home, or killed, in
various ways, in great numbers. 10 short,
he Constitution, laws, and powers Of our
Government were under the iron hoofs of
military despotism, in defiance Of the will
# several of those States, as expressed by
heir honest votes. All was . "reign of
error" by lawless, armed Aristocracy.