New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-09
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OLD VIRGINIA.
The Rebel Legislature Of Virginia he's just
issued an address to the soldiers Of that State il
the Rebel armies, whe-einto nearly every male
capable of beagng arms has been rutheSsly
conscripted and compelled TO serve Indefinitely,
under penalty of being Instantly shot. Many
Of them, very naturally, demr- 70 this; where
fore the Legislature seek 70 persuade them that
it is all right. They talk alter TIL, fashion:
1t was at this critical iuacture o; our history in
November, l-j9 that Abraham Lincoln was CHOSEN
President Oi the United states. lie was a. oDs' ure
mnn Lut little known al the D.til whose lhr was
cLeckered book from which tex's 81 TaTons aul con
iictirF significance co1ld be- drawn 10 nu'Ar PUBIC
expectation But Shore was one tcAt g.oven on The
nares Of this book that admitted of b"t urc reading.
Nj Linc0a was the author q that hlcou' sentiment
that the States OF tle Union could not remain
part Free and part slave oaies-'i tty nue. %
eiollv FREE or r0y Sla-t And Che southern states
had never eYinced desire oade,ign 20 impose tleiI
institutions the Free states 70 followed ~ ~ ofice
sequence that Mr.. Lincoln thought the iree states
wfre b0.nd by a manifest dcstiny - crush ont the
Slavery Institution ia the South. tbs snocSing s'u'i
ment which could only be made practical tro'gh seas
of blood eudeared MIR Lincoln % people already edu'
Gated to that cruel issue
Mr.. Lincoln was designated By the People
for President in l-60-not '59-but this blundeT
Of the Solons is a trine in view Of their deliber
ate falsehoods Not only did Mr.. Lincoln
formally and soiemnly disciaim and repei, in
the very outset Of Bis Inaugural, any such pur-
pose as is here imputed to him. but the Repub-
leans in Concress offered 70 amend Tie Consii-
tuition so as to render il impossible that the
Free States should crush out Slavery; and this
amendment actually passed either House By a
two-thirds vote. Simultaneously, in the Peace
Conference or Congress presided over by
John Tyler, Mr.. Amos Tuck Of y. II. moved a.
proposition importing that neither Congress nor
any other branch Of the Federal Government
has any power "to interfere in any manner
with Slavery in any Of the States" and that no
party contemplates a violation Of the Constitu-
ton in this regar1-which was voted down by
II States to 9-erery Slnrs Sfato represented be-
ing in the majority, against al thc thoroughly
Republican States The testimony to this effect
is so varied and abundant that those Y.rgnians
must know that their charge is false.
They proceed TO assert that
1--WE shall not delay 20 expose tho shallow aTiiice
By which he Wantoy dys0 from hs Souh hs ysf ire at
sumter and thus covered hi, purposes with tIo Dc
ceptiye sombancc defensive We desire - trace
this food Of wckeduess 10 It's truthful source and to
present its real authors in unyaed deornity 20 the
ezecraon OF mankind. This proclamation 81 President
Lincoln was tie declaration Of war by the Executive Of
The Federal Government without the sanction OF Cou'
eress."
These gentlemen have short memories. A
Southern History Of the War" by their emf
nent fellow Virginian and fellow traitor, Ed
ward 4. Pollard, will suffice to expose their de-
ception. Mr. Pollard sums up the martial
doings of the Conicderates before Mr. Lincoln
,sas inaugurated, as follows:
On The incoming Of ne Adr7inisr1tior Of AJrahau
Lincoln or the 4th OF March the rival Government Of
the South had perfected its organization the separation
had been wdened and enyenomed by the amDde1tefliy
and perfdy of President buchanan the Southern peo
pie however still hoped for peaceful Accomplishment
Of their independents and dePored war between tS
two sections as "a policy detrimental 70 the owned
world The revolution. in the mean time, mad rapidly
gathered strength, not only in moral power Dnt III the
Of and Inuniments OF defense Fort MoultFle
end Castle PinckBey had been cGptHrsd by the south
Carolina troops Fort Pulaski, the defense OF SaIan-
nah had been taken the Arsenal at Mount Vernon
A with 20 900 stand Of arms had been seized by the
Alabama troops; Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay. had
been taken Forts Jaek.on ST. Philip, and Pike, near
New Orleans, had been captured by tho Louisiana
troops; the New Orleans Mint and Custom House had
the Arkansas troops Though Arkansas had refused 10
secede; and. the 10th Of February, Gen. Twiggs
had Transferred the public property in Texas 10 the
State authorities"
Such, as we prove by incontestable Rebel au-
thority, were among the events preceding Mr..
Lincoln's Inauguration. Six weeks thereafter,
Fort Sumter, under deliberate aud repeated
-ders from the Confederate War office, was
bombsrded, reduced and captured by Confed-
crate cannon; and Mr.. jeff Dayis'S Secretary
Of War thereupon proclaimed, in a public
harangue at Montgomery, that they would have
Washington City within month. All this
preceded President Lincoln'S Proclamation call.
ing for rs, 900 volunteers.
Now, then, let US suppose that sons other
po,eer beside the Confederate had invested, bonn
barded and reduced Fort Sumter exactly as the
Confederate did, and had thereupon proclaimed
its determination to do tho same with Wash
ington City forthwith would the Virginia mag
mates have expected the President to await the