Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-04
Who Comm cnced the War;


| Who Commenced the War;
| Abraham Lincoln was inauguratet
President of the United States on tn,
4th of March, 1861. Up to thattme tn.
Government had been entirely in thu
hands of the Democracy, executive, leg
islative and judicial. James Buchanan
a Northern Democrat, being President
and John {. Breckenridge, Southern
Democrat, Vice President.
The following scraps of history, taken
from a Southern almanac, will show
something of the peaceful condition O
the country while in the hands OF the
Democracy, and when the Republican
Administration was inaugurated:
Dec. 26, lS60-Capture of Fort Moul.
trie and Pickney by South Carolina
troops. Capt. Costle surrenders the
Revenue cutter Aiken.
Jan. 2, lS6l-Capture of Fort Pulaski
by the Southern troops.
Jan. 3-The arsenal of Mount Vernon,
Alabama, with 10000 stand of arms,
seized by the Alabama troops.
Jan. 4-Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay,
taken by the Alabama troops.
Jan. 6-The steamship Star of the
West fired into and driven off by the
South Carolina batteries on Morris Is
land. Failure ofan attempt to reinforce
Fort Sumter.
Jan. l0-Forts Jackson, st. Philip and
Pike, near New Orleans, captured by
the Louisiana troops.
Jan. l4-Capture of Pensacola Navy
Yard and Forts Barrancos and McRea.
Major Chase shortly afterward takes
command, and the siege of Fort Pick
ems commences.
Jan. 13-Surrender of Baton Rouge
arsenal to Louisiana troops.
Jan. 3l-New Orleans Mint and Gus
tom House taken.
Feb. 2-Scizure OF Little Rock arsenal
by Arkansas troops.
Feb. 4.-ssurrender of the Revenue
cutter Cass to the Alabama authorities.
Feb S.--ProvisiOnalc constitution adOp-
ted.
Feb. 9.---Jefferson Davis, OF Missis-
sippi, and Alexander H. stephens, of
Georgia, elected President and Vice
President.
Feb. 1G.--Gen. Twiggs transfers public
property in Texas t. the State authorl-
ties. Col. Waite, L. s. A., surrenders
San Antonio to Col. Ben. McCullOch
and his Texas Rangers.
Feb. l6.-The revenue cutter Dodge
seized by the Texan authorities.
In view of the foregoing, u friendly
paper in foreign country, the Montreal
lFitncss, very pertinently remarks as
follows:
Now all these were warlike and trea
sonable acts, and oil ipere committed be-
fore ". Lincoln entered office. 1t is
simply ridiculous to say that he conf
menced the war. On the 18th of April
TT. Sumter was bombarded; on the 18th
it was surrendered, and on the l4th it
was evacuated. 1t was not till the last
named date that Lincoln issued his first
call for volunteers to put down the re-
bellion in the United States. With
these facts before them, can any one
continue to call the present struggle in
the States "Mr. LincOlns war;"
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sr.W aa0ut PeMdiet0a
How much of Union man Pendie-
toll is may be inferred from the follow
ing, an extract from a speech of his,
january IS, 1861, as published in the
EonqrcsSicn0! Tlobe AlIenoiir::
My voice to-day is for ronciliation :;
my voice IS for compromise, and it is
but the echo 0; the voice of my cOnstit-
uents. l beg YOU. gentlemen, who with
me represent the Northwest; you who,
with n" represent the State of Ohio :;
you who, with me represent the city OF
Cincinnati, | beg YOU, gentlemen, to
hear that voice. II you will not; If
Iot FIN, tJEsIiiATiDN IMPOSSIBLE; IF
NoCE DIFFERENCES ARE so GREAT THAT
Yog CANNOT or WILL. NOT RECONCILE
HEN THEN. GENTLEMEN, LET THE
,i.CED!NG STATES DEPART IN
PEACE; LEI THEM ESTABLISH
THEIR GOV llNN MENT AND EN-
PlRs. AND WORK OUT THEIR
DESTINY ACCORDING TO THE
" :SDOA- WHICE GOD HAS GIVEN
rltEM.'
Rene mber THAI a vote for Mcclellan
is & vote for Prediction also.