The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-07-20
OLD VIRGINIA.,

nearly every male capable OF bearing
arms has been ruthlessly conscripted
and compelled to serve indefinitely,
under penalty of being instantly shot.
\ Many of them, very naturally, demur to
/ this; wherefore the Legislature seek TO
4 persuade them that it is all right. They
/ talk after this fashion:
at was at this critical juncture .of
/ our history, in November, 1893, that
| Abraham Lincoln was chosen President
i Of the United States. He was an obscure
man. but little known at the South, whose
/ life was CHI c1ered book from which
texts Of various and conflicting sgnifi-
canoe could be drawn, to puzzle public
1 expectation. But there was one text
craven on the pages of this book that
admitted of but one reading. Mr.. Lin
coin was the author of that hideous sen
timent that the States of the Union
could not remain part Free and part
Slave States-n0t they must he artOiiy Free
or uhoiiy .Slaye. And rs the Southern
States had never evinced a desire or
design to impose their institutions on the
Free States, it followed, as Of logical
sequence, that Mr. Lincoln thought the
Free States were bound, hy q manifest
destiny, to crush out the Slavery institu-
tion in the South. This shocking sent
mcnt, which could only be made practi-
cal through seas Of blood. endcarcd Mr..
Lincoln to a people already educated to
that cruel issue
Mr.. Lincoln was designated by the
People for President in 1s60-not 50
but this blunder of the Solons is a tribe
in view of their deliberate falsehoods.
Not only did Mr.. Lincoln formally and
solemnly disclaim and repel, in the very
outset of his Inaugural, any such purpose
as is here imputed to him; but the Re
publicans in Congress offered to amend
the Constitution 50 as to render it i'm
possible that the Free States should
crush out Slavery; and this amendment
actually passed either House by two
thirds vote. Simultaneously, in the
"Peace Conference or Congress, pre-
sided over by John Tyler, Mr.. Amos
Tuck of n. III. moved proposition i'm
other branch of the Federal Government
has any power Ito interfere in any
manner with Slavery in any of the
and that no party contemplates
a violation of the Constitution in this
was voted down by IL
States to 9-erery Stare state represented be
ing in the majority, against all the
Republican States. The testi-
mony to this effect is so varied and
abundant that those Nirgnians must
know that their charge is false.
They proceed to assert that
1--WE shall not delay to expose the
shallow artiiice by which he wantonly
d,,eU from tie .South tie .frSt IRE at .Sumter,
and thus covered over his purposes with
the deceptive scmblance of defensive
war. We desire to trace this flood of
ckedness to its truthful source and to
present its real authors i'll unvailed de-
formity to the eXecration of mankind.
This proclamation of President Lincoln
was the declaration of war by the Exc
cutive of the Federal Government, with
out the sanction of Congress.
These gentlemen have short memories
Southern History of the War" by
their eminent fellow Nirginian and fellow
traitor, Edward n, Pollard, will suffice
20 expose thcir deception. Mr.. Pollard
sums up the martial doings of the Con
'ederates, before -Gr. Lincoln ,caS inaugural
ed as follows;
"Oa The incoming Of he administration OF
ibrahd1, Lincoln, on the fth of March.
he rival Government of the South had
its organization the separation
had been widened and envcnomed by the
and periidy of President
Buchanan; the Southern people, however
still hoped for peaceful accomplishment
,f their independence, and deplored war
the two sections, as policy
detrimental to the civilized world The
evolution, in the mean time, had rapidly
gathered strength. not only in moral
,ower. but in the means of war and
nunimcnts of defense Fort Noultrie
md Castle Pickuev had been copt2red
oy the South Carolina troops; Fort Pull
iski, the defense of Savannah, had been
aiken; the Arsenal Mt Mount Vernon.
Ala. with %, GOO stand Of arms. had
,cen seized hy the Alabama troops. Fort
Morgan. in Mobile Bay. had been taken.
Forts Jackson. St. Philip, and Pike,
hear New Orlcans, had been ca tsred bv
he Louisiana troops: the New Orleans
he Little Rock Arsenal had been seized
" the Arkansas troopsf though Arkansas
lad refused to secede and, on the 10th
# February Gen. Twiggs had transferred
he public property in Texas to the State
authorities.
Such, as we prove hy incontestable
Rebel authority, were among the events
,recidiRg Mr.. Lincoln's Inauguration.
'iN weeks thereafter, Fort Sumter,
Inder deliberate and repeated orders /
rom the Confederate War Office. was
reduced and captured by 1
cannon: and Mr.. JEFF. Davis's .
secretary of War thereupon proclaimed, /
n public harangue at Montgomery.
hat they would have Washington CITY !
within month All this preceded
resident Lincoln's Proclamation calling
or 900 volunteers.