The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-09
and abundant that those Virginians muyI know
that their charge Ia false
They proceed 10 assert that

They proceed 10 assert that
I'VE shall not delay 70 expose ths sha,w artaoe BY
snnisf and thus covered his purposes Win Re do
eenuge sem6Ance Of defensive war We dciro to trace
thl Hood Of wickedness 10 t truthful source and To-
pres, mt lis real authors in unveiled dsority 10 e exs
eTaue' Ui 1 Ih proclamation o. President Lln
The fedo'A Government without tho sanction OF Con
These gentlemen have short memories. A
"Southern History Of the War" by their eminent
fellow Nirgini2n and follsw traitor, Edward A.
Pollard, will suffice to expose their deception.
Mr.. Pollard sums mp the martial doings Of the
COnlederatcs, before Mr.. Lincoln was inaugu-
rated, rs follows
"on the incoming of the Administration Of Abraham
Lincoln on the 4th March, the rival Government Of the
south had perfected It's organization; the separation
and pcrndy Of President buchanan. The southern peo
n their independence and dcplorcd war between the
two sections as "A policy detrimental % the civilized
world. The revolution 10 the meantime, had rapidly
gathered strength, not only IN moral power but IN tho
means OF war and munimeuts OF defense Fort Mlultro
and Castle Pnckney had been captured by the South
CarolrR troops Fort Pulaski, tho defense Of Savannah,
with twenty thousand stand Of had been seized BY
the Alabama troops Fort Morgan, In MsbIle Bay had
Orleans had been captured by the Louisiana troops the
& 1eih & AjnS sn Smd o boa hp1ss m hs been taken
troops though Arkansas had refused to sccede and
pubic property In Texas to the state authorities.
Such, as we prove by incontestabe Rebel au-
thority, were among the events preceding Mr..
LincOlns inauguration Six weeks thereafter,
Fort SUMTER under deliberate aud repeated
orders from the Confederate War office, was bonn
barded, reduced, and captured by Confederate
cannon and Mr.. JeT. Dayiss Secretary of War
thereupon proclaimed, in public harangue at
Montgomery that they would have Washington
city within month. All this preceded Presi-
dent LinCons Proclamation calling for seventy
five thousand volunteers.
Now, then, let MS suppose that some other
power besides the Confederate had invested, bonn
barded, and reduced Fort Sumter exactly as the
Confederate did and had thercupon proclaimed
its determination to do the same with Wash
ngton city forthwith, would the Virginia mag
mates have expected the President TO await the
assembling Of Congress mot yet chosen) before
calling ont a force to resist that Of the enemy
Suppose the Frce-State men Of Kansas had
driven out the Federal forces In 1868 would
they have expected the President to await d
declaration of war by Congress before striking
| back Is il not plain that these gentlemen pro
Ceed upon the assumption that the slAveholding
arisiocracy Of the South are the natural supcrior
of the people Of the North, and as such entitled
to do to us as they would allow neither us moi
any other people to do to them? Aud this is JUS
| the ConCeit that will have to be thrashed out o
them before there can be any lasting peace be
tween us.