Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-17
WHAT was THOUGHT IN CHARLESTON IN
1894

I901.
Time brings ma ny changes. The paper thai
! in 1861 gave vent to the following outburst o
braggadocio and treason is now migratory
Institution, aud before it ends its wandering,
may witness as many transfers of location al
the Memphis -Murfreesboro-G Grenada. Jackson
Atlantn- Griffin Appeal:
THE NINTH OF JANUARY, 1861.
From the Charleston Mercury.l
Great events crowd rapidly one upon an.
other. Three short weeks ago and the great
est of the century upon the Western Hemis
phere was transacted in Charleston. The
Union of the States of North America was
dissolved by the action of the State of South
Carolina.
1t appears to be decree of history that up
on all great revolutions or changes of the
Government of people, the red seal of blood
must be set. Yesterday, the 9Th day of Jan
uary, will be a memorable day in history
Powder has been burned over the decree oil
our State, timber has been crushed, perhaps
blood spilled. South Carolina still maintains
her liberties and her independence whilst there
is "a single shot in her lockers Blind in
fatuation is driving our enemies forward, and
stroke by STROKE the liberties of the South are
being welded and cemented together.
The expulsion of the steamer Star of the
West, from the Charleston harbor, yesterday
morning, was the opening of the ball of the
Revolution. We are proud that our harbor
has been so honoGed. We are more proud
that the State of South Carolina, so long, so
bitterly, so contemporary revied and scoffed
at, above all others, should thus proudly have
thrown back the scof of her enemies. In
trenched upon her soil, she has spoken from
the mouth of her cannon, and not from the
mouths of seurrioue demagogues, fanatice and
scrib blers.
Contemned, the sanctity of her water viola
ted with the hostile purpose of reinforcing
enemies 10 our harbor, she has not hesitated
to strike the first blow, iull in the face of her
iUsulter. Let the United States bear or re-
turn at their good will, the blow still tingling
about her ears, the fruit of her own bandit
temerity. We would not recall or exchange
that blow for millions. 1t has wiped out a
haiti century of seorn and outrage. Again
South Carolina may be proud of her historic
fame and ancestry, without blush upon her
cheek for her present honor.
The naughty echo of her cannon has ere
this reverberated from Maine to Texas,
through every hamlet Of the North and down
along the great waters of the Southwest
The decree has gone forth. Upon every acre
of the peaceful soil of the South armed men
will spring up as the sound breaks upon their
ears, and it will be found that every word of
our insoIeGt ioes has indeed been dragons
teeth, sown for their destruction.
And though greasy and treacherous rui-
fans may cry on the dogs of war, and trait
orous politicians may lend their aid in decep-
tions, South Carolina will stand under her
own palmetto tree, unterri6ed by the snarliDg
growls or the assault of the one, and unde-
tered by the willy Vaccinations of the other.
And if that red sea of blood be still lacking
to the parchment of our liberties, and blood
they want, blood they shall have, and blood
enough to stamp it all in red. For, by the
God OF our Fathers The soil of South Caro-
lima shall be free