Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-02-24
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The cradle Of treason has rocked over -
Charleston is ours! Over Fort Sumter the
Old Flag floats again, proudcr than cver
South Carolina, in her hot bed at Charles
ton, passed the fist Secession Ordinance on
the Goth Of December. 1860. At half past
A. NJ, January 9Th. 1861. The steamship
Star Of the West was signallrd at the en-
trance Of Charleston harbor. As she made
her way toward Fort Sumter, a shot was
sent across her how from battery on Nor.
rs' Island, when she displayed the United
States flag, aud VAS repeatedly fired into
from the Morris Island battery and from
Fort Moultrie. Her course was then altered
and she again put o,sea. AT 4:30 A. ~, of
April l2th, the rebels opened fire on Fort
Sumter The next day at 1856 p. N. after
being CALAMITY dcGndcd for thirty four
hours by Major Anderson and his galan.
little baud. the flag was hauled dowr and the
Fort surrendered.
Thus the great rebellion began at Charles
ion four years ago.
Major Anderson with a mere handful Of
men defended lis post to the last extremity
against 1000 arrogant rebels. Then, when
The rebels are about to be the besieged par.
ty, they ignominiously sneak off in the
night, before their enemy has yet reached
the gates of their hellish city. And this in
the face Of all the observations that Charles.
ton would be held though the heavens fell.
and all the braggadocia about the last ditch
and the last man.
Poor rebels their game is well nigh up.
Perhaps they would be pleased to be remind.
ed of Jefferson Davis reply to Abraham
Lincoln's Proclamation for men:
Fort Sumter is Ours. and nobody is hurt.
With mortar, Paixhan, and pr'ard. we ten.
der 'Old Abe our Beau regard."-- Charlestoa
Mercury.
They do not feel so jolly now indeed
they are obliged to whistle constantly to
KEEP their courage up.
The Chicago Tribune speaking OF the fall
Of Charleston suggests that " il would be an
act of retributive Justice TO rae It TO the
ground and SOW the soil so fertile Of treason
with more harmless crop of weeds, or like
the fate Of Sodom and Gcmorrah, leave
pile Of ashes as the on'y memsnto Of wha,
was once the home Of treason"
Charleston now is almost entirely in ruins
The houses in the lower part Of the city had
been completely riddled by our shot and
shell. The rebels just previous to their
evacuation fred the upper part Of the city,
and it WAS supposed that wo.thirds Of the
town would he burned before the flames
could be subducd. The fertifcations were
uninjured. 1t was evidently the full iuten.
ton of the rebels to carry ont their oft re-
peated threa', that if Charleston ever was
surrendered it would be surrendered in ash.
es. In exploding their magazines and at.
tempting to destroy the city, hundreds Of
their defenceless citizens were murdered
Their action was barbareus and iuhuman.-
They bit their own nose to spite the hated
ton were. entirely in ashes, and we'll they
ought to know it. They called us demons
for burning Atlanta but We did not burn it
without giving sufficient notice to the citi
Gems to enable them to leave in safety. Blu,
the chivalric rebels fred their own city, and
mangled, blackened, and burned their own
deFtnsciess INDECENT people, women and chill
dren, and old men, who wi,hno notice what,
ever were compelled to submit to the shame.
full dcmonism. Their action is revolving to
contemplate. Even the Union troops, as
much as they hate and loathe the birth place
Of treason. would not have acted 50 grossly
inhunan.