The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Iodam wilmington. were seized by a portion
of Col CantwelIs regiment. OWING oie-
n,,rts of coming troops. North OaFoIiha
also voted $500, 900 to arm the state. Jan
nary 9th. Mississippi seeded; every mem
her of Convention signing the ordinance.
VIRGINIA called a convention. Inc same
dav dav buchanan, angered at the failure OF
his attempted deception of the Chariesto-
mans. sent a message TO congress uecit.inS
his intention to collect the revenue, ENFORCE
the laws. etc., In the seeded states. 1hlo
in plain terms warned the latter 10 pIeHa.o
for invasion. As a close sequence, next day,
January 10TH Florida seeded, by a vote
Of 60 to I: and Louisiana seized Forts
Jackson. St. Phillip, and Pike; the Arsenal,
etc. She also ordered the enrolling OF ooo
soldiers for four months, and accepted loan
of $50. 900 rendered by the New Orleans
banks. South Carolina Legislature resolved
that anv attempt to reinforce Sumpter would
he taken as an act of war. On the 18th,
Alabama seeded by a vote OF 81 to 50. big
ratification meetings were held In all the
large cities. Federal Buildings IN st. LOUIS
garrisoned by I. S. Regulars. New 1ork
Legislature unanimously rendered men and
money to Buchanan to coerce the south:
under pretence of reinforcing the laws"
January 18th, Ohio Legislature rendered the
s'entire power and resources Of the State =
for the same purpose. Under this date,
Governor John ". Ellis, of North Carolina,
wrote in his private diary published after
his DEATH 1T is the settled conviction OF the
people of the South, that 1t Is the purpose
of the Abolition party to make war upon
them. and attempt their subjugation as soon
as they come into power, and that the mill
tary advisers of Mr.. Buchanan have initiated
that policy Governor Pettus, of Missis-
sippi, the same day established a camp at
Vicksburg to prevent Federal troops going
down to reinforce the Louisiana forts. Flor
ida seized the Navy-yard, and Fort Baran-
dered to vastly superior numbers. But,
here as at Sumpter, the Southerners placed
undue confidence in the old-time honor Of
the 'Army Officer" Lieut.. A. J. Stem
mer, in charge of Fort McRae, refused to be
bound by the surrender of his superior, and
slipped off to Fort Pickens, on Santa Rosa
Island, and by the aid of a detachment Of
soldiers, sailors and marines, secured pos
session. This act of Slemmer's made him a
copartner with Anderson in the adulation Of
the Abolitionists. The fort was not retaken,
and was the only haifacre of Southern soil
that never left the shadow of the Federal
flag.
January 18th, Ex-Gov. Thomas, of Mary
land, having resigned as Secretary of the
Treasury, John A. Dix, of New York, took
his place, and began to urge Buchanan to
warlike measures. His Geographic order
to Jones, at New Orleans, to ''shoot on the
spot any man attempting to haul down the
old flag, at once uplifted him among the
cheap heroes of the hour. BY his orders
the armed steamer Broohlyn sailed along the
Southern coast for a fortnight, causing all
manner OF reports, and stirring the war fe-
yer.
January 18th, Massachusetts, unanimously
offered to Buchanan her men and money for
coercion, under the usual pretence. New
Jersey ordered her military put on a war
footing. Virginia voted a million dollars for
State defense.
January 10th, Georgia withdrew her star
from the Union by vote of POS to 80. Of
the latter, all but about one dozen signed
the Ordinance. Great rejoicings were re-
ported throughout the State. North Caro-
lima sent North to buy arms.
The same day, Virginia adopted conserya-
tive resolutions, and urged the States to an
point delegates to a peace Congress- in
Washington Feb: 4th. A large meeting in
New York called for compromise. AiasI
there was nc hope
~"CRIITENDEN's COMPROMISE"
The defeat of Crittenden's celebrated plan
OF adj ustment, from which SO much was
expected by the conservative masses of the
country, deserves particular mention here.
Senator C%rlttenden, Of Kentucky, a disc;nle
OF Henry Clay, and an ardent lover of the
Onlon, realizing that a number of the South
ern States would secede, and probably all Of
them, unless the question of slavery should
be forever put at rest by constitutional euar-
antees, introduced, on the 18th of Deem
Der, a set OF resolutions providing for a Geo
graphical line entirely across the cont;nse e.
south OF which line Congress should have
no power to abolish, or interfere with. nearo
servltude. This was virtually a simnIe sero
nh;a1 dro of the missouri Compromise,
of @'5 Iatit urs~ Az q s'm5 haf Inc following parallel
farther than that. Mr.. Crittenden nrouo arr
to draw the line from Atlantic to Po Pacific
allowing the Abolitionists all the ter rHnv,
north OF it, and forbidding Congress s't to ;r.
ter1ere with slavery south of it. In this. %
IN every other Cn-colol Lis; a.