Year: 1861

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The secessionists have sadlymisconstru


ed the public. sentiment of the Free States.


They have been so beside themselves as


TO think the entire Democratic party Of the


North sympathise with them even to the


wish for dissolution; they have also eyre


giously overrated the Abolition strength


of the Free Ststes-whose creed is that


Union with Shareholders is not worth pre-


servlng-and they even have become so in


sane as to expect armed aid and comfort
| from the Democratic armies from the Free


States. The discovery of their error will


be the saddest hour of their lives, for such


a response will be made to a call TO arms


to sustain the Union as shall soon convince
them that the North, in its devotion,


knows nopolitical parties.


True, Democracy has played the coquette


in most desperate struggle for retention


of power, and we believe that could that


party, even by a bloodless revolution,
giant the secessionists all they ask under
o reconstruction of the present Union, it
would be glad to do so; but when it comes
down to the plain question Of an armed
attempt to overthrow the Government and
to depose constitutionally elected Presi-
dent, the apolgists in that part will be very
few, and the adherents of secession fewer
STILL Already at the sound of the first
CUR, and while the news from the seat Of
conflict is vague and uncertain, do the
Democratic papers rally under the Stars
and Stripes, and keep step to the music Of
the Union.


The Plain Dealer of this city says:


1t is our country. 1t belongs neither to
the Cotton or Congo party land when its
existence is endangered, as now, by these
rival sections, we have got an active and q
patriotic duty to perform. What is that
duty? 1t is this U1tder any President
legally elected, under any administration
coustitutionaRy recognized as the Govsrx-
ment de tacto, the flag of the Rebu5lic, the
Stars and Stripes, mast be triumphantly
sustained orer all its enemies, foreign or
domestic.


So we say, God speed the Federal forces
at Fort Sumter! Let. the whole powero
the Government be brought TO bear upon
the rebels who first fred upon an unarmed
vessel on peaceful mission of supplying
provision to our furnishing troops, and who
offered the first insult ever unavenged, fo
the American flag. Let our war vessels
be summoned to act. in concert with
Sumter, and open their fire upon the
enemy, batter down their Forts, burn
their towns and send our conquering PEN
ants all along the coasts until our rights
as Nation are vindicated and cotton be
gotten into subsection to Congress and the
Constitution.


The Cincinnati Enquirer, than which no
Democratic paper North has been more
violentin condemning the efforts to check
the spread of Slavery, and than which no
paper has been more ready to grant every
humiliation the slave power might demand,
avows its sympathy with the glorious
Stars and Stripes as follows:


"From the despatch it appears that the
Southern Army commenced the attack up
on Fort Sumter and before any hostile
demonstrations had been made upon them.
They broke the status quo which has SO
long prevailed, and upon them clearly
rests the immediate responsibility for the
bloody strike which has been -inagurated.
They are the aggressors in first break
ing the peace, and will receive the indig-
nant condemnation of every patriot. The
onus of fault they cannot choke of.


While we look to the future with dread
and apprehension. while We deplore the
sad state of things which exists, we reiter-
ate sentiment we have before expressed
that if war ard bloodshed rage through.
out the land, making it desolate, our'sym-
pathies will be with the stars and stripes.
We hope no dishonor will fall upon thas
happen what may.


The Delaware( Obiol Standard, astrong,
uncompromising Democratic paper, says:


From the news received this morning we
have the startling intelligence th@ civil
war has been inagurated by the seceeding
States. Whatever may have been our
views hitherto, this event has changed
them, for we intend to stand by the Gov
erment in the maintenance of law, and
putting down treason wherever found,
North, South, East OF West. For ID
present we are done with politics, and shall
strive in our humble manner to support
the Government under which we live, and
to which were sworn to be loyal on be-
coming a citizen. Therefore, veal or wo,
we shall stand by the 'Stars and Stripes.


As an exception to this general burst of
patriotic devotion to the Union comes q
tory cry from the Columbus Statesman.-
That paper evidently would delight in see.
ing Washington in possession of the trait.
ors. Recollect this ispenned twelve hours
after it is certainly known that the secess-
ionists have opened fire on Sumter. We
have now and thena traitor among US, and
he who o-penued the article in the Statesman
is one of them. The Statesman says:


What means all this military preparation
at the seat of our Federal Government
The people are not permitted to know. The
Administration proceeds with the cautious
secrecy of the most arbitrary despotic court,
and acts as though it suspected every cit.
izen of the District of Columbia who en-.
rolls himself as volunteer in the force
which the President and Gen. Scott are
raising fer the alleged protection of WASH
ington, is required to take an oath of al
Ieeiance to the United States, and of obe-
dance to the President and the officers
by his authority. No wonder