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me again and I will spare Victor St.
John, and not rend him as I do this
letter.”
lie tore the letter to-shreds and
scattered them from his hand.
“ I will promise anything!” cried
Rosetta.
“ Those who promise too freely per
form but feebly,” said Raul,' sternly.
“ Remember this my daughter —#hat
though Viola llartly may be a grand
lady, and the heiress of a rich father’s
wealth, there is a jewel that shines as
fair, and is as precious in the bosom
of„tho wiue-scller’s daughter as in the
crown of a C[ueon —and men call it
purity! You have it my child ; keep
it as your mother kept it, and let it go
■with you to the grave —nay, rather,
than lose it, fly with it to the grave.”
The stern dignity of his voice and
attitude terrified his daughter. She
murmured :
“Father, I swear to obey you.”
“I will trust you, Rosetta, —and
xiever forget that the honor of Paul
Amar cannot be lost to him by bis
child, without driving him mad. Has
Victor John St. John promised to make
you liis wife V’
' “Do you think I could become less
to him or to any man ?” exclaimed
Rosetta, indignantly. _ ■
Paul smiled a proud sfhile.and kissed
his cThild’s quivering lips.
“You evade my question, and sq I
am answered well. He would deceive
you as he has others.
“ Others!” exclaimed Rosetta, stand
ing erect, and looking half-crazed.—
“ Others !-He has deceited others?”
“He counts them off upon his lin
gers,” said Paul, with a bitter laugfc
•• I’ve heard him many a time—and,
base fool that I was, laughed to hear
him—never dreaming that, he aimed
to place Rosetta Amar upon the tally.”.
“ You are striving to make me hate
him.”
“ Would to Heaven I could. Rut,
as I live, I have used nothing but
truth.” t , .
“ Leave mo now, my father,
Rosetta. “ I shall feel better.alone.”
“ Good niglit, my child,” were Paul’s
parting words, sealed a kiss ; and
as he heard Rosetta lock her door_ as
he descended the stairs for
he continued : ...
“ Renditto’s hand shall be free to do
what my promise bind aenot to do.”
[TO BE COSTISCED IX OCR NEXT.]
THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUTH.
BY MARY A'. W.
For improvement of the mind, youth
is the proper season. The mind is
then free from all trouble-, and ready
to receive any - impyessiomand our
YWciaory is also
ments of study*" In youth there is
sometimes a modesty and ductility,
and if those years have been deft a
prey to ignorance, will be filled witn
self-sufficiency, prejudice, and close
up all the inlets of knowledge. Un
less we acquire habits of attention and
application in our youthful days, we
will not acquire them afterwards. —
There are not many young people in
the world that reflect upon this subject, j
nor its great los3 until they know it
cannot be retrieved. Youth is the j.
time for improvement, and the sooner
the mind is cultivated, the better.—
The great use of knowledge in youth
is to free the mind from the prejudice
of ignorance and to give it juster
and more enlarged conceptions, than
are the mere growth of rude nature.
It requires diligent labor, to pro
duce cultivated knowledge, as it
does to till the ground. The farmer
cultivates the ground in the proper
season, so it should he with tlie young.
Youth is the proper season for im
provement, and spring for cultivation
of the earth. By hard labor we fill,
those vacancies of mind which in a-’
state of idleness, would become ten
anted by vice. Now is our golden age..
We are now in the bloom of life; our
minds are tender, and ready for study.
If our minds must be employed in
something, 'what can fill its vacancies
more rationally than the study of
knowledge. By reading we acquire
information, it also add’s more to our
cultivation. . It has become notorious
in these days, for the young to think,
that they know more than those of
advanced age. If their parents give
them a little advice, about studying
and trying to learn all they can while
young, and try to improve their minds,
they think it all foolishness for them
to study when young; they say they
have plenty of time after they should
be grown. They also think tiny; they
are too wise to learn, and are too im
patient to deliberate, too forward to
be restrained, so that they plunge
with precipitant indiscretion, into the
midst of all the dangers with which
life abounds. . Reflect, that when en
tering on the career of life that it is
not your duty to assume therVeins into
your hands ; #Ut to commit yourselves
to the guidance of the more experi
enced, and to become wise by the wis
dom of those who have gone before
you. Young friends, we are now in
most early intercourse with the world,
and in all our youthful amusements
let no unfairness be found, dot us re
member always that the years which
are now passing rapidly over pur
heads, leave permanent memorials be
hind them. From the thoughtless
mind they may escape, but they for
ever remain in the remembrance of
our "Creator.
Greenville Masonic Female Collect.
[Communicated ]
PATRIOTfSM.
A flag pole and a Southern Confed
eracy flag was raised at the Cedar
Rock Academy, Friday, April 12th,
according to the following programme:
Bolt—prepared by J. Bulger,
raided by Judge M. Andrews and
others.
Flag made by Mrs. 11. T. G. Tup
per and Mrs. M. Webb, raised by
Willis McLendon.
Prologue spoken by Willis McLen
don :
If we perchance, In otir endeavor
To gain fiorn you a kind applause,
Should err, ascribe ihe fault to us, but never
Feel the less for this noble, sacred cause*
Address to the Goddess of Liberty,
personified by Bettie Render, spoken
by Wm. Sims:
All hail! thon Goddess, beauteous bright,
Os all that will or can be free,
Thee we welcome to the light,
And crown thee Goddess—Liberty.
Palsied be that dastard arm,
That will not raise itself for thjee,- •
ToMefend thee from all barm,
* Thou Heaven-born Goddess—Laberty.
Live on, oh ! yes forever live,
b nd may no bosom ever be
Bereft of fire you can give.
Or cease to breathe out Liberty.
Invocation to the Southern Confed
eracy Flag, spoken by A. J. Snel-
Aon :
Then sacred emU'e”™ of our freedom !
Heaw tby bo?om to the breeze] ,
Stronfr yAhis are ready whtn you need them,
To stamp thy power on foreign seas.
Let mad funatics fear and tremble,
If they our land dare invade,
They'll see you wave, we don’t dissemble,
Nor do we trust in vain parade.
Each hearthstone bears an arm that's stronger,
Than standing armies’ glittering steel,
Eaeh bosom holds a heart that’s warmer
I'lian hired millions dare to feel.
Where are brighter hearts and purer,
Than are clustering at tby feet 1
Wh're the rewatd of valor surer.
Than thy del nders..e’er. will meet ?
In peace all beauty, in war triumphant,
Thou must and shalt forever wave,
Thmigh foes rush on thee wild and rampant
Thou leadest to “victory or the grave.”
Wltile fields arc shedding snowy fleeces,
V 'st tin u, with honor, lift thy crest,
\\ by country’s wealth increases
May'st thou slumber od her breast.
. spoken'by Wood More-
Hanj :
Dear friends, you’ve heard wknt we have said,
• To patriots we’ve made our first appeal,
' Still, if our hearts we’ve rightly read,
You know not yet but half we feel.
Exercises concluded with a song—
“ The Wood Nymphs ” —sung .liy the
Misses Andrews, McLendon, Sims‘
Moreland and Render, and the Messrs.
Sims, Snelson and McLepdon:
“Ilark ! ’tis the breeze of twilight, calling
. Earth’s wearied pilgrims to repose,”
Leaves that tremble on the mountain,
.Catch the zephyr as it goes.
Rill? are hubb'ing sweetest music,
Whispering purity and peace;
Birds are chirping in the branches,
Shadowing forth a sweet release.
While we wander 'neath the shadows,
Os wild Nature’s brightest .sheen,
We see the vale spread outierfeath us,
•' Bathed in purest, brightest^reen-:
Tints of the blue sky above us,
Tearing t« een the quivering leaves,
Till our hearts with sweet emotion,
Fiercest passions must appease.
Deadest fiiends that used to greet ns,
Till our rtlem’ries running o’er,
Nelar again on earth will meet us
Pointing back to life before.
But Ob ! my loved ones, let as Cherish
Brightest hope3 and nobler themes,.
Let all pf.vain ambition perish,
To mingle Heaven with all our dreams.
All of the above poetry was written
by Mr. H. T. S. Tupper, A. M., the
Georgian Bard.”
After the conclusion of the literary
exercises, seven guns were fired in
honor of those States which have
raised their arms in defense of their
rights. A. J. S.
ggp* We have received the follow
ing interesting letter from Drum
Major John H. DeLacy, now sta
tioned at Fort Pickens :
Barrancas Barracks. Fla., 1
April 3d., 1861. /
Mr. Editor: Permit ine through
your worthy columns, to answer many
questions, letters, &c., written by my
friends of.-your vicinity, in relation to
the fortifications, forces, &c., of this
place; the-place on which the eyes of
thousands are fixed.
Soon Sumter is to - be surrendered,
to-day or to-morrow. May be, now,
the once noble Anderson is upon his
journey to Washington, to report him
self to His Majesty Col. Abe, for duty
on Northern soil. Fort Pickens, a
little form of brick-bats, sand, oyster
and sea shells, &c., “can’t be taken,”
so all the newspapers say. Allow one
who is acquainted with almost every
inch of the Fort to give you some
ideas:
It is-situated on the extreme West
point of Santa Rosa Island, bounded
on the, jNorth by Fort Barrancas (dis
tance 1 mile 150 yds.) old Light
House sand battery (same distance as
Fort B.) also by the Perote and new
Light' House sand battery, (all the
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-THE GEORGIA WEEKLY.
same distance of Fort Barrancas,)
, bounded on the last "by the “Missis
sippi Guards” of the Sunny South,
and two other sand batteries (tho lat
ter not quite furnished,) distance 1
mile and 228 yds, also by the Navy
Yard, distance 1 mile and J, on the
South by the Gulf of Jjbduaat, Tho
strongest part of the Fort *s-on the
South side, as attack was always ex
pected from this side, as it commands
the channel; consequently the weak
side is exposed to all the raking fires
of our batteries, forts, &c., bounded
on the West side by the frowning
Fortress Mcßae, in command of the
gallant Leo, of Georgia, (my adopted
State) and if I am not mistaken, from
your native city, Atlanta.—{Augusta,
not Atlanta, is our native city.—Ed.]
Fort Pickens is made of the same
material as that of Fort Mcßae and
of Fort Barrancas, not of solid gran
ite 40 feet thick, as you doubtless
have heard, but of brick six feet thick
that is on the side that is exposed to
us, but on the side where the attack
was always expected, is of solid gran
ite. Her large magazines, &c., a few
red hot shot from Barancas_ yould
send old Seimner to the other* Side Y)f
Jordan to the tune of Lilt O'Garie
in double quick time. An old guns
man of theirs tells us that from tho
Mississippi Battevy he can take.down
ten feet of hew walls at every fire.—
Ido the old gentleman injustice in
calling him a gunsman of theirs, but
true to his country, true to the soil of
South Carolina, the land of his birth,
he deserted and now is one of us, and
thrice welcome is he to the ranks of
the first Artillerymen of Alabama.- —
May he, if battle does come, direct
his “Old Bets,” (a gun lie calls his)
so as to take down the 10 feet as lie
says lie can do; he is of the opinion
that when the first gun is fired, the
flag which the sausy little fish smack
called the Wyandotte now carries will
be hoisted in double quick time, (the
flag of truce) and immediately there
on ; the flag of the glorious Southern
Confederacy will succeed; and wave
triumphantly over the aggressors.
Now for the tremendous guns and
quantity of the same, to see so many,
21 guns. Fort Pickens to have so
many guns of such heavy calibre, to
say 20, 64 pounders, and one ten inch
Columbiad. Yankee newspapers tell
you they have 210 guns. You are
made to believe by newspapers and
by the public generally that Fort
Pickens is the strongest fortification
in the world. So it is on the point of
main attack, on the South side, but
Barrancas and Mcßae are equally as
strong on the side exposed to Pickens
while they have not their magazines
exposed, the entire force of men in
ForttPickens is 11© #be
Fort is casemated and consequently
it takes more men to man the guns,
as they cannot stand the fatigue,
housed up more than two hours at a
time, longer -would cause concussion
of the brain, while on the other hand
our men can stand it a whole day and
not be fatigued in the least; now for
the fortification &c., of Barrancas,
this Fort is made of solid masonry of
brick walls six feet thick, mounts 49
guns, has two mortars also (12 inch,)
four of these guns are ten inch Col
umbiads ; this fort if compelled to re
treat can do so by an underground
passage to Fort Redout, distance from
Barraneas sos a mile. Fort Mcßae
is a very strong fortification mounts
41 guns 25, 64, 9 32, 1 18, 4 86 and
2 10 inch Columbiads (or 120 poun
ders) the new Light Ilouije-sand bat
tery has 6 120 pounders (or 6 10 inch
Columbiad) the old Light House Sand
batterv 4 8 inch Columbiad (or 4 86
pounders,) Mississippi Battery 6 10
inch guns ; Pirote Battery 2 10 inch,
“ Guards Sunny South (not finished,)
when finished 2 8 inch Columbiads, 4
10 inch inch Columbiads. Navy
Yard 3 ship’s 32 from off the old Uni
ted States Steamer Fulton 4 32, 2 10
inch Columbians several 12 pounders
and 2 10 inch mortars ‘. of course the
little sabine Wyandottes St. Louis and
Brooklyn are here ; all mount 63 guns
of 32 calibre, some 18 pounders,
The Wyandotte—one shot from a ten
inch would knock her into ten' thou
sand pieces. She lies inside the har
bor close to Fort Pickens; comes in
every day or two after her mails with
a flag of truce, they are very short of
provisions as well as at Fort Sumter,
the Brooklyn went out a few days ago
after supplies. She returned yestur
day; I do not know whether she suc
ceeded or not; all communications
ought to be cut off from the fleet out
side and the little Wyandotte ought to
be sunk ; if I had command of the
forces at this point, I would send the
infernal traitors to the land of nod
with the air Lilt O'Garie, but being
only seventeen years of age and not
so very much experienced in point of
military as Gen. Bax. Bragg, I there
fore release all claims and turn the
matter over to him as he promises to
stop the Wyandotte some time this
week. We have a harbor police es
tablished ; occasionally we overhaul a
shank of mutton or a leg of salt pork
bound for the fleet.
I worry over to Fort Pickens occa-.
sionally to see if they are doing the
thing up brown. I take good care to
keep out of range of the sentinels.
Georye Laic ! whenever old granny
Slemmer catches one of our boys he
very politely sends us back escorted
by six or eight splendid oarsmen.
My compliments to friends W. S.
Williams, H. E. Malone, R. A. S.
Freeman, J. M. McMath and others.
Yours, With great respect,
John H. DeLacy.
Georgia Preldtj.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
That which we asserted weeks ago,
Las become fact. The Southern Com
missioners have left Washington with
out gaining a single iota of that
which they demanded. After weeks
of waiting, hoping, and solicitation,
they have been forced to return home
baffled, tricked, insulted.
Day after day—hour after hour—
they have attended upon the dilatory
and treacherous diplomacy, the vacil
lating policy of Lincoln’s Administra
tion, until the entire South was wrought
into a fever of impatience, anxiety and
anger.
Doubtless it was the purpose of the
Black Republicans to gain time, to feel
the pulse of their party, to attempt to
do that by fraud and duplicity, which
openly they dare not avow. Hut the
vigilance of our government has
thwarted all these well devised’sehemes
of treachery—Fort Sumter lraS'falleq !.
Anderson has capitulated, anil with
liis force, is the prisoner of Gen.
Beauregard.
The victory is a noble prestige of
success for the arms of the Southern
Confederacy, and the 13th of April,
1861, is destined to become as famous
in the annals of the South, as the 19th
of April, 1775, is in those of the
Union of our fathers. What the an
niversary of the Battle of Lexington
was to them, that of the Battle of Fort
Sumter will be to us and our children.
So far as we have been able to as
certain, the victory was achieved with
the death of but one man, and that
man an enemy. But the details of
the strife have not reached us, and the
mere conjecture of one man as regards
its particulars would be out of place
here. Yet, whatever of such may "be
proved fact hereafter, no man can
deny that the capture of Fort Sumter
is but the beginning of the end—that
fearful and appalling end which cul
minates all its dire significance in two
Words— Civil War! Yes, citizens;
the struggle has begun, war has be
gun, war between a kindred, a war
almost of brothers —the fiercest, most
bitter, most vindictive of all wars.
* And who wise enough to dare as
sert when arid how that struggle is to
end ? Some affirm that it will be as
evanescent as the thunderstorm of
summer—a cloud, an explosion, and
then all calm again. May the Ruler
of all so vouchsafe in his infinite mer
cy ! But we are not so sanguine as
to foresee “ a consummation so de
voutly to be wished.” We fear that
a sharp and bitter war has been inau
gurated, and that this unhappy year
of the Union’s history will end ere the
conclusion of the struggle.
It is a common opinion among many
of our people, that the North will not
fight; that she will recoil from the
strife ; that she cannot sustain a war ;
that the episode at Sumter will blanch
with terror the faces of the antagonis
tic administration.
This opinion we do not share. The
North ivill fight, and fight well—for
Fanaticism is never Cowardice !—
There are, of course, cowards among
its devotees, but the spirit of Fanati
cism is a3 void of fear as of truth and
justice. Whilst it lives it wars. Those
who conduct affairs at Washington
have not fqj-ced this war upon us as a
mere experiment. No test was need
ed to try the genuineness of Seces
sion. The fact was as palpable as a
strong blow upon the face of a man.
They were long in arriving at a decis
ion ; hut once there, they are ready
and eager to follow its results. The
mutual enmity of the North and South
has been growing for years ; and like
a volcano, long raging beneath the
earth’s surface, a vent being found,
the devastion of its unbound fury will,
in all human probability, he terrific
and wide-spread beyond all concep
tion.
Pride, if nothing else, will force
the Black Republicans to push the
war at every conceivable point. It is
a struggle that must come sooner or
later, and we must accept and meet it
as a destiny. What Southern patriot
is not willing to meet it, rather than
yield to a hostile and tyrannical gov
ernment ?
Doubtless we shall conquer, for our
cause is just and righteous;
who defend it prefer death to ds|pi&
Such spirit is invincible. But wfihave
no child’s play, no Mexican imbroglio
before us. We are to fight with the
descendants of those whom both North
and South have ever been proud to
claim as ancestors. Greek meets
Greek, and the war .will not be waged
with swords of lath nor bullets of pa
per. We all count much upon the
anti-war party of the North. Let us
not lean too confidently upon that
hope, The history of the Union
proves that the most intense party ha
treds and political enmities of the
country, have been suddenly healed,
hidden or put aside, when a foreign
foe wounded the pride of the nation.
In the present crisis may not all
the parties of the North coalesce, to
avenge the blow that lias smitten the
very- vital# of the Northern people and
of their government ?
If the North does unite, disguise
and garble the truth as many may,
the battle will he serious. But the
South will not wait for the invasion of
the North. The South is not of that
tame mettle which resists only when
trodden upon — the..stfifiei.will he car
ried Northward. As yut we-arje.pow
erless upon the seas, and many ©Four
ports will be at the mercy of a vibttic-.
tiro onqimy. Bui upon tho pail of Our
country we are invincible, and South
ern prowess'will, if the struggle reach
to the bitter end, overleap the North
ern frontiers, and carry fire and sword
into the strongholds of Abolitionism.
Such should be our policy, and must be.
The government we _are to fight is
not tliFencmy to he {despised, and it
were well.that.-eygiv/ man of the South
should hold himself in readiness to an
swer the-summons for* volunteers, to
beat Hack' and chastise a foe, by no
means despfcdbl.h in- prowess, resour
ces or nufnhersi: I's the gage thrown
down so ilefijintly at Charleston on the
13th,- be accepted in the spirit we
firmly helieye it will, by Lincoln and
his Black Republican hordes, there will
be fighting enough during the next
twelve months, to stay the most belli
cose stomach in Georgia.
All eyes are now turned upon the
Border States. If they, or a portion
of them, prove true to their private
and legislative pledges,* our future
will be marked with but little strife.
If they prove recreant to the South,
the war will be all the more arduous,
long and bloody; but the Confederate
States will undoubtedly achieve, in the
end, that glorious independence for
whose defence the first blow was victo
riously struck at Charleston, on April
the 13th, and for whose maintenance
another should be struck, immediately,
at Fort Pickens in Florida. Letthem
continue to fall, until not a single
Southern fort or rampart, from the
Federal City to the Rio Grande, from
the Atlantic and Gulf coast to the
Ohio river, shall he held by any man
owning allegiance to the Black Re
publican Administration.
Later.—Since writing the above
we have received information by let
ter, through kindness of Mnjor 11. E.
Malone, that Old Abe has called for
75,000 men, for immediate service,
and has sworn—he curses like a Tar
tar —that the Southern forts shall he
retaken. In another column it will be
seen that the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania passed the war bill in both
houses, immediately upon hearing of
the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and
that Gov. Curtins signed the bill at
once. It is rumored that Gen. Scott
has informed Lincoln that he will be
found in the ranks of Virginia, and of
the South, if further coercion is at
tempted.
A call for 19,500 more troops has
been made from Montgomery; hut if
it be true that Lincoln has ordered
75,000 Abolitionists into the field, the
next call from Montgomery will prob
ably be for 100,000 men of our side.
There will be no great difficulty in
raising, this host, as the war’ spirit is
intense over all the South, and thous
ands are eager to join those already
summoned to the field.
Latest.—Mr. Abrahams, of Green
ville, has kindly furnished us with the
startling news under the head of “ Spe
cial dispatch to the Southern Confed
eracy,” of Atlanta. By that it will
be seen that Old Abe means tough
fighting. We have not space to com
ment upon this intelligence, as much
of our paper is crowded with news.
Mr. Abrahams informs us that
Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, of Tennes
see, passed through LaGrange to-day
—Monday the 15th—and made a pa
triotic address at the depot. Gen.
Pillow said, that as Lincoln had de
clared liia intention to hang all traitors
and rebels, and as he, Pillow, came
under the ban, he was resolved to be
hanged, if hanged at all, upon the
battle field, fighting against Lincoln ;
and that' he was ready, with 5,000
men of Tennessee, tofight under the
banner of the Confederate States, at
any moment.
Vice-President Stephens was with
Gen. Pillow, and said, in a short
speech .• “ If Lincoln does not change
his policy immediately, within lest
than sixty days he will leave Wash
ington as lie entered it—in disguise,
between two suns !”
We hear that tho Harriet Lane y
U. S. man-of-war, was spnk off Charles
ton harbor, and ’ tfyat Jicr crew ar©
prisoners of war. This is unreliable.
Fort Pickens has been re-inforced
with 1200 men.
Stand to your arms, men of the
South! The word will soon be
Charge ! —and take Lincoln from
Washington, dead or alive ! The Ab
olition cohorts of the North can never
re-possess what rightfully belongs to
the South.
Off to Charleston.
No sooner was our Saturday even
ing extra out than Judges Howard
and Hussey declared their intention to
hasten to Charleston ; and by Sunday
night they were there, we imagine, as
they departed from Greenville in
haste.
Three cheers for the Judges ! We .
have an idea that the old hero of the
Blue Cockade, who has so often de
clared his intention never to doff that
cockade until Fort Sumter was ours
again, has gone to Charleston to doff
it upon the surrendered ramparts.—
May the patriotic Judges return as
bluff and hearty as ever. Could the
old hero of the Blue Cockade and the
strong-armed Hussey get a good grip
on Old Abe’s “ scuff of the neck and
slack of the unmentionables,” we think
he would land on t’other side of Jor
dan forthwith!
Since writing the above we have
been told that Judge Hussey has di
rected his course towards Pensacola.
Luck attend him, and return him safe.
jgg'f” We have received two letters,
dated Montgomery the 15th, from
Judge llussey, but have not space to
publish them. He states that crowds
are flocking to Montgomery, and all
is intense excitement. The general
opinion is, that the Border States will
secede at once. Fort Pickens is tobe
attacked as soon as possible.
jggp* Below we publish Lincoln’s
Proclamation —written Sunday night
in Washington.
Washinton, April 14—10 p. aj.—•
Lincoln will' to-morrow issue the fol
lowing Proclamation :
By the President of the United States—
A PROCLAIWCATIOWr.
Whereas, The laws of the United
States have been for some time past
and now are opposed, and the execu
tion thereof obstructed, in the States
of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama.
Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and
Texas, by combinations too powerful
to he suppressed by the course
of judicial proceedings, or by the pow
ers vested in the Marshal by law-
Now, therefore, I, m mLin-
COLN, President of thewL jPtates,
in virtue of the power by
the Constitution and the laws, have
thought fit to call forth, and hereby
do call forth, the militia of the several
States of the Union to the'aggregate
number of seventy-five thousand, in
order to suppress said combinations
and to cause the laws to be duly
executed. The details for this ob
ject will be immediately communica
ted to the State authorities by the
War Department. I appeal to all
loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and
aid this effort to maintain the honor,
the integrity and the existence of our
National Union and the perpetuity of
popular government, and to redress
the wrongs already long enough en
dured. 1 deem it proper to say that
the first services assigned to the for
ces called forth will probably be to re
possess the forts, places and property
which have been beized from the
Union, and in such an event the ut
most care will be observed, consist
ently with the objects aforesaid, to
avoid any devastation and destruction
of, or interference with, property, or
any disturbance of peaceful citizens in
any part of the country; and I hereby
command the persons composing the
combinations aforesaid to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective
abodes within twenty days from this
date.
Deeming that the present condition
of public affairs present an extraor
dinary occasion, I do hereby, in virtue
of the power in me vested by the Con
stitution, convene both Houses of Con
gress. Senators and Representatives
are therefore summoned to assemble
at their respective Chambers at 12 o’-
clock, noon, on Thursday, the 4th day
of July next, then and there to con
sider and determine such measures
in their wisdom, the public safety and
interest may seem to demand.
In witness whereof, I have hereun
to set my hand, and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this
15th day of April, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-one, and of the in
dependence of the United States
the eighty-fifth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.
Wm. H. Seward, Secretary State.
