The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday April 18, 1861 Volume 2, Number 35 WAR BEGUN! The Traitors Fire the First Gun! Fort Sumter Attacked! Anderson Returns Fire! Sumter’s Wall Breached! The Fort in Flames!---Its Guns Silenced! Surrender of the Fort and Garrison! Not a Life Lost in the Conflict. Major Anderson and His Command Embark for New York The Port of Charleston Blockaded Fort Pickens Re-Enforced The President’s Proclamation 15,000 Volunteers Wanted!! The War has been commenced! The blow which we have been awaiting, but which we would fain have averted has fallen! The so-called Southern Confederacy has plunged the country into a war that must be, indeed, terrible; for it will be the death struggle between Freedom and Slavery. Hostilities have been precipitated by the Traitors, with them the dreadful responsibility will rest. But this war now thrust upon us must be prosecuted to a stern and definite conclusion. No Compromises nor Concessions will avail now. Stern Justice must be meted out to those who have incurred the penalty of Treason, which is death, by levying war against the Federal Government. Union and Freedom is our battle-cry; Disunion and Slavery, the Traitors. Fort Sumter has been lost, but Liberty is saved. The end is not yet! Proclamation of the President 75,000 Volunteers Called For! Special Meeting of Congress! Washington City, April 14---Whereas, the laws of the United States, have been, for some time past, and are now, opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the Marshals by law, Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in virtue of the powers in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forthwith, 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 the said combination and “cause the laws to be duly executed.” The details of this object will be immediately communicated to the State authorities, through 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 the popular Government and to redress the wrongs already too long endured. I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to Repossess the Forts, place and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event, the utmost care will be observed consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation of, or interference with the property or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the county. And I hereby command the persons composing the combination aforesaid to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes, within twenty days from this date. Deeming that the present conditions of public affairs presents an “extraordinary occasion,” I do hereby convene both Houses of Congress. The Senators and Representatives are therefore summoned to assemble at their respective chambers at twelve o’clock noon on Thursday, THE FOURTH OF JULY NEXT, then and there to consider and determine such measures as, in their wisdom, the public safety and interest may seem to demand. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and cause the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this fifteen day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-fifth. Abraham Lincoln, President Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State The following are the requisitions of the President upon the governors of the several States for military to act in the maintenance of the Union: New York, seventeen regiments; Pennsylvania, sixteen; Illinois, six; Indiana, six; Missouri, four; Kentucky, four; Ohio, thirteen; Tennessee, two; Massachusetts, two; Wisconsin, one; Minnesota, one; Iowa, one; Connecticut, one; Rhode Island, one; Vermont, one; Maine, one. In all 75 regiments of 1000 men each. _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008