A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ulation of Sumter wasused to inflame the Northern mind. The cry was raisedthat the flag, the emblem of the Federal Union, had beenfired upon; the Confederates were denounced as traitors,and those who through long years had declared the Union a covenant with death and a league with hell becamethe loudest advocates of a -perpetual and indestructibleunion, which must be maintained at all hazards. Theresponsibility for the war was shifted from those who History of Virginia and Virginians. 177 began it, by the attempt to forcibly reinforce Su
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . ulation of Sumter wasused to inflame the Northern mind. The cry was raisedthat the flag, the emblem of the Federal Union, had beenfired upon; the Confederates were denounced as traitors,and those who through long years had declared the Union a covenant with death and a league with hell becamethe loudest advocates of a -perpetual and indestructibleunion, which must be maintained at all hazards. Theresponsibility for the war was shifted from those who History of Virginia and Virginians. 177 began it, by the attempt to forcibly reinforce Sumter,tothe Confederates, who, having due notice of the cominginvasion, took such measures as would prevent the lodg-ment of a hostile army in the strongest fortress withintheir territory, acting upon the well-established principleof public law that the aggressor in war is not the firstwho uses force, but the first who renders force Call for Troops.—President Lincoln issued hisproclamation April 15th, calling upon the several States. THE WHITE-HOUSE OF THE CONFEDERACY, NOW THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL BUILDING. for their respective quotas of 75,000 men to suppresscombinations in the seceded States too powerful for thelaw to contend with. The governors of the NorthernStates promptly responded to the call, and the governorsof the slaveholding States as promptly declined ; forwhich they had a precedent in the action of the governorof Massachusetts, who, in the war of 1812, refused the12 178 History of Virginia and Virginians. request of the president of the United States for its quotaof miUtia to defend the country against a foreign began to be gathered at Washington under Gen-eral Scott; at Chambersburg, Pa., under General Patter-son ; near Wheeling, Va., under General McClellan, andunder General Butler at Fortress Monroe. These fourarmies were to be directed against Virginia, and the Con-federates made haste to meet the threatened were se
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