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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1961)
THE Secessionlsfs Repel Vessel For Ft. Sumter By PHILIP VAN DOREN STERN Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. ' One hundred years ago this eountry was in the midst of the most serious crisis in its history After many - threats, South Carolina had seceded from the Union Dec. 20, 1860 to declare her self tempor arily an in- pendent republic. She expected ether Southern states to join her in forming a new nation. Things were stirring in Charles ton, where the state legislature had voted for secession. As soon as the decision reached the peo ple outside the convention hall. an eyewitness reported: "The whole city was wild with excitement as the news spread like wildfire through its streets. Busi ness was suspended everywhere: the peals of the church bells min gling with salvos of artillery from the Citadel. Old men ran shout ing down the street. "Everyone entitled to it ap peared at once in uniform. "In less than IS minutes after its passage, the principal news paper of Charleston had placed in the hands of the eager multi tude a copy of the Ordinance of Secession. Private residences were illuminated, while military organ izations marched in every direc tion, the music of their bands lost amid the shouts of the people.' The city kept boiling with ex citement for days. Charleston was news world news and its people knew it. It was there, rather than any other place in the South, that trouble could be expected, for the four forts guarding the harbor were federal property. That is, the federal government had built them, but South Carolina now re- garded them as hers. And she wanted to be rid of the little garrison of U.S. Army troops headed by Maj. Robert Anderson which was occupying old Fort Moultrie on the north side of the harbor. Moultrie was half-drifted over with sand which had piled so high against its walls that any one could walk up them and gain access to the fort. A mile southwest of Moultrie was Fort Sumter, a huge stpne structure wnicn was sun unnn ished although men had been working on it for more than 30 years. It stood in the entrance of the harbor completely sur rounded by water, and it was so strong as four years of war were to show that if it had all its guns it could have defended Charleston by itself. It made the other three forts obsolete. Anderson had arrived in Charleston during the previous month. Few people there knew him, but his record showed that he was a Kentuckian who married a girl from Georgia. The record also showed that he had a long and honorable career and could, be depended on to do his duty. The only question was: what was his duty as a Southern born officer of the United Stales Army? That question was answered with dramatic suddenness on the day after Christmas, when An derson moved his garrison from Moultrie to Sumter, spiked the guns he left behind and burned their wooden carriages. Charleston people were incensed by what he did especially since a Southerner had done it. Sober second thought, however, made them realize that Anderson and his small band of men could do very little in the enormous fort which had only a few guns mount ed. The garrison would be isolat ed there and would soon be atarved out. South Carolina troops promptly seized the other forts; then a new battery was built on the Ocean shore east of Sumter where M r a mm am Bonna m m u wi v- U V UUUUU U J Li X II If U 0 1 FIRING ON the Star of the Watt from the sandhill bat. tary on Morris Island. D Exploration Is Main Oil Question, Says Hatfield SALEM APi Oregon is going to thai oil company. But. the gov-1 concerned 10 nave io necinc m lietiici- to por-jcrnor added, the law must spclr with over regulating It at this urn aim encourage on ex)ioiuiioiiOiit public protection even u that point. 7 ie iw-n i.uv. on company gets me lease. I Secretary of slate lion ell Appl- Mark 0. Hatfield said rnday. 0mo oil is found in Oregon, in Jr.. a "former Texan, said ho uiscussing tlie controversy oxer Hatfield said, "we can be more Iliad lived in an oil moduiino stale uie proposeo. leasing oi uregun s demanding." 25 years anil was -aware that uu lidelands, Hatfield taiil: "I am! The ,u ,i.im i:,,.; n, dor Droiicr rcculation oil uroduc Oregon Legislature, he said, is lion a"d recital ion can be com with finding oil Ihaniand drilling methods will 'not re sult in the destruction of Oregon's scenic coast line. more concerned as to whether we even have oil." "We don't have public funds for exploration, he said. "We havcislate's beaches to depend on private conipanies'developmcnt. whether it will permit the exten sion of oil pipelines over the for lideland oil to do this If it is determined that oil is present in Oregon, the public in terest uould be protected through me proper rovallies, he said The governor said that if a com pany conies into Oregon and spends $1 million on exploration As chairman of the state Land resources." pletely compatible "Our principle interest at this stage of (lie game," Appling said, "should bi? to develop our natural Roard, which would handle anv offshore oil leasing, Hatfield said he was in agreement with the1 fundamental principles expressed by Francis J. Hortig Slate Treasurer Howard Bolton. the third member of the board, said "1 have been conscious of the fact that these modern meth ods i of drilling) are not as oh Hortig. executive officer of the ieclionable as they were 30 or 40 California Lands Commission, Ivcars aco." Hatfield said modern exploration Klamath Falls thenjhe state has an obligation said that Oregon should lie more HERALD AM) NEWS, Ore. Sunday, January 8, 1961 PAGE 7-A SHEEP CALM HORSES NEW YORK (AP)-Goats, roos ters, dogs and cats have been (ompanions for the thoroughbred but in South Africa two trainers have discovered that sheep have calming effect on horses. Fleur, a high strung Cape Town horse, and Exultant, a Johannes burg horse, havo been sleeping uiu eating with sheep as com panions, report the South Afri can Wool Roard. Mary's Bargain Shoppe MOVING TO 4709 So. 6th Not la . 1th Looker! S5BTIHB1M. its guns could command the ship channel leading into the harbor. Cadets from the Charleston Cita del were called upon to construct the smokestack and the w alking- beam. The ship kept going until she this battery in the sand hills and.was ncar Fort Mouitrie. Thcn hcr man its guns. It was hardly finished when in formation leaked out from Wash captain saw a steamer towing an armed sailing vessel coming to ward hun. He quickly chanced ington that the federal govern- his mind and ordered the wheel ment was sending a chartered , swunc over. The Star of the West turned and headed back. The cadets on Morris Island cheered but never slackened their loading and firing. When they had fired 17 shots in all, the steamer steamship, the Star of the West, to Charleston with troops to re inforce Anderson's garrison. Sup plies and ammunition would ob viously come with them. The night of Jan. 8-9 was a; was out of range and the guns tense one in Charleston. The city was swarming with soldiers and recruiting posters were urging all able-bodied men to join the Army of the Republic of South Carolina. Guard-boats patrolled the dark waters of the harbor; except for1 a small light on Fort Sumter, all buoys and navigational aids had been removed; and. since it was the dark of the moon the night was unusually black. Sentinels on Morris Island where the cadets from the Cita del stood ready to use their new ly mounted guns, kept looking out to sea, eager to spot the re lief ship from the North. The steamship Governor Clinch had run outside in order to announce the arrival of the Star of West by firing rockets. The federal relief ship had ar rived off the harbor at 1:30 a.m., Jan. 9, but since she carried no lights no one saw her in the dark had night. She wailed until the sky began to lighten; then she lurnea lowara me entrance io ine,(jon harbor. The Governor Clinch ran in ahead of hcr, displaying one blue and two red signal lights and: sending up rockets as she went. Bugles blew in the cadets' camp at Morris Island, and a red palmetto flag was run up to greet the dawn. The young cadets grim ly took their places at their guns and watched the Star of the West come oip the channel with her big twin paddlcwhecls making the wa ter foam. As she came within range, a cannon cracked angrily in the dawn light, smoke drifted over the sand dunes and a solid shot went bounding across the water in front of the rapidly advancing steamer. She did not slow down at the warning, but displayed1 a huge American flag. The cadets kept firing. One of their shots hit the steamer's hull a glancing blow just below the fore-chains, where a sailor was quieted down. The first cannon shots of the Civil War had been fired. While they roared out, the guns at Fort Sumter had remained sileifl. In just 93 days on April 1 they too, would speak to answer the guns in the surrounding forts Only 93 days of peace were left During that short time, many young men would plow their fields for the last time, and some of the fields they plowed would grow a strange new crop. CHARLESTON EXTRA: i't4 . lnnaM W LIS e'rtork, P..W. ' '- .4 ORDIS 4.YCE . .. T lUuatm Srtavr : "Tnlc pf SmUh Cttrotlnd mt i : Other XnU$ wtltrj trltk ker r I If ntuifmrt ratttal TV . I " . . ' . ' ONLT ABOUT six ot these Charleston secession posters are known to exist. A good one is worth mora than $1,000. Filibuster Fight Holds Spotlight D-Ga , told newsmen the South erners were "not stalling." He added that as a practical matter WASHINGTON (API The per- A spokesman for the Southern u. unnial fiohl to Avi. means nf blOC, ten. Richard B. KUSSell choking off filibusters holds center-stage In the Senate. In the wings, activity mounts as bushels of bills are introduced, some of them considered top pri ority by the incoming administra- of President-elect John F. Kennedy. A lull in the filibuster fight oc curs today when the House and Senate meet in joint session. They will count the votes cast by presi dential electors in their state Capitols on Dec. 19. To no one's surprise, Kennedy will be proclaimed the winner. The announcement will be made by the man he defeated, Vice President Richard M. Nixon. On the filibuster front, the Sen- ale agreed Thursday by voice i vote to take up the proposed rules changes. Senators proposing a clamp on filibusters maintained at a new is required. Among bills introduced in the Senate Thursday were these: A $389.5-million measure for de pressed areas. Sen. Paul H. Don li ne coum noi see now any voie(iaSi d-111., its chief sponsor, said it is a top item on the Kennedy program. A $1.9-billion federal aid to edu cation proposal, carrying grants could be taken before next week By then, a compromise move may gain greater backing. This plan would permit a time limit to be imposed on debates by three-'for school construction and teach- fifths of the senators present and er salaries, by Sen. Pat McNa- votlng. Now a two-thirds margin imara, D-Mich. U.S. Challenges Russia To Lower Travel Curbs WASHINGTON (UPI) - The United Slates challenged Russia today to agree to the abolition or 1959. Among the major changes an nounced today was the closing to reduction of travel curbs within1 Soviet nationals and officials of the tun countries as a major step-1 the cities ot St. Louis, Houston, toward easing East-West suspi cions and tensions. It made the proposal in sug gesting an early Soviet-American Phoenix, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Wichita, Kan. Some major cities previously closed to the Russians were re conference to tackle the problem. 'opened. They were San Francis- ;tu . !.. n 1. fct T . ' conference that there was no dan ger the issue itself could bog down the Senate past Kennedy's Jan. 20 inauguration. co. BrooKlvn. ivewarK, N.J.; Co lumbus and Canton, Ohio; St Paul, Minn.; Seattle. Providence, h.acn country now prohibits nu lionals of the other from enter ing certain forbidden areas. At the same time, the State! R. 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