ertain 18IN, the newly clected President, 14 Stringfiell, Him is, on his way to Ceard at Washin on, or the 11th of February, 1: it ad een reported date rtam conspicy to sassinat, bun was organized (which afterwedsj to be trea, and es he approa bed the Cap tải v a dirt route from the ono proposed, wid City of Washington in disguise, and before #ted, thus thwarting the pla 1 ༥་་ The greatest preparations Pinangaration Verg %din : will.o mpanies, mumbe an hechy. the 4th of Man by 1913, Head Le in end re the i after Mr. Lincol, rewd his tock the ecessary oath of office was declared President of the United States, while Mr. Buchanan retired from the highest position in the American Government to be forgotten forever; or, if remembered, only to be execrated by an injured people. As he departed from the halls of the Nation, the past power, influence and corruption of the party he represented took its flight, never to return, unless in a form so helpless and corrupt that it could neither injure nor deceive. The Republican party, for the first time in the history of the country, were in power, and the Democracy in all the Free States completely overthrown. The new party came into power surrounded with an ocean of unprecedented difficulties. The fifteen Slave. States had not participated in the fall election, or rather had refused to vote for Lincoln, and already a number of them had confederated themselves together and established a hostile Government. They had, in January preceding, levied war against the United States by firing upon the steamship Star of the West as she was entering Charleston harbor. The standard bearer of the new administration entered cheerfully upon his duties. He selected his Cabinet from among the truest patriots and statesmen of the Republic. (See Appendix.) Neither in the platform upon which he was elected nor in his address was there anything that could, by any possibility, be construed to mean an infringement upon the rights of the people of any section. But the leaders of the Slave States had declared that they would not serve under Republican rule. The second act of aggression by the South was the attack on Fort Sumter. This was made by General Beauregard, on the order of the Secretary of War of the |