To Rensselaer Gazette From Milroy Feb 6 1861

              for the Rensselaer Gazette Feb. 6. 1861

 
 
Prepair for war
 
Fellow Citizens

 
 
	The glorious Flag of our country 
has been fired upon, torn down by traitor hands & trampled upon with 
permitted impunity. The Sovereignty of our government has been 
insulted - treated with contempt, defied & set aside within 
its own rightful limits by traitors or by disappointed demagogues whose motto is to  
rule or ruin. Treason & rebellion have raised their 
viper’s heads under a strange banners within six of the 
southern states of our Union.* The time has come to test 
the strength of our government: to determine whether it is a  
roap of sand that will tumble into discordant fragm= 
ents before the first breath of organized treason & like Mexico & 
central & south America become the scorn & contempt 
of the great nations of the World Earth, or whether it is to continue 
to be that government whose gigantic progress is the wonder 
of the World & has no parallel in history & whose example 
is melting the thrones & despotisms of Europe & Asia.

 
 
Within the next thirty days the imbecile administration 
whose pusillanimous conduct has given strength and   
confidence to this impious treason will have expired & a new 
administration, pledged that the union must & shall 
be preserved will have commenced. The new administration 
will doubtless require thousands of volunteers to assist 
in crushing out this rebellion & restoring the displaced 
sovereignty of the government. Volunteers in the Union 
States should therefore be every where organized & ready at 
a moments warning. It is desired to organize a 
Company of said volunteers in Rensselaer. All those who