Smyrna times., 1861-05-02
Opinions of che Northern Press.

| UPlnlonS OF tne N0rCnern FtosS'
The New York Times, in an article on The
North Unit in Support of the Government,
says: ~
OWL war ruBs counter to the theory of the
Republic. The trainers OF our Government
made such provisions as would forever render
shown how easily this Government can be in.
ducod to change its rulers. if any good reason
for doing so was presented, and earnestly and
persistently forced upon public opinion.
Ia entering upon this struggle, the great
community of Free States does SO, prepared TO
! bri g to bear on the vindicaton of its national
honor inexbausIable material resources. He
census shows returns which, under other cir
cumstances, would have been the wonder Of
the world 1t has, indeed, been declared by
tlmId croakers that war is national ruin."-
This is an absurd chimera, The Free States
are richer and more populous than Eng land
was under Pitt, when she fought the loug
hight with Napoleon, and vastly stronger than
France when she battled trium phantly against
all the Coutinental powers.
AS 10 moral force, il panoplies the Republic
as with wall of fire. She enters the contest
with that triple arming which justice gives to
cause.
The Philadelphia Evening Journal. in dis
cussing the difficulties between Marylsnd and
the Government, says:
Every town in Maryland should be invested
with troops Immediately. We are in the midst
OF war, we take no note of peoples feelings
south of the line. We want no trucking. The
hOrdes of Northern freemen are advancing,
two hundred and fifty thousand strong. We
want the road clear to our capitol, through
Baltimore, at all hazards.
We want the Government to realize the
tact that it has one of the strongest armies and
naVles IN the world to back it. This armV will
not recognize treason anywhere, except upon
The gallows. 1t wants ybody to be for it,
or against ii, and no armed neutrality of trait.
ors in any State; it will give no arms to Ken.
tucklans, except they open their State for the
purpose OF the passing of loyal troops unmo.
Tested, or for arming men to fight for their
country's honor. The people of the United
States claim to have Jurisdiction over every
foot of land in the Union, or near it, and thew
will hold it at the point Of the bayenet, if ne
cessary. On to the Capitol, yeomen of the
North, through Baltimore, or through its
smouldering ruins
The National Republican advocates imme.
date coercion, and says:
There is to be no peace except upon the ba-
sis of the unqualified submission of those in re-
volt. There is 10 be no recognition of any
pretended Southern Confederacy. There is to
be no peaceoblc assent to a separation of these
states. The Government is to be mainta ined
10 that plain, straightforward way in which all
governments are maintained, by cOerci0n.-
Inc leaders OF this conspiracy are to be driven
out oil the country. or to be hanged, and never
did coHsplrators anywhere and at any time,
more richly deserve the fate which awaits
them. They have attempted the overthrow of
the freest and best Government on earth. by
the most fagitious means, and with a view to
the establishment Of grinding military des.
potlsm. Their crime has been gigantic, and
their punishment 10 to be signal.
The World criticizes the speech made BY
Phillips, the Abolitionist, in Boston. Phillips
says:
To-day, therefore,. the question is, By the
voice of the South: Shall Washington or
Montgomery own the eontinent?' And the
North says: From the gulf to the pole, the
stars and stripes shall atone to four millions OF
negroes, whom we have forgotten for seventy
years; and, before you break the Union, we
Will see that justice 10 done to the slave"
The World remarks:
The Southern rebels may learn, hem these
words OF their life-losg enemy. what they have
refused to hsten to from those who have beer
their friends. If they persist in their rebelli
GUS attempt to overthrow the Constitution, anc
despise the muniments and defenses which The
Constitution has thrown about the peculiar in
stitutIon. il is not to the Constitution and it,
supporters that they can appeal in the day o
their calamity.