Smyrna times., 1861-07-25

over that desolated land the hand of infuriated
passion and crime is waving, with vulure's
scream for blood the sword of civil war. And
thls Is the Pandemonium which some would
have transferred to Kentucky.
THE UNION ONE AND INDIvIsIBLE, AT ALL HAz-
ARDS.
Bot am not here 10 discuss this PROPOSE.
lion TO night. | wish soemny to declare be-
lore you and the world, that am for this Union
"lthout conditions, one and indvsible, now
and forever. | am for its preservation at any
and every cost Of blood and treasure against
all It's assailants. / kuow no neutrality be-
tween my country and its foes, whether they
De foreign or domestic; no neutrality between
'hat glorious flag which now floats over us and
the lhgrateS and traitors who would trampe il
III the dust. My prayer is tor victory, complete,
enduring and overwhelming, to the armies Of
the republic over all its enemies. am against
any and every compromise that NAV be proDos
ed to be made under the guns Of the reaeIs
whhe at the same time am decidedly in favor
OF aHordng every reasonable guarantee for
the safely OF Southern institutions, which the
! honest convictions OF the peopc-uot the CON
spIrators-ofthe South NAV demand, Dheaeter
they ShdH lag d0Un their arms, but not UntU
Then The arb,trament of the sword has been
dehantIy thrust into the face OF the Government
ard the CT untry, and there is no honorable es.
cape from it,
All guarantees and all attempts at adjust
tAeht by amendments TO the Constitution are
now scornuIly rejected, and the leaders of the
rebellion openly proclaim that they are fighting
Tor their independence. In this contem2luous
REJECTION OF guarantees and in this ayowal of
the objects of the rebellion now so audaciousy
MADE we have complete exposure Of that
ir1ud which, through the slavery agitation has
Fnfs fIpfnI Il
last hfteen or twenty years. In the light of
+ this revelation we feel as one awakened from
the SufiocaiIng torIures of a nightmare, and re.
allLe what baseless dream our epprehensions
nave been, and Of what traitorous swinde we
nave Oeen made the victims. They are tiqht.
! ing t0r their independence Independence oc
what independence Ofthose laws which thew
themselves have aided in enacting; independ-
ence OF that Constitution which their fathers
framed and 10 which they are parties and sub.
Ject Oy inheritance ; independence of that be.
hehcent Government on whose treasury ami
honors they have grown strong and ilustrious
Hheh man commits a robbery on the high
way, or murder in the dark, he thereby de.
clares his independence ofthe laws under which
! ne lives, and OF The society of which he is
member. Should he, when arraigned, avow
and Justify the offence, he thereby becomes the
advocate 0t the Independence he has thus de.
cIared; ana 1t he re5lsts by force of arms the
ohcer, When dragging him TO tie prison, the
penItentlary or the gallows, he is thereby fight.
/ ing Tor the independence he has thus declared
and advocated; and such is the condition Of
( the conspIrators at the South at this moment
I IL is no longer question OF Southern rights
! which nave never been violated, nor OF security
/ OF southern institutions, which we know per-
fectIy we'll have never been interiered with by
I q /
/ question purely OF national existence
In meeting the terrible issue which rebel
lion has made Up with the loyal men ofIhe
country, we stand upon ground infinitely boye
all party lines and party plalforms-ground as
sublime as that on which our fathers stood when
/ lhey t0ughtthe battles Ofthe Revolution. am for
throwing INTO the contest thus forced upon Us
all the material and moral resources and cner-
gles OF the nation, in order that the struggle
may be brief and as little sanguinary as poss
lble. 1t is hoped that we shall soon see in the
held half million OF patriotic volunteers.
marching IN columns which will be perfectly
/ irresistible, and, born in their hands-ior 70
purpose OF conquest or subiugation but Of p-o-
lection only-we may expect within nine
months to see the stars and stripes floating in
every Southern breeze, and hear roio1 10,
wild as the storm, the eXultant shout Of Tint
emancIpated people over their dciverance
from the revolutionary terror and deeDotism.
by which they are now tormented and oppres.
sed.
The war, conducted on such scale. will
net cost exceeding four or five hundreds mil
lions OF dollars; and none need be startled Mt
the vastness of this expenditure. The debt
thus created will press but slightly upon us;
II VIII be paid and gladly paid by postcrty, who
VIII make the best bargain which has been
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to themselves, in its integrity and bessnos
such Government as this, at such a COST
But II ~ this anticipation we are doomed to dis.
appointment; 1t the people Of the United States
nave already become SO degenerate may |
not say SO craven-ln the presence ofthcir foes
as to surrender up this Republic to be dismern.
bered and subverted by the traitors who have
reared the standard of revolt against, it, then
, trust the volume of American history NAV be
closed and sealed up forever, and that those
who shall survive this national humiliation
will take unto themselves some other name
some name having no relation to the past, no
relation to our great ancestors, no relation 10
those monuments ard battle fields which com
memorate alike their heroIsm, their loyalty
and their glory.
THE TERM "sUBMIssIoNIsTs."
Boa with the curled lip of scorn we are told
by the Dsunionists, that in thus supporting
Republican Administration in its endeaVors to
uphold the Constitution and laws we are Sub.
missionsts," and when they have pronounced
this word, they suppose they have imputed to
us the sum of ell human abasement. Well,
let it be confessed we are " Submissionists,"
and weak and spirlless, as il may be deemed
by some, we glory in the position we occupy.
For example: the law says, "Thou shalt not
steal :" we submit to this law, md would not,
for the worlds worth, rob our neighbor of his
forts, his arsenals, his arms, his munitions Of
war, his hospital stores, or anything that is his
Indeed, so impressed are we with the obliga-
tions of this law, that we should no more thiak
of pIundering from our neighbor half a million
of dollars because found in one of his unpro-
: tected mints, than we would think of flching
a purse from his pockets in crowded thorough.
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