Smyrna times., 1861-06-13
An Undivided Country.

Az the war into which we are thrown with |
.ueh volenee progresses. the thick mist that
IA, covered up sad hid from public view the
OoIev of those in authority is lifting itself and
,.,dering clearer the object that actuaIes the
A.,e,mined efforts to put dowR the rebellion.
The reticency of these in power in regard TO
N. uestment of the great question, dad have
, ersa. effect in creating distrust in the Bor-
A,r Soulhern States, and thousands who really |
Io,ed ,hs Unios, while in this state of suspence.
we're caught up and carried along in the great
vhirl Of secession. Whatever may have been |
their fears and belief in regard to it's being a
sectional light, subjugation. determination, or
an effort on the part Of the Government, back
ed by the North, to crush out their domestic
institutions, it is now clearly the object OF those
in sulherity to simply maintain the entirety of
the Union. This we Judge from the proclana.
tons OF Generals Butler, McClsIlan, Patterson
and others, to the Virginians. whose soil they
hsse invaded, and who, of course. get their or
dess from cad quarters. The masses Of Meth.
e, section have understood each other, and
bsues the great divergence. Confidence has
asss. and each believes the other 10 be actua.
led hy the basest motives. The difficulty on
the psrt the South has been that the speeches
and editorials of a few blsek-hearted men at
the North haze been taken up as the index
view Of the masses, and the Interpretation of
the policy Of the Administration. and these
being caught up BY the seeessionist and spread
before the people with the almost inevitable
affirmation, =" told you So, has had wonder.
ful effort in strengthening the ranks Of scces-
sion. Msny have been dragged into it who
knew. at the same time, that they were max
ing great sacrifices IN forsaking the old Union.
These. we hope, will return TO Their wonted
love aud devotion to the UNION, when they
ind the Government WiH throw around them
the broad Ggis of its protection. They will
then learn that the friends of the Union can
not be considered as a party, nor can they pro.
perly be charged with the pursuit Of any party
purpose. In the breaking up of the old party
lines. which certainly has been accomplished,
the questions that have arisen are those of
Uni0a aud bisunE6u The friends of the Union
are The supporters OF the Constitution and the
lGws--lhs uphOlders of the Government the
country, the whole country. In thus support
ing the Union to this day-to this period in the
crIss-Nhen the Confederate States are united
under form of government, and in the field
wIlh their troops 10 order TO sustain that gov
sTnne0t--we hesitate not to speak OF a Union
OF thirty. oar States and to say that in all the
controversy 10 this time, we have not consld-
cred the interests Of the North. the South, the
East or the West, but of all the States in their
Unlon, under one Government and one Consti-
tuIiOn.
The war that is in progress, thoug n at first
haTIng much of the appearance, cannot be ad-
mIlted 10 be q war of the North against the
South, or Of the South against the North. Ii
Ma war Of certain States IN secession from
other States. and from the Union. under form
Of government against the Government Of the
unlted States. Had the seeding States been
thOse Of the North, instead ofIhose Of the South
se should have been just as much opposed to
their secession. 10 their revolt from the Union
ahd the Constitution, we should have felt bound
10 condemn their movement. and prevent it il
possible. In the support of Union, and oppos-
ing Of alspnion. we take no side with the North
We condemn the North for anything and every
tsing We consider wrong IN this issue. we
condemn the bitterness of feeling and opposi
ten which the North eVinces against thu
South, Just as much as we do the same bitter
ness OF opposition evinced by the South agains
The North. We approve of the sentiment
Asd eforts Of the North, only so far as theI
support the Uniou, the Constitution and tht
Governnsut Of the United States in their in
tegThy.
We have nothing to do with sections ant
seetl0uiliIies as such except so far as they sup
port OF denouncs The Union, and endeaVor t
Do II service or damage 10 the service {
tue DniOn we approve of the work of the sec
non, while we dehounce the sectionalities, an
u the damage Of the Union we dsnounce alik
the secI'on and the sectionaliIy. We do n,
approve OF secIIonalism of any kind in its Eeli
tIon to our Government and it's free institution
u 10 the Union ss Washington and the olh'
Revolutionary fathers made it. and as the
zen q. that we are coatending for. II is Il
Constitution that Washington and the Rev
l0tionHFT fathers framed aud that the Stat
snd people Of the States ado pied, aud that b.
been the palladium Of American liberty
more than eishtE.fou years, that we suppo
ana dasire shall be perpeiuated to the late
genemtson of American posgeriiy.
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