Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1861-09-19
Points of announcement.


II is curious how much the view that is ia
zen of a thing is a matter of temperament
Add to this the tendency to sympathy in Ih
way of panic on the one side and citation on tn
other. aud we have large part of the caus
sftse state of feeling in so excitable nation
as ours.
In the presages of the croakers, let Us looI
ct the reasons we have just now for looking a
she bright side.
First of all. we have the grand fact tina
those who control all modern movemeuts-tbe
mOnied men of the country, the men who hold
our hundreds of mi!lions-are determined te
Iustala the Government. Let any man con.
SideE how immeasurably better our condition
is 10 this respect than that of the men of the
Revolution. Then they were at times depep.
dent upon the credit OF a single individual ;
their Continental MOI ey sunk lower and lower
until it was actually at hundred for one
And 1t is noteworthy that with the shtew d eyes
Of fnanciers upon the condition of the public
funds; with all the prophecies about the ne
ce'sary gravtatiOn, CIT is freely bid to-day
for Treasury notes. No country is in a bad
condition with such wonderful credit as this
1t is felt that our resources are almost bound
less, and that beneath the Government as sup
parters are the great bankers, the wealthy mer.
chants, the very strength and prop of our West
cru civilization.
Next is the double fact of the vast erop Of
grain, both Of The last year and the present.
combined With the foreign demand tor bread
stofs
II sa matter of no small consequence that.
except 10 the war expenses Of the Government
inc whole country is economizing. While we
are exporting largely of breadstuffs, our i'm.
ports have not for years been so small. Specie.
therefore; pours in from Europe and California,
aSd what We are buying is mainly of our owu
protection. We are, therefore, both producing
ssd saving. and, accordingly. il Poor Richard
na"y authority in practical poitico.s onomics,
We must be growing rich.
The expenditures Of the Government are not
is be seI down, by any means, as mere waste.
we are not borrowing from abroad, but from
ourselves. The people. in the shape nfindrvid.
ale and corporations, are the creditors Of the
G''ernment. The National Debt, therefore.
10 accordance with the great English idea, will
anehor the Nation. The whole North will be
the creditors of the Government and vast mum.
OsFs OF our own people will have a deep pecu.
mary stake in its preservation. Besides, the
OBJECTS of expenditure are in great measure
domestic. The Departments buy American
clothing, food, wagons, cannon, muskets, lead,
powder, horses. mules, ship-timber, iron, &c,
&c. They furnish employment in the war for
our own people, and support their familes.-
fIVe.slxlbs of these hundreds of millions only
pass BY circuitous process from the people
back again 10 the people. The man who PAYS
YAK TO the Government sells it beef, horses, or
grain; or he furnishes clothing, or in some
other way. direct or indirect, receives back
again what he gives.
IL was said at first that if the Southern
states seeded, the Union was gone, that every
New England would form separate confeder-
aeY; the Middle States would look out for
themselves, and that the West would set I'D
gigantic empire between the Allegheny and
Rocky Mountains. 1t is an unepeakable com.
I'ft 10 Ind that this is utterly baseless. The
foundations of the American Union are granite.
e%eePt Uere they rest on SLAVERY. The more
s'sVsry, the less Union; the lees slavery, the
more Union. The eighteen free States are as
a'm'y united now as they ever were at any
period 10 DOR history. And honor 10 Kentuc.
she stands for the Union against innumer.
ss'e temptations. So does Delaware; and
Missouri aud Maryland are certain. So far is
pe'ee'ly clear. Here are twenty .two States
?. whom there is not doubt that they will ali
DC IN The Union. Ksnawha or Virginia is GER
t''n 10 be another. which gives US twenty.
sa'se States beyond contingency. Then there
s'e Tue vast territories lying between these
S's'es' out Of which as many more can be car.
'so' This we mention, on the principle of re-
-Oaoung The blessings that are left, when some
lOsi.
Ane President calls US TO recognize as e ma.
sSsn' That there is a power higher than the
saest Let us do il. Let US obey His laws,
ps iour,h commandment among the rest
So'n'ag dsepens people like religion. We
'aou'd like regiment like Cromwel's Iron.
"oss' or one Of the cid Covenanters. II il
ao"dess0l how men fight when they fear nei.
"'sr man nor devil. but only God.
Then tits grand to feel the heart ofthe nation
s'snne awe ieel ii nov. 1t is gssud to see
ssseyes mois,sn as they look up at their
's' ~" gesnd to be infolded in enc over.
~s'nf wars sfpatriolism grand to reelihe
rs year own bosom psss through svesy
s"'' iFem ihe Atlantic to the Pacific. No |.
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