Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-03-20
THE DOOM OF TORIES.

In all reyolutions during all for freedom or for religion there have been traitors and tories No cause was so pure but some were found to be- tray it; no struggle holy but traitors deserted it. Out of the chosen twelve, one was Judas. How a man can be tory in the pre- e'ent struggle is matter of surprise to reaecting man. If it was possible for the Nor Il to succeed, we should have d military despotisIn erected oyerUs for ages. The people of the South would be exterminated or exiled, and those who succeed Us would be crushed beneath cuorm us taxes, the fellows ot slaves and degraded minions of tyrantS. If the South falls constitutional liberty to exist on this continent; the hands of the clock of time will be pat back for centuries, and despotsm be every ahele in the ascendant. We are fighting for free dom, for honor, for homes and for our children
 To be false to these, is to be false to all that is good Yet we hear Of tot.es in the South, things wearing tie sem1ance of manhood and supposed to possess souls, who would truckie to the tyrant and buy present safety for their miserable carcass or property, by bending their knees to the oppres sor l. there is one of this class within reach of these words we beg 10 tell him something of the in evtable doom that awaits hlm.
 In the persecution of the early Christians, some renounced their religion to save their lives. The testimony of all writers is to the effect that these renegades pershed miserably. Coming down the descent of years, we find traitors and betrayers of their country mentioned in all histories. The fate of these men is invariably the same. Despsed by their masters and hated by those whom they be- trayed, they dragged on a wretched existence, or met speedy death. It is singular fact that these renegades often perish by the hands of their new friends If they are quiet they are suspected and soon got rid of. If they are demonstrative, they get in somebody way and are quickly disposed of In some cases, like that of Arnold, they are paid the price of treason and suffered to sink to an gno mnous grave.
 In the present war, the tory may endeavor to save his property by lowing his neck to the yoke and claiming to be neutral. But there can be no neutrality in such a contest.
 He flat dallies is a dastard,
 He that doubts is damned" The so-caled neutral man is placed between two fires, and one or the other will destroy him. Ad- init, for the sake O argument, that the northern programme is carried out, and does any man sup pose that will end the war? While hundred men are left in State, they will keep up partizan warfare and it has been truly said, that the young est child to day may live to be grey haired man. and vet not live to sec the enc of this war. Fathers will transmit their hatred of the North to their children, and dedicate them to a war of ex termination against their oppressors. The waves of war will obb and flow. Look at Missouri. The tories there welcomed Lyon's army and were ex ultant Price came and they fled in terror, or staid in sulen silence Again the federAls came, rob binr and plundering, and spared not their tory friends. Beegared and ruined, these same tories ! sit around their cheerIess homes quakng with fear that the waves of war will again surge over and ! engulph them.
 The fate of the tory in such war as this is tie most dreadful of any. The federals want his pro- perty. Ina. is their ultimate object. For awhile ! they make show of respect for private property, | but once masters of the country they will trump up some charge of treason, and seize all the poor wretch possesses. When the federal armies are driven from the land, as sooner or later they will be, the patriots will have no mercy on the torv.- In either event, he loses all. In the revolutionary war, after 2 struggle of eight years, when our  armies were beaten time and again. and all looked more dark aud gloomy than it has since the present war commenced, the tories were in constant dread. and at last, when freedom was won, they had lost everything Many went to Nova Scotia, to Eng land or elsewhere, while others were permitted to remain, an outcast race, despised and stigmatised to their graves. Such the one in which we are engaged, is never ended until independence is won It may be delayed, deferred, continued it may be carried on sullenly against heavy odds for years-the cause may languish and the fire ap- pear to be nearly extinct, but eventually it bursts forth again and consumes all before it.
 If the South puts forth all her energies now this war will come to an end this summer; if not, we may not live to see the end. But, in either case, .he doom of the traitor and the tory is the same. He or his children will reap as they SOW.
 If men would save their property they must fight for it. If their lives, so worthless to others, precious to themselves, they must learn that the surest way to save them is to risk them on the bat