Smyrna times., 1862-10-23
Qommunicated.l
Communicatcd)
10 the Honest Portion of the Demo.
cratic Party of Delaware,
No. 8.

NO. 5.
| Fellow cItlzcnS-another reason whv ask vou
no longer to vote the Democratic ticket. is tho ;n,
nnent pers Of the future that loom IN. and already
cast their dark shadow DER our State iftbis
ShaI succeed in carrying The Stats on the 4th dav
OF November next You do not, you can not doubt
that this party at least in the State of Delaware if not
everywhere, favors this Southern rcbeIlion. vou
know that the Democratic Senators in the Coporo.s
OF the United States from this State have done moth
ing 10 support the Government Of your Country in
'n'S fearful struggle. You know they have done all
they could to embarrass and perpex the government
that the party has endorsed the actions of those
Senators and you know that that pa rty fthev have
the power IN the State, will use that power in ,be
future, to procure division of the Country: an i'm
mediate acknowledgment Of the Independence of
the So1thern Confederacy; treating with them as
ioreIgn nation. And they tell you that the bles
sings of peace, sweet peace, which all SO earnestly
desire will be secured. You have looked as have
looked with feelings Of ndsscribls pain on this fra
tricidal contest, in whSh brothers hand !, rod
with the gushing gore of brothers heart: and Won
nave lohged as have longed for the hour when this
most unnecessary and unnatural conflict shall cease
You have dcPlored as have deplorsd the vast CT.
Pendlturo that has been made, and the taxation and
burdens that must ensue. advocate a policy that
gives hope for releffom those burdens in the ,ture
you support party whose policy would make those
burdens continue while the two governments you
would see formed endured. Let, for the sake of the
argument, your division line be agreed to- and the
south tecome an independent nation--is it not man.
est lint ftyO, Al.
oy no natural line, would constantly look upon each
other with feelings of suspicion That each would
be striving for advantage over the other. and COR.
stant feeling of worry and watchfu suspicion wopI
shape the policy Of both governments. What result
would follow: Large standing armies and heavy ma.
vies would be maintained by each, and the peone Of
both would, for all time to conc, even in time of
peace, be subIecl TO all the expenses Of war ready
t. defend themselves and the masses ground too,,L
with taxes from which the future would afford M
hope of relief Nor is this all. The continued nres
eucc aho prePonderating influence Of large armies
would hnay render the military superior to the civil
power and some able, popular and ambitious general
would eventually seZe the rens of power and crent
despotIsm to rival any under which anv conntrv
OF the world ever groaned, in both sections of this
fair land oi ours that you and have exulted in as
the chosen abode of human liberty. This would be
the result OF could be preserved after the sepa
raiIon do you doubt it Tread the history oGrecce
and Rome and you will doubt no longer Sucb
would be the fate from DIVISION with the mast bore
ful view the future affords. But peace of long du.
ration after division is an utter possbility. Look
at the elements OF strife that stand out in bold relief
Not only the feelings Of envy and watchul SUSPICION
of which have spoken look at a republic with ifs
boast and glory that all were freemen who trod its
soil, divided by an immaginary line of thousands of
miles from sister republic whose boast would he
that it had African slavery for its cornerstone No
fugitive slave law for the rendition ofslayes who
could escape from their masters by walking across
this immdginary line; no pospect no hope of anv
treaty for their return; dread of return restng non
the slaves mind to deter him from atemps to escape
They would escape by tens of thousand, pursued by
their masters, in armed bands to force their return:
secreted defended by the citizens of the free re-
public, who does not that fierce and relentless
war, ere twelve months had elapsed, would again
raVage the entire borderl Again, do YOU not know
that The men with whom you are voting, while they
tell you they do not wish Delaware to secede Iook ,
to Dclaware's future secession as their ground of
hope.
Are these men blind enough, mad enough to 20, :
ns they have from the first gone in favor of seces.
sion, in favor Of the humiliation of their Govern.
ment' with the view expectation that they and 7.
their children shall live forever under that flag thew
have trailed in the dust and revied and detes,ed
No! no.! they are not such madmen as this. They
are blindly, incurablv mad hnt thsra i. % ,,o,L
heir Madness, and they expect Join their Southern
brethren whom they have hoped ell; ctually in
their rebellion so soon as the suspicious nomen,
arrives 6r hea 70 DO 90. wsat thea apolhsr I