Smyrna times., 1862-06-05

correspondent of the New York Times
writing from Ohio. says
The object Of my former letters on this sub.
ject was To show, first, that Slavery in the |
South, (as in all slave countries, throughout |
human history,) crea'ed an arislocracy 4; sec |
OndLy, that this aristocracy exists not merely |
to the blacks, but among the whites, and
produced lis greatest effect on them; and
thirdly, that this state Of society is in direct
aatagonlsm to the Democracy, which is the
basis of Northern society. | showed by Stats
teal facts. that the power, property aed edu-
cation OF the South was IN comparatively few
persons, and that four ht,hs of the wh''.s were,
10 tact without power, and goveTend by the
ether fifth.
Let me give you one Of three incidental illus.
tratIOns which the war brings out. We have
IN Ohio thousands of prisoners, and in the hos
pitals hundreds of the rebel wounded. lady
who visits Camp Dennison, to comfort the suf-
ferng-wheiher friend or foe-relates TO me
many thing said by the poor wounded prisoners
! Ii seems that not one in ten of them know
what they are fighting for, or have any heart
| in the war Que OF them says: There we
| foot and iout, and what were we foulng for-
brother Ggln brother, foutIng-tOhat do our big
! men care for US z" Another saya: 1--WE
had much better waited little longer to sec
what would be done. Why didn't they wait =!
Why Lincoln has done nothing gin the Con.
| stItuiiOn." These men are the following" "
of the srstocracy entirely by it.
But here comes another man-fiery, despe.
rate aud malicious. lie calls all the Northern
people AbOlIliunists," aud is ready TO fight
them, now an forever, with the intensity of
hate which belongs only to the devils That
man, whether poor or rich, STAKEHOLDER or not,
belongs to the arslocracy. He is intelligent
He knows what he is fighting for. lie is fight.
ing for the existence OF his order. He sees
that there is an autagonism of ideas between
D Freedom and Slavery, which nothing on eartt
can reconcile. lie sees the powers OF numbers
i in the North increasing, without the possibility
ofanV future resistance. lie sees il restrict
i ing Slavery in the Territories. He sees it abou
} 10 denationalize Slavery ut the very momen
= when the South, by corrup,ing the Democrat,
j. Party, had apparently accomplished all its oh
!, iects; at the very moment when the Suprem
Court of the Uuited States, bending it's integri
: " TO what seemed the National will, had mad
a decree whose effect was TO natonalze Slave
r rv. AT that moment the peope-lhe tru
; PEOPLE, still true to human Tights--vind Icate
Freedom, and overturned, we trust forever
q that vast fabric of political power which tn
y Southern aristocracy had been half centur
e building up.
t, This was nothing TO the poor whites of tn
, South, who didn't belong to the aristocracy
q but with what feelings DO you think it wa
receiyed by those who did The constructio
70 they put upon it was right. You might as we
n expect to raise ancient Tyre from the submerl
,. ING waves, or Rome, the NIobe of nations,
is it's anceut supremacy, as to restore the arstoC
r racy of Slavery to its former power in the Coy
10 eminent of the United States. What then r,
:, mains of that proud class who had trample
q. both blacks and whites under their feet wit
In immunity! Nothing but a Government
az Freedom, or a separation from it. What woul
v. be the choise Of Toombs, who threatened I
ia call the roll Of his slaves under Bunker Hill
10 OF Rhett and Beniamin, with their plantation
ne of slaves! Of Mason, and Hunter. and Cob
We and Yancey, and Floyd, with their hatred of III
he North and their aspiring ambition? VIII
m. would be the answer of thousands more, trail
Sc ing in their company? They chose separate
at with the hazards of war, but probably not b.
lieving war absolutely inevitable. Won
lT. Iher If us, observing patient ass crouchir
We down to his master, and bending under b
he burden, expect him to spring up with The teroC
nd ~ OF lion, only because we puta lite more
es. his load! So had the South seen the unresi'
ed inc patience Of the North. We had submits
no. to out the seat OF Government in slave d
trict. We had bought slave territory.
had gone to war with Mexico for slave Slal'