Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-28


that Support which every government has
right to demand of its citizens, Withheld,
and Wishes for its failure to suppress the
rebellion extended We have heard sue.
cess wished to those traitors now warning
against Unioh, who would, if in their pow
er, lay waste our smiling and luxuriant fields,
burn, our towns, and spread misery and
famine Throughout our State, =; and have
heard them defended by these very citizens
who have received such ample protection
from the. government, and bid God-speed
in their reasonable work. -.,....
When we calmly. and nationally consider
the noble protection, and impartial nom
interference of our government with the
people of Delaware, and contrast this with
the abuse, contempt and utter disregard
which that same government has met with
from large portion of the people of that
State, we feel astonished that this base in
gratitude, has not brought down upon the
heads of all in the State, the wrath of an
outraged and insulted country.
The man who cannot see the great favors
bestowed upon us, or, seeing them, has no
gratitude to offer the giver, is destitute of.
all noble feelings which characterize the true
man. If we review the course of one so
narrow and contracted, we shall, more than
likely find him to have been bitter parti-
IAN, one, who, having attached himself to
party, blindly obeyed all its behests, and
who had buried for its sake all his nobler
qualities We shall find in him, all the
promptings of conscience disregarded when
such promptings conficted with the inter
lists of his party. We shall find in him the
love of country, which once buried in his
breast, smothered, because the majority of
the party he has adhered to through life is
engaged in destroying his country, and as
before he blindly follows in its path, forget
ting that in doing so, he is committing
treason by encouraging traitors. In excuse
for all this he will tell you that the Presi-
dent of the United States has suspended
the writ of habeas corpus, and in sundry
other ways violated the Constitution of the
country, forgetting that Jefferson Davis, the
rebel chief, and the man he is encouraging,
is waging damnable war against that very
Constitution which he processes to love SO
much. He will tell you that the President
of the United States intends freeing all the
negroes, forgetting that the acts of the
South have contributed more to bring about
that event, than all other things combined.
Oh! that blind infatuation that leads men
itho such errors, as disregarding the call.
of duty, as unheeding the demands of rea.
son, as burying all feelings of gratitude
How long will the people of Delaware fol
low such infatuation? How long will they
be partisans and not patriots
Men of Delaware, foremost in the ranks
of our Revolutionary patriots, were your
forefathers. With. pride we have referred
to their noblr deeds, time and again Are
you now going to act in such a way, as,
instead of having your names spoken of will
pride by your descendants, they will be re
member only in execration and scorn---as
names that blindly obeyed the call of party
while their bleeding country was sufferin,
for their support. If not, cease your sup
port of secession, throw away the vile doc
trine which would ruin your country, an
show by your deeds and words, that yo
have buried that party feeling which mad
you guilty of such black ingratitude to you
government, and now give your undivide
, and unqualified support for its preservation
Then will you be worthy sons of illustr
Gus sires, and the peans which you have S
often sung in honor of your Revolutionar
fathers will be chanted by your descendant
> in your honor, long after you shall hay
been numbered among the dead.