Smyrna times., 1862-10-23
Aid and Comfort to the Ensmx.

'' ieason Ior expecting an early peace
:, that the bitterness and animosity existing
between the Northern political parties il
2 daily increasing in intensity" He declares
i that this state of things alone, without {
$ conflict, must obstruct seriously, if not alb
7 Solutely defeat, any efficient prosecution oi
, the war" The view is natural one, and
the rebels have right to take courage from
: IT, Our great strength i'll time past has
oeen the concentration of public feeling
and the distraction Of this feeling threatens
TO be our great weakness in time to come.
The consplratOrs would have never under
taken the rebellion had they anticipated a
"Hded North it is not strange that now, in
their desperate straits, they should hail the
prospect Of divided North, and count upon
a speedy recognition of their independence
| Who is responsible for this encourage
ment to the enemy? The dereliction clear
ly belongs to those who have set themselves
against the Administration are irving
to abrldge its power and embarrass its pol
ICY These are the men who are RESPONSE
ble for the new discOrd in Northern senti-
ment, from which the rebels take such cheer.
Elect enemies of the Administration to
Congress, so that they shall have major
ity in either branch. and they will have not
only the practical direction of the war. but
the very continuance of the war entirely
under their control, by the stopping of sup
plies, or the rejection of any essential mea-
sure. Make such men Governors, and they
could completely baulIl the General Gov
ernment by falling to cooperate in the rails
ing and sending forward of troops. Give
persons OF this spirit a majority in our State
Legislatures, and they might easily start a
plan Tor the amendment Of the Federal Con-
StltutiOn in accordance with the Fifth Arti-
cle' and so open the way to peaceful re-
cognltlon of the secession movement. The
rebel leaders understand perfectly well the
various methods by which party action may
be brought to bear against the proloneation
OF the war, in spite Of the fidelity of Presi-
dent Lincoln to his constitutional oath. Nor
can they be ignorant that this organized de-
velopment OF an opposition spirit increases
the chances of some revolutionary move
ment toward driving the President from
Office by outright violence
Does not every body know that the lead
erS OF the so-called Democrats in this State
openly clamored for a recognition of the
Southern Confederacy. That their candi-
cate for Congress declared himself for it
sooner than have war, in a speech at pub
lie meeting at Dover, which sentiment was
endorsed by nearly, perhaps we may say all,
the members of the Kent co. ticket Does
not every man familiar with the ticket know
that the men on it have said they sympa-
thized with the South more than the Ad-
ministration, and that it was wicked abo-
lltion war on Southern rights, and that it
ought to be stopped and the Southern States
let go, as was their sovereign right and it
has not been until the past few weeks that
they would say they were for the Union
and the suppression of the rebellion. If
they are honest now, what meant the ex-
preston of the most prominent man on the
Kent county ticket, in pointing to flag that
had been raised on Bakers hotel. in Dover
that he "could not support that flag while
1t Is the symbol of oppression as it now is :"
that made the re,y Democratic remark that
the "normal condition of every poor man
white or black, was that of slavery :" that
will not attend church because the minister
prayes for the Government; or another rp,7,
familiar name on the ticket who thinks the
South is fighting for her rights, and ought
to have them, who, if Maryland seeded,
and Delaware didn't, would leave Delaware
and go over there to i've, who says we have
no Government, compares our soldiers to
murderers, gives to rebel prisoners and will
not to our own, and finds fault continually
with the Administration but does not with
the South; or with another on the ticket
who would like Stonewall Jackson to CAN
ture Mcclellan and take him prisoner
These are the kind of men our opponents
ask the people to elect, under the plea that
they are better Union men than the MEM
bers of the Union Party. 1t is only when
they see the masses are for the Union that
they claim to be Sc to; such uniOnism is as
rotten as punk, and these men should be
spurned as dangerous to our State, and ene-
mics of the Government.