The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-06-12

understand that they had too much spiri,
and patriotism to claim any afiliation with
the secession Democracy of Davis county.
The sum and substance of Mr.. Dummer's
letter is an attempt to prove that the Kan
sas Second Regiment, of which he is now
member, is composed mainly of Demo
Gratis, and of that stripe, too, commonly
called Vallandigham Democracy. This
assertion is so unfounded, the very opposite
being the fact, that we are led to notice this
fellow, however much be should have been
buried in oblivion months ago.
Mr.. Dummer takes special pains to in.
form the public of his noble magnanimity
in thus "joining the rank and file of the
army" and offering to "sacrifce his life to
defend his prosecutors" What noble and
self sacrificing spirit! 1t should surely
claim our admiration. Ambitious hopes
and firm resolves all thrown aside with a
martyr-ike spirit, that he may defend his
prosecutors "' The martyrs of the Refor-
nation are cast in the shade. We presume
be has thought better of his firm resolution
not to enter the army uEless he was given
position. Necessity, thy commands are
stern, and must be obeyed. Under thy
decree, Dummer's bright visions of nodding
plume and glittering shoulder strap have
faded into air, and he forms one in the
rank and fie." Nobler than thou, Dunn
mer, stand in that Crank and file and
feel no humiliation, and speak not as if it
was beneath them. And they did not
enter it when the prospect was good for a
pleasant summers jaunt across the plains,
with rations in abundance and not the least
sign for encountering any of the stern
realities of war. Their debut into the army
was when treason stalked defantly through
the land, encouraged by Vallan digham
Democrats and stimulated by foreign jeal-
ousies and their purpose was, and still is,
to crush out this rebellion, and if slavery
stands in the way to sweep it from exist
ence, Dummer's opinion to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
We have known this regiment of whose
principles Dummer claims to be exponent,
when it was in active service, when they
would be carrying out their ideas as to the
best method Of crushing the rebellion, if
ever, and then the property of secessionists
was not inyiolate, but was con6scated
wherever known. Neither was "Abolition-
list as much term of derision and con.
tempt as scccssionist." On the contrary
they believed that the treason of the
master gave freedom to the slave, and car
ried that idea into practice by wrestling
slaves from rebel masters whenever an
opportunity offered. General Mitchell,
their former noble leader, we would judge
to be better exponent of their principles
than even "Dombey" Dummcr, and We
know that he did not deem 1t sacrelgious
to interfere with slavery where slavery was
an advantage to traitors. We have heard
him tell negroes, slaves, waiting BY the
roadside to join what they had been told by
their masters was the army of freedom,
that if their masters were secessionists they
should not 60 back to servitude. And it
is such men (Abolitionists traitors call
them) that Dcmbey" Dummer would
have the world believe are stencil in the
nostrils of the Kansas Second.
When this correspondent seeks to class
the gallant Second among the followers of
the Vallandigham Democracy, we deem it
no more than just that his fellow soldiers
should understand it, that they may be
prepared to administer to him a fitting
rebuke for so unwarlanted an assumption.
We are of the opinion that Dummer will
see things in an entirely different light
before his return from the Cherokee
country.
E As the clouds scatter in the South.
eru horizon, it darkens in the West. The
latest news from Utah is to the effect that
the saints are getting unruly, aad threaten
some trouble. A State Government has