Smyrna times., 1862-10-09

the Democratic National Convention. br
OF minority OF the people, they threatene
and cowed the Administration of Mr.. Bu
chanan, drove eleven States into secession
and maintained, North and South. an att
tude OF defiance to the popular will, as pro
; nounced IN the ballot-box in November O
1860, which was only Quietcd, so far as tn
1ree States were concerned, by the popula
uprising that followed the fall of Fort Sum
ter. Down to that hour their hearts nm,
hands were against their country, and from
that time to the present their LOYALTY ha
Deen Il mere prctenCe-the polished veneer
that hides their own internal and unouench
able corruption and treason. 1t is 2 histor
zeal fact that if the administration of tn,
Government has been weakened in thi,
struggle for the preservation of the Repub
llc, those who have done the most, if moi
everything to weaken it, are the very pOli-
tlclans who now clamOr against its altered
lhcapaclty and dincOmpctency-the very lead
ers who ensist that they, and they alone
can conduct the war. How they propose
TO conduct it we may anticipate by weigh
ing the present professions and practices.
Chdoubtedly their policy would be the re-
verse of that of President Lincoln Wholly
ldcntitied with the Southern traitors now
striking at the flag, and almost without cy-
ceptlon committed by former associations
anu 10y recent secret correspondence to these
traitors, they would, of course. so conduct
the war as to satisfy the SccpSsoniStS. II
there was any ''vigOr" it would be exhi-
Dited Ill favor Of the rebellion if there was
any craftsmanship it would be to provide
for speedy and shameless peace.
Jefferson Davis is not more rosoIuto in
MS opposition to the American Union than
he is sincere i'll wishing success to the Brick.
inrldge organization in the coming elections
III the free States. Should he be able to
point his followers to Breckenridge major
ity III PENNSYLVANIA, Delaware. New Jersey
and New York i'll October and Novambor
ne can proudly say that the people Of these
three commonwealths have decided ao,inst
DIR Llncolns Administration. and. by CON
sequence, III favor Of the Southern olipar-
chy. Is not this inference fair? LET thoso
VINO doubt read the Southern newsnancrs
inc Richmond Enqnjr', the Granada i,g,cH
"nn the Montgomery 1drerti<or, the organs
respectively Of Davis, breckenridge and
1ancey, and they will find that nearly the
same bitterness is indulged against Mr..
Llncolns Administration that fills the anti
war newspapers of the North and West
Mr.: NaIlandigham is canOnized as a saint.
and his speeches are published in ertf,so'
The Hon. Ben. Wood is called n natriot
ana hero, and your William B. Reeds
James a. Bayards and Willard Saulsburvs
are commended for the firmness with which
they stand by the doctrines they advocated
IN 1860, and for the courage with which
resist thes resist the energetic efforts Inv
PRESIDENT Lincoln to exterminate the enc
mes OF the country. Let the management
OF the war be confided to the Breckinrido.
leaders OF the free States-let them first can
ture the United States House of Represcn-
tatlVes so as to embarrass the Federal an
thorltleS, and the next step will be over
lures from the Southern Confcderocv for
the recognition Of their usurpation. and far
an adjustment, which will leave the FREQ
states not alone degraded in the ewes of the
world, but the prey to discontents that must
ehh Ill separating them into insignificant
provinces. Shall these efforts Of tho svm-
pathlzers with treason, the Breckinridoo
9' ~ NlO"hcu WIFI success This is !
the question that comes home to every pa
trIotlc heart. If we listen to their cries
against the draft, to their falseho0ds in ro-
gard TO the national debt and to taxation
to their outrageous fabrications in reference
to the objects of the Administration in the
present war-lf we are misled by their ex-
a9gerated idea that this is a contest for mo- |
gro equality, that negro labor is to be
Drought IN to compete with the free white
labor OF the North and West-then nm
doubtedly their efforts will triumph and
the cause OF our country be committed TO
their hands. The issue is thus plainly stat,
cd, so that when the day of election shall
arrive no citizen may say that he has not been
topportunely admonished If the ballot-box
III the loyal States can be perverted to y
decree against the Administration in the
management of the war, no doubtful con-
structlon will be put upon that verdict ci-
ther by the traitors in the South. or onr
enemies In the Old World 1t will bo ro
garded by both as a declaration aga;nst H.
war, and in favor of an immediate and Il" M
honorable peace, and must end in the ovon
throw OF this, the only free government in
the world III