Smyrna times., 1862-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Bold and Manly Demonstration.


Wilkes Spirit Of the Times, whose editor
is staunch and well-known Democrat,
publishes in this weeks number the follow
ing singing editorial remarks:
g The sickening disasters of the change
of base and the dying wall of the thousands |
of our youth, abandoned by Cesar in the |
swamps, which found a mournful echo in
almost every family, sent these Pharisees
confounded and covering in their dens--
But they reappeared again, and, at every
step of the Federal progress, haze been
ready to perplex the settlement. Even the
last week beheld the disgraceful spectacle,
In Philadelphia, of public meeting, called
to depreciate the subjugation of set of
wretches who are hanging loyal citizens for
an expression of opinion, and projecting
wholesale murders on the hollow pretence
of retaliation
They who get up these meetings are
true allies of the insurgents. They have no
words but those of tenderness for treason,
and while they lavish slur and condemna-
ton on the Government, they sugar-coat
their poison by spacious devotion to the
Constitution. These creatures; however,
are not the true leaders of the Democratic
party, and we Indignantly deny that they
represent any wholesome part of it. Most
OF them are the third and fourth rate ours
OF Office, fellows who never inhaled an hon
est unsordid breath, but who, with a mock
Pretence OF principle, aud sad shaking of
the head, assume to be jealous of every in
vaslon OF the laws. They are shocked, for
sooth, at the suspension of the writ of ha-
ods corpus; they rave at the idea of the
oraft they denOunce every new measure OF
the Government as dangerous precedent
but they are never struck by the idea thai
me 'clr Of the rebels IS a dangerous precedent
or seem to comprehend that man, surpris
ed by an assassin, had better thrust a knit;
10 the vltals the miscreant, than to desir,
biin to loose his hold and go quietly I,
court
These sensitive patriots are very fonC
ol directing attention to the abolitionists
lhey would have US believe, perhaps, tina
" was the abolitionists who passed the lie
compton constitution who basely betraye
fhe Democratic party by nominating Breck
tnridge who made the South secede whe
II had practical possession Of the Cover
msnt; who seized the arsenals in a time I
ft"~es S1oiO VIC puOic NcaSufc, nred upO
Sumter, and sent forth red+handed pirat,
70 sink peaceful merchantmen beneath IL
the waves! These lurid images might we
infame an honest patriotism /; but what shs
we say when we learn that such shudde
ing crimes are the guilt of the friends the
patronize, instead Of being the acts of tho
they would condemnl How shall we E
sent the base attempt to fix the bowl
party upon set of weak and uninfuenti
zealots, for the purpose of giving shelter al
license to theunspeakably damned Villas
Who have dragged their country from Il
Poise of peace and stabbed it 10 the hear
at is against the wicked and mischie
Gus arts of such insidious kpayes as the
that we, asa Democrat, would warn Il
loyal honest masses of our common part
Il from their smirking masks we won
4 direct the public attention of our .fello
l1enporats, to the noble aspects of su,
leaders of the Democratic mind as Andre
Jackson, Thomas Il Reptop, Stephen
Douglas, David 9, Brp4eriok, Daniel,
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