Smyrna times., 1862-10-23
The Peace.Pharisees.

Stealing the livery of Heaven to serve the devil
III Is considered about mean a thingas any man
can be guilty Of In the present race of secession
sympathztrs the phrase has a most accurate ;lIvs-
tratlon. The followers of Hughes and Biddle in
Pennsylvania, of the Woods and IIoratio Sevmou,.
in New York, of Vallandigham in Ohio. and Petit
ana Brlght In Indiana, are about complete set
OF traitors and hypocrites one can read of in his
tory They are, would think, lineal descendants
of the Scriptura character who took his conrad.
aside and while atfgctionatey inquiring about his
health, smotc him secretly under the finh rib .o
that he died 1t would be interesting 10 run hack
their genealogy and whether they have not soma
afhliacn with him who has left his mark in historv
IN connection with certain thirty pieces of silver -
or whether the false Monteith and the revontionarv
traitors Arnold and Conway were not among th.iy
ancestry. Laying aside all our horror that such
men have deliberately placed themselves outside of
the glorious traditions Of their country have renounc.
ed their claim TO the spcndors Of its storied flag.
and now have country that they call their own, or
whose protection they rghtfully claim, we still
feel their unutterable Hypocrisy in whining about
peace. They deliberately pursue course calcu-
lated to make the war drag along fo' years, and
then talk Of peace" When blow is struck at
the very fortress of the rebellion slavery they are
filled with despair sAd groan dOlorousy the Just set
ributiOa fsTTsLson. They do NOT want Iarrs psbsd
army kept sloss at home 10 watch slaves whs ara m
the ssri fer their liberty they prefer thai eur hrsh
reH. who are hghting FOR the flag, shOsld have in
ll"s against them every sonscript whom Jeff Davis
can drive 10 The front. They would bring about
peace" by strengthning the actual fighting force of
the rebels, though they not brave enough to add
their personal efforts in the armies of treason
Another way in which they show their "fraterna
love- for the country is by their strenuous attempts
to destroy the currency issued by the Government.
and thus bring ruin upon every houshold in the
loyal States. Every vote they have given or will
give, in Congress, elsewhere, would be in favor Of
destroying the power and credit of the Government.
and thus aiding financial misery to the political dis
| aster wrought hy their Southern allies
1t Is not alone in politics that these traitors arel
found. They are and heard in social life, and
are as full of activity in pursuance of their contemp
tlbie designs as centipedes or spiders they even
cloak their purposes under the garb of religion and
mourn like family of Joseph Surfaces if they ara
dsbarred the privilege Of preaching and prsyinp
co~ardice and treason before the faces Of loyal and
courageous men. Fortunately these skulkng cleri.
cal abetors of crime becoming fewer throughout
the loyal States and it will be joyful hour when it
can be said thst the last of shem have gone to their
own place beyond the Federal lines.
1t is such people these whom we have to rehuke.
They need wholesome, thorough moral demolition,
So that they CO ncvr show their butternut" forms
agAi" IN loyal ~ycicty. Their insolence, cowardics
and Hypocrisy need most absolute and total ex-
Po.nre. and hope too see their entire faction so
utterly deftated that say that the surface of
our loyal commonwealth is wiped clean, seven as a
man Wipeth dish; he wipeth it and turnsth it
upside down."