The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-03-28
ouR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

OUR WARRINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
WAsH1SGroS, March II, 1868.
Messr,. EditorsI have often thought would
acknowledge the pleasure I receive from the
perusal of your weekly missive, and, perhaps,
add few words relating to the doings at the
Federal city, if they would prove acceptable to
your readers. The intention has been good, but
plead guilty of delaying to act
Icannot commend too highly the result OF
your enterprise in establishing good paper
in Western Kansas and in saying this mean
no hollow compliment resulting from any un-
due bias from friendly interest in your vel
fare. Those who are competent to judge tell
me that it is one of the best rural papers of the
country, taking into view the many disadvan-
tages you have to encounter. Ha who fur
nishes good reading to the community is doing
much to lay deep the foundations Of good So
ciety, and preserve the inheritance Of free
government. The abnegation Of evil from
your columns, and the inculcation Of good, are
passive elements which tend not most to COM
mend your paper. 1t takes sides for our coun-
try in this hour of our danger, and struggle
against secret enemies, and open foes. You
are making history, and it will record for you
bright paragraph, inscribe page honorable
to your heads and hearts, in this that you gave
words of cheer and firm support to the brave
men battling for our country. 1t is the pride
and glory of loyal paper to emblazon the
names Of the heroes of this war, and in this
respect you are not remiss in giving the deeds
of valor of those who have gone out from your
midst to the battlefield; and not small array
of names are they, considering the small pop
ulation of newly settled country.
This is no time for dependency that the
rebellion is not crushed out. This is but the
beginning of the war, and it is the beginning Of
the end We are measuring the causes, the deep
subtlety Of the treason the magnitude Of the crime,
and its phrenzied power. 1t is no sixty days
conquest required to cure an evil Of half GEN.
tury's growth. Though it has been latent while
controlling the councils of the Nation, it was,
nevertheless, all the time plotting and pre-
pairing for open defiance, when the sceptre
should have passed from their hands
The rebellion is rank, and animated by a
malign power. 1t exhibits to the world q
unanimity and pcrsistency of purpose which
would challenge our respect and admiration,
if devoted to q better cause. No measures of
pacifcation can cure it. The traitors will it
that we shall meet them with arms, and that
we shall fight out this contest to the bitter end ;
fho no rbo1o
strength of the Government in the free and
loyal States arises in its majesty! The Gov
ernment is putting down a a.Eebellion, but in
doing it the great Northern principles of civ
ilization, with all its blessings, supplant its
opposing system, the cause of all our present
trouble. This is the crisis unsought and un-
provoked. The wrong doer and the aggressor
have forced it to an issue, and may Heaven
favor the right! No one need feel timid be-
cause Copperheads are here and there uncoilng
and opening their deadly fangs. Their virus
is normal-they have been Copperheads all the
time, though they have but recently gained
sufficient boldness to show their real character.
They crawled into the Democratic fold, but
such men as John Van Buren,, Brady, Dix,
Wright, Andrew johnson, and hosts of other
loyal Democrats and patriots, are taking up
clubs to kill them. Already they are crawling
into their holes. The separation is fast taking
place, their malignity is too bare faced, and
they can no longer use a name to conceal their
real character.
Little Kansas, schooled in trial and hard
ship. has won its niche of glory in this struggle
for liberty. Her sons know the foe, and deal
the blow where it will most effectually cripple
him. Treason, then. hides its deformed head,
feeling its own ugliness in the light Of such
effulgence of patriotism and virtue. When the
only representative in Congress from that
infant State would ingloriously yield all to the
rebels, how sudden retributive justice is meted
out to recreant servant by your patriotic Le-
gislature. Such a rebuke is instructive. In
Senator's Kansas is blessed. Both are devoted
to the interests of the people, and true to their
Country. They have worked hard, long, faith
fully, and deserve we'll of their constituents
A Fight in Tennessee.