Smyrna times., 1863-04-02

it's poisonous embrace these State would
have been free and clear fthe unnatural
Union twenty years ago. 1t Is not the
Stewards and Summers, the Black Republi-
cans and Abolitionists, who have hurt us.
They were right all along there taS an
irrepressible conflict between two different
civilizations, two opposite social organiza-
tlonS; they were no more able to live
peaceably together in one Government than
two hands can wear one glove. If we did
not discover as soon as the AboltioniSts,
this great truth, it was because the Demo
cratic party, neutral as it was in principle,
false to both sides, and wholly Indifferent
to the morale of either of the opposing com
munities, placed itself between, raised the
banner of the "spols," and-we all know
the rest. The idea Of that OClious party coming
to life again, and holding om its arms to us,
n.dk,s ~ Ji,rcr. Its foul breath is malaria its
t0uch is death.
Give us the open foemani let him be as
feroclous and greedy as you will Let our
enemy appear as an exterminating Yankee
host, we pray, and not as a Democratic Con-
vention. Let him take any shape but that
Already we have visions Of the men of fee
BILE knees, tender feet and undulating Spines,
losing their senses and manhood by the con-
tact, rs they did, alas so often before.
We scent from afar off the old dead c0mpro-
n,ises-aJat Oman! and seem to feel upon our
throats the strangulation of unclean fingers
But it is a dream nobody liyes i'll thi,
Confederacy who will dare to propose, or tC
hint even at a distance, that we should sac
rfce at that abominable shrine all the gal
liant blood freely poured out to sanctify on
nationhoOd. For it comes to this we Cal
have no peace no,r, save by submission; III
peace now save by making once more al
affiiiation with a Northern party; and max
! ing the Democracy present of all that ines
| tirnable treasure of the dearest blood tina
, flowed in Southern veins.
Peace! Does the monstrous host befor
S Vicksbnrg bring us peace? Is it peace tina
e Rosecrans is making in Tennessee? Doe
. the military dispersion of public meetings i
5 Kentucky bode peace? The new Northcr
e conscripton, enrolling three millions, an
e making provision for instantly commandin
IS their service, or exacting a heavy exemI
l. ton tax-does this look like peace! TT
: deliberate vesting in Abraham Lincoln
n all the military power ofa dictator, with tt
). treasure of the whole nation opened TO hi
st without stint-is it to enable him to NAL
t, peace, or war-which
n Where, then, are those indications
is peace, which we are said to be reckless
resisting and dis laining! Oh! the gre
,e speech of Vallandigham the touching
lr vtation of tuneful Cox! We greatly fe
,e that those two wooers of the South 50 fol
at and fain, will very soon be found, like Jof
ne Van Buren, shrieking out for war to t
ce knife and if they delay or decline to
Of cant their great and noble peace speecht
be why they will see the inside of Lincoll
as iails We wish from our hearts that tn
rv were both already safely chained up at t
to present writing they done us more har
,ld they and their like, than ten thousand Sc
res ards and Summers. We tremble to
by unwholsome advances still more to see
sort of morbid craving here to respond
.xs them, under the delusive idea of promoti
intestine division at the North.
Oh! Dictator Lincoln lock We up tho
two peace Democrats-together with Ri
ardson-in some of your military priso