Smyrna times., 1863-03-05
Delware Advises Missouri.


ton of the Missouri Governor and Legls- |
lature in reference to the Joint Resolu- |
tions on our Federal Relations" adopted
by our Legislature and transmitted to the
different loyal States. They were unmer-
cifully handled by the Missouri Legislature
and denounced as false in history, seditio~s IN
spirit, and reasonable in language. The New
York Times i'll commenting on this action Of
the Missouri Legislature in an article which |
we reproduce to show what is thought of
the matter out of our State, says:
Delaware is a small State, has little inter |
est in slave property, the true cause of the
war, and has felt next to none of wars raw
ages. Missouri is great State, had at the
beginning of the war at least Forty Millions
of dollars worth of slave property, as the
price of such property went, and has ex-
perienced more of the horrors and desola-
tions of the war than any State in the Union,
not even excepting Virginia. 1t would oc
our to any one that if either Missouri or
Delaware understood the character of the
conflict and had a profound interest in its
early conclusion, and knew how best it
could be concluded, that State would be
Missouri.
Not so do the authorities of Delaware re-
gard the matter. 1t appears that the Leg
islature of the little State have adopted res
olutions, and sent them to the Governor Of
Missouri, asking that Missouri shall send
delegates to National Convention for the
purpose of " affecting an armistice," &c.
The Governor communicated the resolutions
to the Legislature of Missouri, then in ses-
sion, with hearty denunciation oftheir
spirit and purpose and the representatives
of the people of Missouri exceeded the Gov
ernor in the fullness and severity of their
rebuke to the craven and reasonable prop
osition from the Legislature of Delaware.
What has Delaware at stake compared
with Missouri, that the former should un-
dertake to end this war by compounding
with traitors! Missouri has lost more pop
ulation, if not more wealth, by the war than
to-day exists within the limits of the State
of Delaware. The gigantic wrongs Mis-
souri, has suffered have no atonement as yet,
and can have none, until slavery is swept
from the banks of the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, Rivers-and the great State that holds
the heap of the deep water navigation of
both, extends the sceptre of Free Labor to
the Gulf Missouri has stake in the fu-
ture of this country, if Delaware has not.
Missouri has room and wealth for millions
of inhabitants within her borders. Missouri
has great commerce, for two years ami
hilated by the rebel embargo of her natural
highway to the ocean. Every interest in
the State, material, moral and intellectual,
has been sapped and almost overthrown by
the rebellion. The wicked purpose to rule
or ruin the nation has lost none of its inso-
lent and inAexible tone, and yet with its pas
and present so butchered by traitors in arms
and its great future so threatened by vas
salage and inferiority, Missouri is asked tc
forego her opposition to the rebellion, ant
prepare for an armistice and peace! Della
ware may have nothing to lose by SO igno
BILE a surrender of the Union and the ma
tional rights secured to all the States under
it. Not so Missouri. And not so Illinois
IHdiana, Ohio, Kentucky, or any grea
f State of the West. And whenever th,
{ proposition shall come, from what quartz
? it may, to any of those States to groun,
: arms on any other terms than the tota
n abandonment by the rebels of their desir
g to sever the empire of the Union in tn
n West, the reply will be only the humiliatin
: one that Delaware has received from Mis-
= souri,.