Smyrna times., 1863-02-12
Mo Peace with Disunion.

We would call the attention of our Dem
ocratic members of the Legislature, who car
find it in their hearts to SO readily pass
i" Joint Resolution to embarrass their Gov
ernm.nt and favOring an armistice for the
purpose of reconciling the rebels to the
Union as it was" to the following. from
the Richmond Ecaauil7, of Feb. 3D. While
our secession Democrats are maintaining
that cessation of hostilities would cause
the South to reflect and come back, their
chief psper, the organ of the Confederacy.
asserts that there can be no settled peace
between the two sections without separa-
ton, and even then it would be a long
time before the matter could be definitely
settled:
There can be no settled, agreed peace be-
tween the two belligerents in this fearful
war without an amicable division of the
magnificent domain which has heretofore
been held AS the common property Of the
Union. Is Maryland to 90 altogether TO
the North, or to be divided according to the
preponderance of popular sentiment in each
OF ITS divisions! The integrity of Virginia
eau never be yielded either by the common
wealth herself, or by the confederacy which
has guaranteed it. VIII the North insist
upon having the new State of kanawha a.
sns qad of peace! Are time-scryinp
Kentucky and heroic Missouri to be Uiven
up by the Confederacy, as they are implied
ly given up by President Davis in his mes
sagef Or will the South insist that the
territorial position Of one and the popular
Will OF the other render their possession by
herself ane qHa non of peace The two
great questions, whether States are to he
divided at all, and whether thev are TO b.,
transferred entire or in parts to the one or
the ether party, with or without reference
= 70 Their own election, will not be more diff
ncuit OF settlement than the important uues-
ton how shall the vast domain living west
OF the Mississippi be disposed of!
The difficulty of adjusting the terms of a
peace mutually satisfactory in such case
ana under such circumstances of onus are
very great, and years may elapse after the
cessation OF active hOstiities before they
can be definitely determined.
80 And even this statement. unusually. clear
="
and candid as it is, to come from rebel
sources, only imperfectly defines the obsta-
.eles existing to any possible arrangement
with tic leaders of the rebellion. At the
instant they are recognized so much as to
name the subject of treating with them. all
tiese i1superable difficulties rise to the pro-
PORTIONS of the territory ofthe two parties.
The rebel States would claim under separa-
tion all that they ever claimed in the Union.
They fought then for half the new terrific
rier, with perfect desperation, and they will
maintain their claim as long as they can
fight at all
r. The only end to the war, says the North
AmeTIera, is the Union of interests and Of
institutions, which is now making progress
the end of slavery. When that perishes
the pretext for further division ceases. And
1t ceases snly with the wreck of slavery.
To have divided house longer within the
Union will only be to bring on a second
catastrophe, and to live with a divided
country out of the Union is impossible.