Smyrna times., 1863-04-23
Who Is Responsible {?

we arc SuTpTISeO IUaC any person, ant
particularly that paper having the oppor
tInity to obtain light and knowledge tha
the salisbury organ has, should ask thi
question at this late day-two years afte
the South threw away all the schemes of com
promis and announced that the only settle
rnent they would make should be by tho
sod. Are they trying to cover up tn,
i # secession and treason, or rather re-
liev1 the South of AL guilt by casting al
the blame upon the Gosernment 1t would
seem so.
A Uniting that bloody battles have been
TO s5ht, cities and whole districts oc country
l"d waste, mothers weeping for their child
rem ahd will not be comforted because they
or not, industry blighted, fabulous ma
>'onal debt incurred, military despotisms es-
tabliShed, and civil liberty itself endanger.
ed, We taI we'll ask, with our cotemporarv
"wilo e resposible:"
We who were opposed to national ruin
plead with our then "Southern bretlr nv 10
rtInain i'll and settle their difficulties in the
Cn.on ; that if persisting in their efforts to
tear down our noble ediice of nationality
tey woull precipitate themselves and us il.
just such cal3;nities and mseries as we ne
now cursed with, and had they not, lik,
hurley pugilists, considered themselves mas
ters of the ring" and entertained such
contempt for the cOwardly white-!iyered
Yankees" the "big job" would not have
been undertaken. Had they entertained
better opinion of the patient, Industrious,
p'lilosophic Northern muisi.ls," and not
thought five of them less than match for
one of themselves, this rebellion, with all its
horrors, would not have taken place
Wii the Salisbury organ, in its attempt
20 cast the blame upon the Administration,
say that the South had cause to resort to
the enormous crime of rebellion and theft of
property Of h. citizens and the Government
Not one case can be pounted at where one of
them Fas oppressed. One ofthe first acts of
ths Lincoln Administration was to return
their fugitive slaves ; TO plaese the South the
R'publicans ignored the principles of their
own platfcr.n (the ChicagO) by organizing
three new Territories, with not word about
srcludig The ncgOr heretiOm, which was sign
ed by President Lincoln some of the States
hid and most of them were institutinp
instituting measures for the repeal of their
"personal liberty" bills; the South had the
majority in the Senate, and could have pre-
vented the appointment Of any man obnox-
ious to them to office and the only thing
that MIR. Lincoln did before. they commen-
ced the war (for the most of them had sece-
ded under u Democratic administ,a a ion,
was the announcement that he should re-
possess the Government property they had
stolen. which he had taken an oath to pro-
tect, and the appointment of others than
Democrats to office. With such facts star
ing us in the face, what imbecility, what
dishonesty. yea, what criminality to write
up the character, action and motives of our
bloody fratricidal enemies as emminen,l,
pure, and cast all the blame upon the Ad.
Ininistration, because it is defending tho
flag our fathers gave us, and trying to pre-
serve, intact, our nationality. 50
The destiny, character and honor of our
Government seems to be entirely lost sight
OF IN their love for those who, for a relic of
Oriental barbarism, have broken our laws
ignored our Constitution, demolished our
traditional ideas of greatness, and despised
and dehed what has heretofore been at once
and the same time the element of our great.
aess and. the arbiser of our wron9s--tbs
ballot box
The grand idea that gave body and seul
to secession, and which actuates their allies
smong Us under the guise OF q Constitution
Al Democracy" is slavery--the controlling
Doctrine Of which is "might makes right ="
Ahey Look upon mankind at large as har-
vest to be gathered for tie use Of the few
who IRE eonfsaerated for that purpose, even
IS wolves hunt IN paeks Though it wa,
a ;ainst civilization and intelli gence estah
tabiishes casts and classes nabobo .na
poor white trash." makes property the
condition Of suffrage, and corrupts and dis
ORGANIZES a'' both races. it per force must be
Ea. t',s saa'.'u'a soa,l@ of egthIy esistencs.--l
Esfy'ning must give way to L. - .
Is related by a writer that in. cer,ai. i,
p'r's Of South Africa there is . rsmaarIaa,hl.
n-.ne Tsetse fly. In the ordinary CORE @
OF satisfying its hunger this insect psae,a.'s '
tue SKIN Of ? horse and the, animal dies in
consequence, A fly makes q lunch snd, a
h0r'ss, l'is pays the price of the meal, sl.-
" ;'ssks haads Of these copperhsadds and