Smyrna times., 1863-02-12
MISCELLA.NEO
TIE Political Future -BOldsr Positions
- and Clearer Issues.

tl6 EOIlL1Cdl fuLurS-- pOioeT EOSlttenS
g. and Clearer Issues.
The Northern auxiliaries of jeff Davis
must soon give up their bush-fghting. 1t
has served them good turn. They owe
TO it all their success hitherto. But it could
not last. No sort of bushwhacking ever
does. People come TO understand it, and
when it is understood there is an end of it,
Counterfeited flags, stolen uniforms, false
Alarms, deeoys, traps, ambuscades, doublings
on the track, and all the other means of
deception, known TO the political guerrilla
quite as well as to any other, after while
especially in earnest times like these
lose their effect. There is 10 alternative,
then, but 30 take little more courage. and
change to regular warfare. This transition
ia now going on. These rebel allies are
gathering fresh boldness every dav, and arc
fast ranging themselves under their true
cclors in the open field. We NAV expect
straightforward battle from them soon. It
VII be this political battle. quite as much
as airy OTTER, that will decide the fate of the
Uaion 1A
1.-THE political controversy has at last come
TO this supreme and plan issue: Var and
Union or Pelcc and Separation All other is
sues have dwindled,' and are fast disappear
ing. People have differed about the Einan-
cipation Proclamation, about arbitrary ar
rests, about the financial policy Of the Ad-
mtnl'tration, about the comparative merits
Of iii ferent Generals, and about MANY other
mattsrssr and the rebel sympathizers Of the
North have done their best to magnify these
differences and turn them against the Gov
ernment. 1t was the conaummate art with
which this variance was stimulated, under
false professions of devotion to the war aud
the Union, that was the chief agenov in Civ
ing the Fall elections their strange results
but their management no longer answers
It's purpose. Its impelling motive is at last
understood and 80, too. IS its fatal tcnden-
cy.t All true National men are agreeing to
bury these differences, and bend tie cner-
Egles TO the one great erd of crushing the
rebellion All others are going over out
right to an Anti-War position, and aclnow-
lodging the leadership of Nallandgham,
Cox, and their compeers, who have opposed
the war from the outset-who opposed
while Mcclellan was still Commanding-
General, while the Administration was doing
its utmost to prevent interference with the
slaves, and long before such thing as ar
bltrary arrest, in loyal State was heard of
or thought Of Thus the parties are consol-
ldatlng. Every man will speedily have to
ind his place ON the one side or the other.
The day OF the supreme test of devotion
70 the country has come. An absolute sac
rihce Of every extraneous consideration IS
required. The time has passed for c0odi
to4aI loyalty The man who subordinates
his present patriotic duty to this or that
fayorite object or favorite policy of his own.
thereby proves himself false man. and. al
heart, no better than a traitor. The Gov
eminent, after long deliberation. has fixed
Its war policy IN reference to slavery. While
-thst policy was under Consideration Z was :
falr subject for public discussion. 1t ra
discussed everywhere and thoroughly. II
che hight OF that discussion, as well AZ Of thu
new developments Of the war, the Govern
srnent settled upon its action There is no
the slightest ground for believing that thi
seton will be reversed, or materially modi
ned. 1t Is no longer an open question. tn,
policy, wise or unwise, is henceforth an in
separsble part of the war itself If tber,
be those who don't like it, il is their dutv n
.;aoqpiescs IN 1t. To stand out AGAINST II {,
" viz lS DTdctICtkliy EQUIV
aent TO opposing the wax itself This. il
effect, Is nothing more or less than maxim,
she preservation Of the nation subordinate +
the preservation Of slavery for it is certai
shat without further war the rebellion rnu,
prevail, and the nation go down.
Of course, acquiescence in the gcner,
wT POLICY of the Administrator need nc
inpose silence as 70 the practical conduct q
tne war. Whatever use the Goyernmer
mayehoose 70 make fits war power in r.
latlon to slavefy,itis bound. none the les,
10 take care that the war itself IS nrosecnte .
with all possible skin and yipor If;tE,;I
N this, its best friends may, ,consistentIy -
buke il /; nay, their duty is so todo TIL
more devoted one is TO the war. the NOR
faithful ought he to be in protesting aea;ns
II. delays and lits, ,bIunders There Is All n
difference IN the world between such anv;f :,
tytoi have the war prosper and a tl,a daas aaA;.
that il should be abandoned thonab @ Gs,, s;s.,
@iss criticisms may often be ,,,o,s,toa a s,'l =
both feelings The rebel sympatb;Ier s ~ .
al that ne can to render the war unnon,Ia, rIs
and this makes il taal the. more the Al peaa,
ssyHy loyal man to do all that he can ~ y,
s~hJ word and ac<, to render n -, W ~