The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1864-11-19
VALEDICrORY!

With this number, our connection with TIE
SNoKY HILL AND REPUBLICAN UNION ceases. The
business Of publishing newspaper-of being
the spokesman of portion of great Party, and
the champion of all local material interests
forms associations and creates feelings which the
simple act of withdrawal can never undo. It is
therefore with feelings of regret and pain we
sever our connection from that which has been
to us q source Of qualification and an object of
watehfulness for three years past-and take
leave of the many with whom we have held
weekly converse during that time.
Our discomfort at yielding to another the
editorial chair is somewhat allayed by the
reflection that in the Nation. the State, the
County. and the Town, those great Principles
for which we have labored are triumphant
The skies are bright-the morn has dawned
upon Freedom and Union. The last blow-the
almost unanimous voice of o determined people
.-has been struck, and consequent thereto the
glories of new and better Peace will speedily
cover the land.
We need not cay that the record which We
have made is full of satisfaction to us. Guided
by On unbounded faith in the ultimate triumph
of those great Principles which characterize the
conflic. in which our Government has been
engaged. the UNION has never faltered in its
advocacy Of the most extreme measures calculated
to advance the suppression of the Shareholders
Rebellion. We haYe been prompted by love
Of the one, and hatred of the other; and no
species Of argument could be adduced whereby
We might be made to believe that the ruling
motives Of our actions might be extended to each
equally. In other words, one was right, and
the other wrong and our files will bear out the
assertion that have treated the subject of this
war with that consistency and ultraism which
should characterize conflict between such
extreme orposites as Right and Wrong. The
direst reverses to the National arms have always
been received by the USIoS steps forward in
the consummation Of the object at stake Nor
did re2ulses slacken our advocacy of those
radical measures now almost entirely the ruling
policy of the Nation. Black Soldiers, War on
Slavery. Suspension of the writ of habeas corpus
and the confinement and hanging Of Northern
traitors, are some Of the ideas which We have
labored for.
Morality. Temperance, Religion and Educa- |
ton. We have always urged ae the only basis of
good and enduring society. That upon the |
moral and religious tone Of people depended |
their material adyancement-that no business |
prosperity not based upon these virtues. and |
inseparably connected with them in all the
transaetions Of life. was unsafe and short lived.
Particularly did We deem it our duty to wage
war upon the abominable. man-destroying, God
defying rum holes which have been like vipers
70 the moral and material prosperity Of our town
the cause Of the Church and the
School, creating misery in the street and in the
family circle. and blighting with crime the name
Df our young burg. Their increase Of the bur
thens Of taxation. aud every other conceivable
possible injury to people and their prosperity.