The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

General Lytle on Terms of Peace.

A correspondent of the fkfacon (George) Te/egraph
writes from Northern Alabama. an account of several inter-
views
which he had with Gen.. Lytle previous to the battle
of Chicamauga, in which he fell. He says "As Gen.
Lytle was a quasi acquaintance., and a most accomplish, d
gentleman and soldier, and, withal, having his headquar-
ters on my farm, I availed myse,Tf of his invitation to via it
him daily, and had much free and unembarassed conver-
sation with him touching the war and its prospects. He,
in common with the whole army, seemed to entertain a
strange unwavering faith, amounting to fanaticism, thlit
they would march unobstructed to the centre ,of
Georgia, and crush the rebellion before winter, surd
thus all their anxiety was about the escape of Bragg, with-
out relieving the tedium of the wearisome march by the
excitement of battle. Disgusted with this constant explosion
of bombast, I said—' Gentlemen, restrain your boasting till
you get beyond the stiadow of yonder mountain, and I pro-
mise you some of the hardest fighting of this war, or airily
war upon this continent.' Lytle asked why I said so
' You declare, making no secret, that you go to subjugate
and rob of all their property, and subject to the Africans, a
race of proud white men, noted for their pride of character.'
I replied ; and can you expect they will not fight you,
men, women, and children ? Make the case your own, and
would you not say, if we skulk or fly, if these hold their
peace, the very stones will cry out, and call from their
sepulchres the old fathers in their grave-clothes to drive
back the invader? Hereafter you have fought on the iron-
tiers under the guns of your forts and gunboats, where
half the population were your friends—now you invade a
united people, burning with intense hatred towards you,
made so by the savage brutality of this war. I can have
no hand in it, but depend upon it fight awaits you, and
final defeat.' Lytle replied, ' All this can and will be
overcome by numbers. We shall be backed by 15,000
men yet, beyond the Ohio, and we can and will put down
this rebellion, no matter what it costs. We have been
fighting too long, as you say, on the frontier ; we shall
hereafter strike at the centre, the heart of the rebellion,
and that is Georgia. We will make Chattanooga our
base to operate upon the cotton States, and so make short
work of it." Well, grant for the sake of argument, you
subjugate the South and free the negroes, and restore the
Union—what sort of a Union will you have ?' said I. 'Did
you ever know a grown-up white man whipped into a union
and love with his enemy ? Would not such a union only
breed rebellion ?' Colonel Harrison, of Ohio, promptly
said, If they are still rebellious we will kill them,' And
may you not expect that their sons will avenge their
death P' I asked. 'We will kill them too, a
ark, replace
them with loyal Africans,' was the reply. General
Lytle,' said I, 'this abolition war cannot be congenial
to your nature; you are descended from an ancient Caro-
lina family. You cannot wish to see the Southern people
exterminated." Nor do I, he replied, if they will
cease to trample on the flag and return to the
Union." Both sides have vindicated their honour and
Courage,' I added; you are the strongest, therefore propo-
sitions of settlement should come from your side. Let your
Congress annul Lincoln's Abolition Proclamation, and
guarantee to the South security of person and property, and
propose to them to return under the compromise proposed
by the Southern Commissioners at Washington in 1860,
and rejected by the Northern Congress, and stop this sui-
cidal war." Your leaders repudiated that compromise
then, and would not receive it now; they are for total and
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follower of that miserable demagogue,
Vallandigham. We are not Abolitionists.. 'We hate
those traitors as bad as you can. We believe the
negro was created for slavery, and for nothing else, and the
man of intelligence who doubts this after 5,000 years'' trial,
seems to me a fanatic or fool. Old Abe is a fool
about many things—negro equality among them--and yet
I hold as a war measure, his proclamation was right. Your
slaves feed the rebel armies, while their masters fight us.
any means to prevent this is legitimate. This foolish, and
wicked, and unjustifiable rebellion must and shall be put
down at whatever cost; and then, when our army has
reached the heart of the rebellion, and dispersed the rebel
army, I am for the Union as it was, and I shall insist that
the South be invited back on the terms you propose; but
there is to be no peace nor parleying with armed rebels."

[RES FOB, 1864.
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