The Shasta courier., 1861-11-23
Peace Men.

The music of the 'peace" party IN Caliior'
MIA is set to too low key. The demand for
peace, which they so belligerently obtrude,
on all occasions, is not based upon the same
broad and comprehensive grounds as in the
reyolted States, and as unity Of sentiment is
of the first necessity and importance between
all in the rebel interest, it is to be hoped that
the party in California having charge of the
quiet of the Union will adapt its "princi-
ples'' to the sentiments of the practical fol-
lowers of the c. S. A. There is such disso
nance at present between the peace man in
California and his counterpart in the South
ern States, that some plan should at once be
devised by which the mutually intelligent, ;.
and rcciprocally conservative wings of that
charming organization may be enabled to
"keep dress" Here, for instance, the war
is denounced, because it is wicked and un-
christian like for ''brothers" to fight, holding
very strenuously to the sentiment that our
" our little hands were never made to tear
each others eyes" In rebeldom, however,
they urge that the American citizens are not
brothers, that they are born enemies, and
fight naturally and instinctively, just, for
instance. like mule kicks. In this portion
fthe country the secessionists hold it to be
marvelously improper thing to "coerce"
or "subjugater any State that sees proper
to violate every law ever enacted in the Uni
ted States, and at the same time appropriate
all the property in reach, belonging to some
body else. In the realms of JEFF. these
things are regarded very differently. That
potentate is even now attempting to coerce
and subjugate two refractory States, that
have said by a vote of five to one that they
wanted nothing to do with him, or his exper-
iment of a government. Here they talk a
great deal about cruelty in warfare, and
cheap poets in that interest, under the influ-
ence of the most benevolent sentiments,
write miles Of diluted rhyme, showing what
awretched thing it is for human beings to
fight about such trifes as home and reputa-
tion. Over there, however, they burn rail-
road bridges and enlist Choctaw Indians to
carry ontbe unnatural and inhuman war; -
We repeat that there is an irrepressible con-
fict between the Atlantic and Pacific wings
of the "peace" party, which, unless soon
settled, will bring discord into that family of
saints. 1t is certainly pleasant thing for
brethren to dwelftogether in unity. So great
is the discord now between them, that if one
ofthese peace shriekers from California was
to go to Davisdom and give the California
view of the issues of the day, he would be
throttled at once.
Now the question comes up, the necessity
for a common platform being obvioas, of how
on which, Davis & Co. sustain this war, is alb
horrent to the spirit of the age, and repug-
nant to the honor of tho mail flrhsrs, now
engaged in abolitionizing, as far as they can,
all the civilized world.
Ier coatre, there are reasons why the Sc
cessionists of this State cannot advance, so
as to get up to the Davis platform. AS a
part of this subject, and not devoid of valu-
able suggestion, we will give the ideas of our
Southern brethren on this matter, which we
find very felicitously expressed in one of the
New Orleans papers:
'The North must be made to sue for
peace, and be compelled to accept the terms
which we will propose. This is the only way
this war ought to be ended, and it is the only
way it will be ended, unless the enemy in
the meantime, as is highly probable, breaks
down for the want of means wherewith to
carry on the contest"
1.-The Speace parity in the North is not
however, exactly that sort of peace party
which the South would like to see there
They are for peace merely because the war
has prostrated business, and threatens to. in
volve them in fearful national debt They
are not for peace because they believe. the
South to be right. What we wars Is for
them to declare for peace on the broad ground
that the South is right on principle. When
they take the position that the provocation of
the South was more than sufficient; that the
right of secession, under our form of govern
ment, is undeabted that it is a correct the
ory that all governments ought to derive
their existence from the consent of the gov
erned in short that the South not only had
the right to resist, but was fully and amply
justified in so doing-then, and only then,
will there be a. peace party at the North
worth talking about"
There is the mark. Can the followers OF
the veracious Gwin and the gifted Bolts, ''toe
it?'' These gentlemen are sup to the
grade" but the fuglemen, how about them?