The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-06-26

Greeley.
In the Tribune of the 18th, is an articl,
entitled "True and False Peace" in which
the Editor-in- Chief advocates Peace. W,
select two or three extracts:
"For this journal. almost alone in the frc.
States, dared avow and defend its preference
even Of disunion to bloody and desolatine
civil war. Had the southern conspirator,
really had the slave States Mt their back
and been willing to divide the Union peace
ably and go their own way, we stood ready
to advocate acquicsccnce in their quiet de.
parturc, rather than see the land deluged in
blood"
Nowhere on earth would a speedy and
| honorable peace-a real peace be hailed
with more heartfelt gladncss than by us. 7,
the traitors prove too strong to be subju.
| gated, we are for peace on their terms,
rather than useless continuance of the
war. But, peace which solves none of the
problems raised by the war-a peace which
should leave the authors of this war at
liberty to foment another at pleasure, with
| substantial encouragement to do so-such
mockery and mirage of peace we cannot
but regard as the greatest calamity that
could possibly befall the country. For il
the traitors defeat the patriot armies in fair
fight, and we thcreupon acknowledge their
independence and make peace with them,
we do not at all conccde the justice of their
pretcnsions, the soundncss Of their consti-
tutional doctrines; we simply yield to su-
perior force. and admit the existence Of a
solidity and strength in their columns which
we could never realize in their logic. We
shall still be a na,ion--Me United States
more compactand coherent than ever before,
with our emphatic unanimity in denying
the ground-plan of our adversaries cement
ed with heroic, precious blood. But il We
consent to such a middle Of the controversy
as is now being secretly concocted, how
will those questions be answcred?"
From the above extracts it may be learn
cd that Mr.. Greedy was first in favor of
secession, then for war to the bitter end, and
now again for separation. The inconss-
tency Of the man docs not surprise any
one who has watched his course since he
reached the commanding position which for
many years he has occupied. There are
other men Of his party as well as in oppo-
site political ranks who begin to see the diff.
fcultes which must attend an effort at the
subjugation Of the South; but there are
few men, we hope, who will come dcwn to
the position Of abascment that Mr.. Greely
marks out. In substance he says 'sif they
whip us let us grant them all they ASK
The idea of the United States being whip
ped" we would not entertain even for arru.
ments sake-it is preposterous. Before
we get through with the job which Seems to
have been undertaken by the Admnistra
ton it will cost great many lives and a
good deal Of money, but life and money are
valucless ifdisgrace attaches to us as nation
and hence we do not favor the idea of talk
ing Peace to the insurgents, and most par
ticularly would we decline to listen to terms
on the eve Of our own defeat The writer
of this, prior to the breaking out of war, was
as ardent an advocate for Cancellation and
peace--for propositions of this character to
originate Nth the Federal Government as
any one in the country. Mr.. Douglas and
Mr.. Crittend n occupied this position and
so also did Mr.. Seward, Mr. Kellogg and
even the President of the Tn ted States,
but after the South drew the sword and
attacked the emblem Of Nationality at
Sumpter VIC babe goodbye to any peace
considerations until the petition would
cmanate from the insurgents. In Roman
History there is a record to this effect: The
army Of the Republic was attacked by its
enemy 1--WE forget names and nations.) and
was beaten. The opposing commander
rendered terms of peace to the Roman Gen.
cral: these were declined. On the next
day the battle was renewed and the Romans
were victorious. The Roman General then
offered the very same terms which he had
declined the day before: the terms were
accepted but the enemy inquired of the
Romans why the necessity Of the last battle
when terms of the same tenor could have
been made on yesterday. Because" said
the Roman, "you were victorious then, and
noo ROME is the conquerer"'
1t is tclegraphed that Mr.. Lincoln pro-
poses to show in his coming message that
Peace will soon be made 1t lis also written
that the money power of n York city says
that latter one grand battle peace will be
made We trust these statements are
founded in fact and we believe vote of the
whole people, from Maine to Texas, army
and all, if obtained without attempts to
overawe, would say "stop fighting and settle
this difficulty OF the National Convention
plan recommended by the President in his
Inaugural. But SO long as the enemy is
defiant and unbumbled we advocate vigor-
GUS prosecution of the war and in no case
would VIC cmbarrass the action of the
Federal authorities and strengthen the
hands of the South by piping "Peace" as
necessity of oars When they want
Peace and ask for it, in view of the terrors
which already begin to loom up before thei,
vision, then we would say ''listen to the
voice of.the pcnitcnt;" but not until thai
occurs would we abate a jot in making this
war ths1ast one which Mr.. Davis Of Miss
issippi will want to engage in.
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