Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-29
The War-mhAn will 1t Cease2

Throughout the northern citleS there aie uh mistakeable indications of desire tor peace. The conservative press is becoming bolder ana more outspoken, and we hear of peace petiuons ia Philadelphia, and an imposing call for peace demonstration in New York. Similar evidences of reaction in the war feeling are l exhibited in other northern cities. But too much importance should not be attached to these demonstrations of feeling in the cltles.- The cities are not fair opponents of northern feeling and opinion "Paris'' is not France" in America, and the voice of the northern cities is not the voice of the northern people.
 | The interests of the cities are directly identl- | fled with peace. The war status IS utterly rum | ous to the business and prosperity of the north ern cities These, too, constitute an infinitely larger proportion of the aggregate wealth and money value of their respective States, than IS the case in the South. Destroy the business of the northern cities and you desolate whole re- zion. Destroy the cities of the South and southern resources and wealth are but tempo rarly crippled. The South will continue as strong as ever, and her cities under tae magic wand of Ceres would again spring into life and activity. There is no need for them to be many Or populus. The business of an agricultural country can be prosperous and we'll conducted
 without the creation of mammoth cities, which are oftener the sources of corruption and weak ness than of wholesome vigor.
 But we must look beyond the cities of the North for the tone of northern sentiment and for the impulse to its political action. | The cities of the North were comparatively con servative and entirely pacific up to the lombard ment of Sumter. They were in hopes the secession fever' would die out, if let alone and that their trade and profit would after while | go on in the accustomed channel. But the ru- ral districts have for years been fanatically anti slavery in sentiment, and growing more ;ntoler- ant and hostile to the South from year to year, 1 until it reached in the election of Lincoln, the climax of it's fierce exultation. Its long baffled and long delayed vengeance upon the slave oligarchy" seemed near at hand and an :" ire pressible" yell of delight went up from the uni versal black republican press. The metropoli 1 tan papers of that party being edited with more of ability attracted more of southern attention. ] But they did not exceed or even equal, in ve- nom the rural papers. Indeed, they were but the concentration and reflex of the rural senti ment It is notorious that their patronage is derived more from the country than the city, l Their readers were mostly among the rural population.
 It is the country vote that sends black repub- 1 lican members to congress. It is the rural sen | tment that is now chiefly heard upon It's floor and speaks in its legislation. Now, the country population that tills the soil or hangs around the villages and finds employment along the
 lines of rivers, and canals and railroads at the North, have not yet felt, as the cities have felt, the sore pressure of war. They have no large sums garnered up in brick houses, and city lots, and wharf stocks, bank stocks, insurance stocks, in ships and steam lines and mills and factories
 They have made but hand-to-mouth living hitherto with quarter of a dollar to spend every week to attend an abolition freelove and
 womans right lecture as the whim dictates, and thus far they do not feel materially worse off for the war. The sore pinch of nothing to eat and nothing to wear in its literal agonies has not yet visited them. They have not yet learned 1 to direct their curses from the slave-driving rebels to their own abolition preachers, lectur- CTS and teachers who are the real authors of the ruin fast coming upon their country.
 1 Notwithstanding Bethel, and Manassas and Springfield, they still believe the rebellion can be put down, and they fill their imaginations with 1 pictures of pendent traitors upon innumerable scalfolds to appease the shades of their canon ized John Brown. They do not comprehend the real strength of southern resources and their | capacity for war. They exult in the fancied power of numbers, and are truculent of north ern ships and ship yards, of the wealth of their cities and their mills, and mines, and factories and foundries, and imagine that they have only half starved, enervated poverty stricken and divided people to conquer. They see only the bloated belly of northern wealth that has german dized so much of southern wealth ,and do not see the members that have fed it, and without whose continued laborS it must shrink up and perish. The rural population of the North ha ve much to learn, ere they realize the evils their own fanaticism has brought upon the country At present an abundant production makes food | cheap for all, while the stimulus of govern 1 ment demanded for army uses, prevents a ruin l ous depreciation. The war, too, creates war party in the officers, ambitious of distinction, and in the army of contractors, of mechanics and laborers in almost every branch of industry to which it gives employment and fat jobs.
 These are some of the reasons why we do not look for immediate peace. There is nothing r the tone and action of the northern government indicative of peace. The national pride of the l North has been aroused by their late disastrous defeats and now adds intensity to their hatred | They will make no proposals for peace until they have been thoroughly humiliated. They are still for war and there will be no peace unti ! one has been conquered.
 nezg~ For the last ten days the weather has
 been disagreeably damp, with occasional driz zling rains; yet the river continues low, barely 1 allowing small boats to run between here and | Napoleon.
 PRESIDENTIAL AND CONGRESSIONAL ELEC.