New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-25
PEACE-COmPHOmksE

Catching at few loose words OF that stu
pendous charlatan and hypocrite, the Right
Reverend, Mejor General LeoDdas Polk, some
of our thinly disguised Secession cotemporarles
begin to suggest reconstruction OF the
Z" Union" upon the basis OF an old-iasbloned
Compromise in favor of Slavery. Such propo-
sitions are worse than nugatory. Not stopping
TO inquire whether the loyal North, after arm
ing half million of men, and expanding five
hundred millions of money, to crush this wanton
rebellion, would, while yet in the pleOitude of
her power. disgrace herself before the world by
falling ut the feet Of the traitors with craven
offers of peace, we can assure these admirers
of JEFF. Davis and his cO-conspiritors, that the
Confederates win spurn all such proposals. II
those journals who are so ready To show the
white feather to the foe would only reflect for
one moment, they would see that the instant
the Federal Government tenders any terms to
the rebels except unconditional submission to
its authority, it betrays weakness of which
its willy enemies will be swift to take adyan-
tagc by promptly informing it that the South
eri Confederacy will accept of nothing short
of an unqualified acknowledgment of its inde-
pendence Were Congress to send Commission
era to Richmond with such proiIers of peace
e. Tie Herald The Journal Of Commerce, TIE
Express, and kindred influences, are indicating,
thew would be met, at the very threshold OF
of the Confederate Council Chamber, with the
naughty and defiant response Gentlemen
" We have declared our independence. we
have rushed TO arms in Its defense. we
" have maintained it in spite OF all your power
(" for nearly year. We are to-day stronger
than ever. If you are prepared TO acknow-
ledge our independence and recognize our
"proper place among the nations of the earth,
well. Ii not, then wrest them from us II
YOU cen. You have our answer. Go! ."
He who thinks such would not be the spirit OF
the reply that would greet any proposals of
peace we might tender 10 the rebel chiefs,
should ponder the following passages from jeff.
Dayiss recent message to the Richmond Con-
gress:
mot only 10 the causes which induced 10 separate 'i
lat IN fg force but they hove been 'rengheuea eud what
doUnt NAV have fingered o. the ud Il any must have
been 90 pieely dis PEELED by Subsequent events H. isead
~ b-ing di.solpon OF lea.ur Il were indeed rebellion
Ia Who'll We are eugssed uisht feel amre yindice,iou for
the course have adopted h. e scenes when are now oei1g
enacted In the United states Oar people nov u.A WIN con
ptuous .ftonuen those with whom theJ have 9een
Recently ociaed They nina "' ,ne Da.e
idea u renewing such connection WIN -uch people we
nav be conteut 20 live peace but separation is ina
sua for ht independence rave asserted we NJ" accept no
alternative"
We place these authoritative declarations, so
explicit 80 clear over against the after-iinner
gable of Polk. The man or the Journal who
dscards the former and accepts the latter is
at heart in league with the CODiederates, aud
watches anxiously for their success. No sane.
loyal citizen is deceived on this vital point.
He gives our Southern foes the credit of sin.
cerity at least. He does not believe that 10
the stupeBdous crimes Of treason and rebellion
they have added the aneakiDg vices Of duplicity
and hypocrisy. Such devious devices are not
Of the co;tOn-lords of the South.
They better beft their whiom allies, the
double-deaIing doughfaces of the North.
The inevitable tendency Of all such sugges-
tons of peace and compromise as have recently
appeared in the columns Of cur contemporaries
is to distract the loyal mind of the North, and
divert it from the work of crushing the rebel
lion By force of arms.
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