Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-05
THE WHITE FLAG MOVEMENT
From Ihe Louisville Journal.

l 4IONc 1N6 AOuESCtUe cONiHOt.
 We suppose that no intelligent man in the ci
 ty needs to be told that the project for peace
 meeting in this city. last Saturday night, was a
 Secession project. It originated with Seces-
 sionists, and was so far as executed at all, ex
 ecuted by Secessionists. It was Secessionism
 with it's face under white flag. MT. Trebue
 when he found the Union men to constitute
 seven -eighths of the Courthouse meeting. call
 ed upon the "Secessionists to go to Concert
 Hall, where their meeting was officered and ad- dressed by Secessonists, and only by Secession ists. They chose to make use of some Union names, but it was trick, fraud, an imposi tion.
 We have all been for some time expecting that the Secessionists would get up some new dodge but none of us could guess what it would be. Nobody, we are sure, dreamed that it would be peace and white flags. If any one had made such suggestion, he would have been laughed at. The idea that our fierce Secessionists, our raging Disunionists, our terrible fre-eaters, our dreadful war spirits, who from the first have endeavored to shame Kentucky from her neu- trality, and to induce her to make common cause with the South in this horrible war, would in the moment of utmost desperation. their mouths frothing and their eyes bloodshot with fury, go to work in a peace increment and cover them selves all over with white fags-the idea that lneSc tlSCIS, HO1teS, CdlttlHOuHlo "ouiN4 ItshO the visage of lambs, and insist upon following shepherds with white handkerchief mounted up- on the ends of their crooks and flying over their sheep-cots, would have been too absurd and lu- dicrous not to be laughed at by every one to whom it might have been suggested.
 These bogus advocates of peace passed se- ries of resolutions. Look at the resolutions They are curiosity They say nothing about the conditions of peace-they simply cry for pence. For aught that appears from them, the authors would just as soon have peace on one condition as another. They don't see to care whether peace is made by the division of the Union into two Confederacies by it's separation into half dozen Confederacies, by the stipula- ton of the payment of tribute by the North to the South or by the South to the North, or by any other sort of treaty whatever Their coun- try honor is nothing, her prosperity nothing peace, peace, at all hazards, peace upon any terms, is everything. And these peace-people call upon their accomplices and dupes to have white flag raising next Saturday, each one wear inr a white rosette or ribbon, and invoke them to deck houses, steamboats, cars, cars carriages, hacks, buggies, wagons, drays and wheelbarrows with white flags. Fellows stuck all over with revolvers, bowies, dirks, &c., are to wave white flags in their hands as they walk the streets or s CD up to the bars of coffee houses. If one of them cant conveniently get white flag he must throw off his coat and display his shirt unless like little Dicky Douts, it happens to dis splay it self By the way they would make a very inter- cstinc procession, each with his "shirt-tail out the emblem of peace.
 Our readers may remember that the adoption or rather the pretentcd adoption, of armed neu- trality by the Kentucky Secessionists, was as sudden. as it was universal One day all of the Secession organs and leaders in Kentucky were dcnouncino neutrality as the absurdcst and Vi lest and most infamous thing ever concocted and two or three days afterw .rd the whole of them adopted it as their policy and pledged themselves to its serupulous observance. The entire movement originated in common cen of control and throughout Kentucky it was uni versal. Evidently, this white flag movement has originated in the same center of control and no doubt it is intended to be in like manner universal. Simultaneously with the manifesto tion in Louisville, manifestations of the same sort seem to have been made in numerous other counties All over the State the consumption of white dry-goods is likely to be tremen dous.
 It is impossible to treat this movement, know ing as we do who originated it and why they originated it, with any sort of respect. The friends of the Union will not, can not, look upon it with respect. They have no more regard for Secession under white flag than under the blackest flag that ever hoated at pirates mast head They recognize but one flag, the old Star Spangled Banner, which they hope to live and die under. It was the streaming meteor of free dom to their fathers they are resolved that it shall be the same to their children The white upon it's folds is an emblem of peace; the red proclaims to the nations that we shrink not from war; and the blue, the color of the sky, tells that, whether in peace or in war, our appeal IS hoovon