Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-13
The Rond 10 peace.

Forney writes from Washington to the
Philadelphia Press, under date of November
10, as follows;
The Peace party of the South is as differ.
ent from the Peace party of the North as if
it existed upon another planet. The peace
makers of the slave States abhor the Seces
sion conspirators, because they know their
iufamy ard feel their oppression. The
peace politicians of the free States pray for
the Secession conspirators, because they hail
their treason as highly aristocratic and
praisew ortby. The first class would have
peace by recognizing the full power of the
Federal Government; the second would
secure it by recognizing the Southern Con-
iederacy.
At present the Southern advocates Of peace
are forced to be silent; but they are waiting
for the moment when they may spring at the
tbroais Of their tyraRts. Nothing ember-
raises them more than the intrigues of the
opponents of the war in the loyal States, and
| nothing makes them so strong as the show
of vigor and success on the part of the Union
army. The men who are at work for this
noble purpose need only a great Union
victory to authorize them to speak and act
| They will, am we'll convinced, ask nothing
| that we can not cOncede. They will simply
| demand that the seeded States shall be
permitted to return to the Union, to occupy
/
! dragged out of it.
JIfferson Davis and his followers will, OF
! course, resist any such reconciliation, be-
cause if ever made they will never recover
their lost ground. Hence it is that the con-
spirators 6ght 80 desperately in the field, in
order to impress the Testive people of the
South with the belief that the recognition Of
the Confederacy is certain if they can main.
tain their army another six months; and
4or ha,r ind cfr;nI of =, L.
from the Southern masses any evidence thai
\ Mr.. Lincoln's Administration is disposed tC
make no war upon the peculiar institution
of slavery, except when 1t is used to ham
per and harsss the cause of the U nion. JEFF
ierson Davis hates tie peace men Of tht
South as much as he likes the peace men o.
the North; and If he is broken down, none
will have done more to accomplish hs over
throw than the Southern patriots who stanC
ready to grasp the first occasion to return Il
the Union fold.
There are some politicians in the Iowa
States who want no peace that is not estab
lisbed upon the ruins Of slavery. These meI
trembe at the idea of reconciliation, be
cause it may deprive them of their especia
hattle-cry. They are of those who will insis
that General Fremont has been displaced
because of his opinions on slavery, and WHIT
denouDce Mr.. Lincoln because he does no
make emancipation the war shout of ou
soldiers. Grave considerations will max
the efforts of all such casuists most impotent
Let great victory crown our arms let th
patriots of the seeded States demand peact
upon the accepted basis of the existing Con
stiutioD, with all its conceded denial of tn
assumed right of Secession Ian assumed righ
that will perish with the rebellion itself AM
every other issue will be lost sight of. Their
is, in fact, but one road to peace: it is not b,
the way of recognition, nor yet by separs
ton. It is assuredly to be effected, first b,
the force of crushing defeat of the arme,
traitors, and second, upon the appeal of tn
patriotic friends Of the regular Governmen
in the seeded States.