Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-10

Peace PropOsIIIons--The Hollow De-
lusIOn OF such tnlk--The Destruc-
tiOn and Degradation which would
Result from their entertainment.
The n. Y. Express was one of the papers
that stood out 4 hoping against hope" I'M
til the eleventh hour of the war outLurst
But it ceased at last to have any hopes of
the salvation of the government except
saved by the loyalarm of the country.
From the last issue we take the follow
ing concerning the hypocritical cry of
peace and peace propositions which seces-
sion sympathisers indulge in;
The only form of "Peace" now existing,
possible, is the hauling down of the o. S.
flag from Fortress Monroe, on TO Texas, and
the complete, hearty recognition of the Sc
cessiOn flag. They who think of this sort
of peace, ought to maintain it, by addition
al propositions for standing army of at
least three hundred thousand nen-to be
stretched in cordons, from the line of the
SusquehannHh river, along all the bluffs
of the Ohio and Missouri rivers-with for
tresses TO be erected on those bluffs cost
ing mt least 100000, DOCTOR unless this
standing army follow, and stand in these
fcrtresses-the Peace would not lenst-
nay, not last, even long enough to build
the fortresses
peace under existing circumstances,
is a proposition to change the whole char
acter and nature OF the people of the Uni
ted States, and to make "free Government
impossible, both North and South-as
free, self-goverLment cannot exist amid
huge standing armiesand mighty fortresses.
peace" just now, is TO inaugurate in
these United States, the passport system
of Europe, the Gordon lines of armies, the
custom-houses, in every little interior town.
the gems ddrmss, everywhere, the sentry
boxes, the mounted cavnlry-the inspec-
ton and ransacking of every trunk, or
package, in every border town by these
gems d'armes. In short, just now, @Peace"
would turn this Republic of America into
some shattered -bristling Germany
every railroad in an hour or two, turning
US up, under some new ''sovereignty,i'-
with some new show of passport, and some
new inspection of custom-houSe. Such
a peace, IL possible in theory, Is impossi-
BILE in practice,-and such a peace, IL en-
dured even by us OF the East and North,
would not, could not be, endured by the
shut mp, Gagged up prisoners of the great
Valleys ofthe West, who claim, as birth
tiSut lEoW OOui Tree rivers Tree seas from
the upper lakes to the Gulfof Mexico. To
talk Of such peace is. therefore, to talk
OF severing the great West from the East
and North, and to talk of splitting the Free
States into "two or three coufederacies"-
even those afterwards to be broken as will,
caprice, or passion dictates.
But let US not be misunderstanding
while maintaining tie integrity Of the
Union, it is our duty, before God and man.
10 lido all we can to make it the interest and
the pleasure Of every State, South as well
as North, TO remain in that Union. If sep
aration from the South were possible in
continued peace, We should prefer 1t 10
ProlongiDg civil War--as the longer it lasts,
the greater It's curse 10 all of us,-but no
peace now is possible,-only truce at
best, 10 be Rlmott instantly broken, is now