Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-09
Peace Prospects and Proposals..


There is bat one duty for the North and
the goyerdment. 1t is to abate not II jot of
their efforts or their hopes. We have now
got the rebellion, to use fIEorite phrase
Of the late Mr.. Cambreleng, on the hip,
and we can give it, il We please, its death.
fall. We can defeat It so sigually, IL We
push on, that not another such monster
will be spawned in unknoWn time. The
main susteDapce and support of the slave
lords is their arrogance, their fancied suba.
riority to Others, and particularly their SOW
ereiBn contempt OF the mudsilIs Of the
North, whom they estimate from the poll
ticiauV they have met. Accustomed to in
tercourse With such imbecilities as Buchsu-
an, or such sycophants as she Woods, they
have made the common mistake Of con.
founding all with few, and learned to de.
spise US. Accept their proffer of peace,
and they will continue to despise us, while
they cheat US; but fog them into submis-
sion, as we eau easily do with our present
advantages, aud they will not only respect
US all the days of their lives, but they will
never fly OF again.
Even Jet these silly aud pretentious
leaders talk of debating terms to the North,
and in the plan said by the TFiBuae to have
been brought 10 Washington by a certain
| Doctor Barney-no relative, we hope, Of
our excellent Collector-they demand their
own conditions. COnceit like this is insuE.
ferable. Here are a parcel of scamps who
haveperpetrated the most enormous Grim Is,
brought ruin and dEsOlatiou upon thous-
ands Of happy homes, and worked more
moral mischief than even Catiliue and his
crew, Fthe infamous school of Marat, and
all in pursuance of no generous aim, OF
mistaken principle, but for their own fight
70 tramPie on the rights Of q harmless aud
despised race-Rnd when they are beaten
to the wall, when their armies are in full
retreat, their ports bioekaded, their cities
seized, and their entire social system tot.
teripg-they turn cOOIly round and say,
"Well, we'll forgive you aud make up, if
yon will allow us our old political rela-
tions and supremacies" Every rascal
among them knows that he ought 10 be
hung the next minute, and yet be talks Of
the terms lie is prepared to accept or
grant.
What is worse, there are mean, lily.liT.
cred men at the North who, in their anxiety
for peace, will be apt to grasp at any con
ditions Of amnesty. There are politicians
who, for the sake Of political success, will
in order to get these old aIlies back in OH.
eial places. There are merehApts, WsfeaF,
high hs Our mercantile character has pFSy.
ed itself since the beginning Of the war,
aud now again in the Lancashire distress,
who will regard the prospects Of renewed
trade more than they will the honor Of the
nation or the peFpetpity otuthe future re-
latious Of North and South. There LAY
be, even In the presence Of the enemy, SOL
diers who are weary Of their exposures,
their dangers and their wounds, aud who
would gladly welcome any, opportunity
Of retnrning 70 their workshops and their
Il faFma
Bat this, We are confident, Is not the
spirit Of the masses Of the people. They
wish peace, bat they Fish t. only on the
soundest and mosE honorable conditions :
not n peace which would leave the old
sores of state still bleeding which xoald
beeOms.par on the slightest pTpYoeation /;
which would render the mighty sacrifices
10 blood and treasure, Of the past year
ghas1y mOekery; And which would leave
rs still the aceomPliees aud abettors Of The
i tgreatest criminals. OF the ninsteenth cen.
tREyaf No , they want peace worthy Of
the gtapa pstiqpAl feeling which began and
hAsthQs far sustained the WaI, F0FthY Of