Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-29
TERms OF PEAOE.
From tho chicago Times.l

From the Chicago Timesl
The reply of Governor Vance, of North Caro-
lima, 10 the proposition Of Governor Stanley, for
q conference Of commissioners, has given the
Abolition newspapers uubounded pleasure. The
subs stanee of the answer was that the proposi-
lion should have been made to the Confederate
government st Richmond, and that North Caro-
ina would resist to the death sHbjUgstiOn by
the Federal ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS upon
which an Abolition organ uses this language:
% Tho rebels ask for ne concession, and viii
take none save the acknowledgement of their
absolute independence. They are nos such
neyices in history as not to know that when the
sword has once been appealed to it is the sword
and nothing else that can secure permanent
peace We must either conquer OF be cOnqueTed
We must either subject the revoited States to
the Constitution, or let them destroy the Consti-
tuition
The evident truism in the two last sentences
means, as is elsewhere asserted, that uneOndi-
tiOnal surrender or absolute Independence sre
the only conditions upon which peace can be
made with the reyolted States. Governor Vance
says the conditions Of peace are to be the ae
acknowledgement of the independence Of the Con
iedeTsey. The abolition fanatics declare the
sole terms of peace to be the.entirs surrender by
the South Of every political right. Democrats
and other conservative Union men are willing
to close the war when the supremacy Of the
Constitution shall be Acknowledged and restored.
Here are three separate propositions, each widely
different, two of them directly opposite, and
each supported by powerful interests and 3ar-
ties. One Of them must prevail. We do not be-
lieva hat it will be possible for either Of the sd
vscaies Of the two first Of these propositions TO
maintain them. We cannot compel Unconstt
ticna Terms from the seeded States We can
not Rpclaim in advance cur intention to confs-
cate tpfiT property, free their slaves, destroy
their T5thts IS political communities, and thus
degr&dtsthem before the world, and hope to OBJ
tain peace save by a war of exteIminatioD.
These are the terms proposed By the Abolition
lists, and meant by them, when they say eve
must either conquer the South OF be conquered
by them " Gov Vance expresses his present pur-
pose and the feelings, doubtless, Of a majority
Of The people of North Csrolina. In this eK-
preston we may also fld the purpose of Con
iederate leaders and the feelings Of majority
of the people of the seeded States. But this
purpose and feeling must be changed, or the
purpose of loyal people to re-estabish the gov
ernment must change, or We must eItsrminate
the entire Southern population, except the
negroes.
We are told that the South asks and viii &C
cept Of no sc concession" No one Of whom we
have heard, except the New York Tribuns, has
purpOged to make concessions. A few days
after the issuing Of the Presidents proelama-
ton, that paper proposed convention, and it
was magnanimous and even gracious in its sug-
eestions respecting the conditions upon which
peace could be obtained It then sang ''come love,
come" 1t has since changed its tune to " the
battls cry Of freedom and is now more valiant
and bl0oithirsty than ancient Pistol before eat
iug Fluellens leek It's valor meets a rf sponse
in Yanca of North Carolina, and is echoed by
the Confederate leaders " They are not such
novices in history as not to know" that the surest
met hod Of obtaining honorable peace is bold de-
6snes Of the enemy From otEer sources than
Gov Vance and Confederate leaders we can
learn that there is ! groging sentiment 10 the
South in favor OF the old Union. It has been
revived end strengthened by the revival of
trpiy constitutional party in the North. The
reply Of Gov Ydnes and the defiant attitude of
the South, are to-day the strongest arguments
which can be IL favor Of s return to the policy
FIRST announced by the administration in com
mencing the war We have had sufficient e1-
perieuce to prove our inability to suhjugate the
South. and we have had sufic ent experience to
prove our inability to prosecute the war TO an
honorable teTminatiOn-One that will place them
on an equality with ourselves, and restore she
government 70 its originsl footing. Want ard
death pressed upon people, induce reflection
of the terms upon which these ealamjties may
be avoided. A high sIicited and chivslric peo-
pie will ch0osa misery and death in preferences
to degradation but there is not eR instance in
history Of these having been CHOSEN by nation
when they could be honoTsbly avoided