Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1862-01-01
Condition. of Peace,


It will be very hard for the North to accede to
such terms Of peace as the Confederacy will pro,
badly hernandez she sheathes the bloody sword
which she drew in the cause of Southern indepen.
dence. Without doubt, says the Mobile Register,
the status Of Maryland, as well as of Kentucky and
Missouri, must be determined as a condition OF
peace. To give up to the South the goodIy State
Maryland will be the bitterest pill which the North
will have to swallow, for with it she must give W
her present Capitol City Of Washington. Yet must
she swallow it, and she will only DO i. with the
point of the sword at her throat The process Of
deglutitiOn may be rendered easier by the manner
Of administration The terms of conditional
tresty will probably be that the question shall be
lett to the people OF the State to decide at the ballot
box, eli troops Of both gides being Withdrawn from
her soil, whether she viii 20 with the North or the
South. Before Consenting to this fair arbitration
the North Will be reduced to desperate strait for
/ it knows, as well as the South does with what ma.
ton Maryland Will cast her lot. Il knows that she
is now held ag conquered province and what
the will Of the people will be whenever 1t can be
| asserted.
1t Is the }uty Of the Southern States TO their
m Sc a5!y enslsyed sister, whose struggles for Ebs
erty Of action are illsuppresssd by hundreds of
thousands Of tyrannic bayonets, and many thou
sands Of whose gallant sons are exile soldiers Of
our army, to make her cause ours, and to make no
peace until her right is vindi2sted She is with ia
heart and soul her eiszans prisoners in their.
sentineled homes her legislators were in,prisoned
lest they should legally declare her independent Of
the North, and we are bound by honor and inter,
est, and s!l that can appeal to our humanity and
sympathy, to make no peace until the despot is
driven from her borders, or is compelled to agree
to fair a,,bission of the question Of secession to
the people.
The acquisition of Kentucky and Missouri is not
complicated with such embarrassmeGts as in the
case of MARYLAND. They are both With us by legis
lative action in some sort already and possession of
the sell Ia ROW being successfully disputed by our
arnR Soo,or or later we shall hold them to their
northern Ipts and their status with the South will
be an HE conclusion. With the withdraw
al expulsion of tie enemy all their claim to these
States will be practically vacated. When that
stage in the war is reached We shall have been so
triumphautlv victorious, and the North so thorough
y whipped thatitmsy be ready to entertain PROPOSE
tons of peace even with the condition as 70 Maryland
1t is more probable, howeTer-if aughS can be &C.
counted a nrobablity in specializing On the course
of that Infatuated power that after being beaten
out of Missouri and Kentucky the North viii con~
centrate all ;tg energies in last desperate struggle
for Maryland and washington, ard, if not driven
from tbe, ro,rsct the war antil iE is wearied into
acceiing to terms for 5i,sir railEq TishueRt.
The pale. little star of Delaware re fear will
never CLEAR, again in the galaxy CT the Southern
Statehood of States. She was half abOlitiOnized
before the var, sud her loss is of little moment;
at least she is not worth RloOdshed. Let her go.
Her better citizens will come to Va.