Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-07-18
MORNING LEADER.
FRIDAY MORNING, july rs, 1867.


The shortest Read 70 Peace.
Hbits was Douglas who said that "the short
Oat rOsd to peace was the most stupendous
proparations for war" That was com
prehensive and practical view, and con-
tained more wisdom and efficacy than all
he speeches and resolves and compromises
that could be submitted BY half dozen
- PeaOe Congresses such as assembled at
Washington a year and half ago. And
N is as true to-day as it was when the war
was opening. There are men even now
Who cry peace, when there is and can be
40 peace without first making and using
ne most stupendous preparations for war
q The eOh0iliatory party know this as well as
we, but they raise false issues and falsify
history in their attempts to avert the right
eous vengeance Of an outraged Govern
ment upon the rebels. They are Mortified
at the shedding Of blood and would sub
nit to whatever terms the traitors would
dictate rather than force upon them the
supremacy Of the laws al the cost Of lit
{, ts bl9od-lettiRg. These are the men who
mourn more over the incarceration Of one
rebel in Fort Warren than over the massa-
ere Of q hundred Union men and women
" gaerrillas; who are more vehement in
aenouneing the Abolitionists than the
traitors; who read with unrufied temper
Of The killing of thousand Federals in
Nattle, but boil over with wrath if the
slaves Of a rebel are set free. They are
the men who are fercest in putting down
any "interference with our Generals
when the policy of capturing Manassas or
Richmond with bitches and parallels is
criticised, but who themselves call for the
.TelSoval Of Fremont and Hunter when they
propose to fight the rebels with their own
slaves. They set forth with grim exact
ness the war tax which every labOring
man win have to pay upon the necessaries
OflifefOr his family, but frOwn down every
binrCSsisiOn TO levy part of the expense of
the war upon the rebels who have caused
it by the oOnhsCatiOn Of their property
They would give the right hand of fellow
ship to the villainous traitor in whose
glOved hand is concealed the poisonous
dagger.
sll We have no longing for such peace as
-this. There is peace that we do look for
It Is that peace that is compelled at the
point Of the bayOnet; that follows such ar
lgunents as MIME balls and grape and |
canister; that is forced upon the miscre-
ants who have outraged every principle Of |
deoency and morality, and have put them
selves outside the pale of Christianity by
their barbarous warfare We are for
peace backed up by a million muskets
in the hands of million men fired by
righteous indignation against all treason
andtraisors, and the peacemakers we would
employ are guns of the heaviest calibre |
and longest range We want No peace |
until the American flag floats undisturbed |
over every State in the American Union,
and until every inhabitant Of that Union
acknowledges its supremacy. We want no /
peace until every vestige Of rebellion is
burned out Of the souls Of rebels with the
hQs iron Of q nations wrath, until Lib
- ~ SHlVH sfisizE TTyryz-tt
nom the PenobseOt to the Rio Grande. and
until the "star spangAed Banner" shall
have been played as the departing dirge of
every leading rebel upon the scaffold That
Psaee is the only one worth having, and
that one is worth fighting for to the last