Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-17

selves, it is assumed that their owners voluntar l ly send their egroes away for no other reason that can possibly be divined, than to have the trouble of hunting them up again, and upon thiS outrageous assumption, the slaves are to pc man united
 A. Compromise with the South Advocated
 The Freemans Journal and Cathotc ifeg ister. of New York, has the following editorial on the necessity of compromising with the Southern Confederacy
 THE WAY OF PEACE Is it sought to end this war by the North crushing the South! For such purpose no adequate exerton has yet been made. II 5na, is the game the call for only three hundred thousand more soldiers, is as ncommensurate as was the call, sixteen months ago, for seventy five thousand, to whip the South and retake the forts. We leave aside the question whether any united and determined people, numbering twelve, or, as Is the fashion to compute It, eign' millions, can be crushed on their own soll. II was by Irish aid that Ireland was subJugated to England. Begium stands there, with her nve millions, more populous and more lneepenaeht than ever before-though she has been the theater of the most famous battles ot Europe, century after century. Switzerland, with less than three millions of people, has successfully defied the legionary hosts of Austria. ot Lor- rone of Burgundy, and of France. FortugaL with less than four millions, has always sue ceeded in resisting the attempts ot Span, m the proudest days of the latter, to absoro her, by her preponderating power. It seems to be one of the axioms of Bonaparte, which tune sanc- I II d. A npnUi0 h ha free of another, has but to will lt?' Ii the United States are to prove this an unsound axiom, it must be by far different display of power from anything yet exhibited Volunteer l ing must be abandoned, and drafting resorted 1 to. It IS not three hundred thousand men, but million, that the instant necessities of the case call for Hitherto the partisans that rilgnated this pestferons quarrel-fromt the Wades. and Glasses, and Stewards, and Giddinges, and Sum ners, and Chanders, in Congress, or the 1 Beechers and Cheevers, and "three thousand breaches" of New England, in the pulpit down to the gawky Quaker or Bloomer womans bus. band, who reads nothing but Greeley's Weekly Tribune-have, as rule. left the war that has resulted, to be fought out by the very men at the North who have denounced and depreciated their wicked conspiracies But this must end if the war is to be kept up. The innocent have, thus far suffered for the guilty, but the guilty will have to suffer, in their own persons, the horrors of war, if the brute force principle IS to be carried out. It must be war ln which enough of substitutes cannot be found.
 A year ago, those who pleaded for peace were called secessionists," "traitors," etc. Then, the plea was that the war was to set free the union loving people of the South from the gripe Of 9 secession fracten. Then we pleaded I fo Il. at fbora 1of the South such sentiment. and il only re- quired peace to develope it. We pleaded that war must destroy t-that only peace could give it opportunity. That is all past. We say yet, that, nearer or more remote, the only hope for reunion on the old. noble, grand idle. of our forefathers, must date the beginning of its work for realization in the establishment of an honorable peace. As the gallant Tom Sey- mour, ex-governor of Connecticut, said in his letter qnoted by us last week, it i,a mon.trous | failacv" ro ignore peaceful measures" and trust to subngate the Sorthn by the sword a, 1 a means of re union. The union that secured our liberties 6. freemen was A union of free l consent between the States. The violation of that fundamental idea of consent, and of re- served rights not only rallies to the rebel stan dard thousand, attached to tile od government but 2. SO invaded our liberties here in the loyal | States that we write sentences such as these 1 demanded h7 our conscience-the mere rcitcra- | ton of the sentiments of the men who formed th. constitutioR-R0t knowing but that, for | publishing them. some clerk in the executive | department may order suB'ervient agents, by the hands of violence, tO convey us again to ! the dingy walls of Fort Lafayette.
 ! The union loving people Of the seceded | Stat..r' Who are they? Read the cnrrespcn- dence of the Herald Times and Tribuua--those organs of the Black Republican regime. The 1 Tribune correspondence tells us, lying, as usual ' that they Rre the negro slaves. The Herald and Times correspondence tells, alas. too truly, | that there is no such element lef. Tn New Or 1 leans, in Memphis, in Virginia, in North Caro- | lima, in those very cities and States where 1t might chiefly be expected, the prolonged occu- 1 patton by union arms produces only an extu~ guishment of any glimmer of union feeling that l had been thought to exist.
 l What arc we, then, to lock forward tof Is it permanent separation? There are opponents of 1 Lincoln's administration protesting to be know ing ones who have publicly said that this is already looked to as 6 speedy result There are professed Democrats who consider it must hap pen, but who disclam against 1t. in order that 1 the odium of it's accomplishment may rest only on the grave of Black Republicanism. Needless | SOlcljuue! ucSe art buOSe WDO WnlSDer that William H. Seward projects an escape from the cabinet in time to avoid the odium of the &C., knewledgment Of the result of his own handi work. Hopeless attempt
 l For our part, permanent separation is an idea to which we cannot reconcile our minds-for 1t is the knell of civil liberty, and of all other b- critics, on this continent. It is the harbinger of huge standing armies, of enormous taxation. of industry oppressed, and of peoples crushed. Apprehension of this Is already freighting many 1 ships with American citizens, renouncing the country, and fleeing with what they can save of their effects. It is an idea that we steadfastly refuse to accept, but to counteract 1t, to remedy 1 it. our first need is peace.
 What is the way ofpeace?
 The way of peace among peoples is compro- mise There is no other way When Solomon died, the ten tribes of Isrea gathered to com plain to his son, Roboam, that the yoke of his fathers government discomforted them. The wise old men counseed Roboam to speak softly to the rebels, and to acquiesce in their demands, and that thus they would ceave to his throne forever. The ignorant men, of newer genera ton, advised him to refuse "not to treat with rebels with arms In their hands" He took the advice of the fools, and Israel told Judah to look to his own house, and they separated forever.
 History is full of the like instructions. Not long since we cited the conduct of Louis XI. of France, who by frank compromise with his powerful rebel vassals, disarmed them, and thus
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