New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-19
TERMS OF PEACE.


faith. OF this truth, the purchased organ OF
Seymourte Democracy in our city affords daily
calculations.
We said long ago, and We have doubtless at
intervals repeated, that the Civil War now
desolatipg our country must come to an end
that this end cannot in the nature Of things
be very distant-and that this end should and
must be O restoration of the authority OF the
Federal Constitution and the integrity OF the
Union. In other words, the Shareholders Re
bellion being ogerthrown or abandoned in des-
pair. the benefcent reign of Peace, Order and
Thrift under the Federal compact will be re-
newcd
But how will this affect Slavery
That depends on the time at which the Re.
bellion shall be given up. If it be speedily
abandoned and desisted from, every State that
sees fit will continue slaveholding. But ii the
Rebels hold out after the LIST of January next,
when the Presidents Proclamation of Freedom
is TO take full effect, why then the ease will
be bravely altered. Ii our Armies shall, after
that date, pierce the heart of The Rebellion,
which is Of course the heart also of the Slave
Power, the slaves OF the Rebel States will be
liberated. and can never be reGnslaycd. We
do not say that the States now in rebellion,
having been restored TO loyalty, may not still
retain and give vitality to slayeholding laws;
but we do maintain that those persons who,
for the National salvation, shall have been
emanciDated, cannot be re6usayed without
manifest contempt for and defiance Of the Ma
tonal authority; and we say, moreover, that
we know no instance in history where -Four
Millions Of human beings, once emancipated,
have ever been reenslayed, or in which cOmmu-
mites which have been freed from Slavery by
a great political CONFUSION have proceeded to
reestablish tia. bligbting scourge. We conf
IDENTITY assume therefore that Slavery will not
be Reconstructed in any State from which Tie
Proclamation of the President and the advanc-
ing Armies of the Union shall have expelled it.
But again:
We stated on Monday, on authority in
which we coniide, that leading Democrats Of
this State are nO9 prosecuting clandcstine ne
goations with the Rebel chiefs at Richmond
with view TO inducing those chiefs to return
20 the Union and resume in eilect) the for
mer mastery over il. Aud we are asked, with
well affected surprise, what objection We have
TO oil this supposiDg it so. We answer:
J. We object to any negotiation or parleyiog
with the Rebels except by the continued
authorities of our country. They are, and d.
ways have been, eager to welcome any over
lures from the Rebel chiefs looking to their
return 20 loyalty. Nobody aPPrehends that
Pssileut Lincoln or ms Oajne. wculd
refuse any lair terms Of reconciliation and
peace. The laws Of the land forbid iltermel-
ding with diplomacy or treatylnakinc by
unauthorized persons. We stand .or Z" the Unioa,
tAe Constitution, aud tue enforcement OF tue
Laws"
,. We protest against any prefer OF party
AID or aliiance % the Rebels a. an indueemcnt
10 return to Loyalty. Let them come back as
our equals not as rulers or cOaquerers Let
the conditions of reconciliation be such as TIE
Government shall accede to--not made over .ts
mead or behind its back.
5. We object 20 q Convention Of the States uu-
der pledges 10 devise new guarantees for a par
ticuar ntcrrst-new ADVANTAGES for any Sec
ton. President Lincoln openly and earnestly
favored a Convention in the early part Of 1861.
So did Gov. Morgan. So did We The whole
Republican party would have united 10 The
call Of q Convention had the muicontcnis pro-
posed it, in full view Of the Moral certainly
that we should be o minority therein. But
they would have no Convention, because thoy
'gan,ed fight. When they have Ind enough
q, this, they will quit it, aud peace uadcr
the Union being restored we shall be
iorl,oe ] 10 look with favor on aDy demand for
A Cony.p. ton that may come from any quarter
But it ynn. be emphaticaly trec Convention
not morfg, ged 10 any interest, an theory.
any peot;0n; bit delegation by the whole
People OF the O.lted States Of their sovereignty
TO such persons ID they may esteem worthy to
assume the m0mentous trust or revising their
law. And If there should be an
or compact beforehand that The
Democrats of The Free States and toe late
Rebels Of the South would combine TO rule and
.. run " that Convention, that coalition would
probably impel as to oppose the call.
Tho Democratic organ would Ike 10 know
whether we desire any essential chanGe IN tho
pOlicy loreshadowed in President LIncoln's
Proclamation OF Freedom; also, whether we do
not know that the President proposes or med
itates such change. We answer thAt we de.
sire no such change, and do not believe that
tie President win make any. We consider the
present shape of tie whole matter good one,
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