Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-07-15
Chapter for Compromisers and Pac-
IticatOrS.

The following remarkable article, from
the Richmond Enquirer of the 10Th, is &
review of the recent meetings in the
North for peace with the rebels and wal
against the Government. Mr.. Wood, Mr.
Wall, Mr.. Seymour, Mr. Fitz John Por.
ter, and other peace-makers equally war
like, receive the lash unsparingly. Its
Importance will be generally appreciated
TWO YEARS HENCE
In two years, as many persons hope, we
may possibly have peace-that is, always
provided we continue to repulse and de
feat the invading enemy. The Yankee
Democracy" is certainly rousing itself
and preparing for new struggle lat the
ballot-boXj in the great ca1tSeof the ''spOiLs, y
or, as they call it, the cause of Constitu-
tonal Liberty, Those Democrats are ev,
identity beginning to raise Peaes platform
for their nert Presidential election; and il
they have the good luck to be helped on
and sustained by more and more serious
disasters to the Yankee army in the field
there Is no doubt that the present devour-
ers OF the said spoils at Washington may
soon be so discredited and decried that
our enemy's country would be ripe for
such peaceful ballot-box revolution.
1t Is sincerely to lie hoped that those
earnest champions of constitutional free
dom will be helped on and sustained in
the manner they require-namely, by
continued and severe reyerses in the field;
and it is the first and most urgent duty OF
our countrymen so to help and sustain
that Democratic party. 1t is nothing to
US which of their factions may deVour
their spoil" just rs little does it signify
to whether they recover or do not re-
cover that constitutional liberty which
they so wantonly threw away in the mad
pursuit of Southern conquest and plum
der. But it is of the utmost Importance
to US aid III stimulating disatfectiOn among
Yankees against their own Government,
and in demOralizing and disintegratlng
society IN that God-abandOned county,
We can do this in one way-namely, by
thrashing their armies and carrying the
war to their own firesides. Then, indeed
conscientious constitutional principles will
hold sway; peace platforms will look at
tractive; arbitrary arrests will become
odius, and habeas corpus be quoted at a
premium. This is the only way we can
help them. In tbs sense, and TO this extent
those Democrats are truly our allies, and a0e
shall cndeaQQr 10 do our dUty 6y them.
~-But they evidently look IUr UtlivI and
further help at our hands, and of quite a
different sort. No doubt they are pleas
ed for the present, with the efficient aid
which the Confederate army is atfording
them. Chancellorville was a Godsend to
them, and the tremendous repulse at Port
Hudson is quite plank in their platform.
Yet they understand very well that no
matter now soundly their armies may be
happily beaten; no matter how complete
ly Lincoln's present war policy may be
by its results, yet all this will
not be enough to enable the uHteTTifed De-
naocracy TO clutch tic '.Sp0iLS, or, as they
phrase it, to restore the Constitution OF
their fathers. This, of itself would new
er give them Peace Democrat President
and Cabinet; it would only result in
another AbClItionist Administration, with
a Secretary of War, and new Comman-
Chief, and slightly different pro-
gramme for crushing the rebellion. -
Those Black Republicans are in power
after long waiting, pining, intriguing in
the cold shade of the opposition-and
they now have the numerical perponder
ance so decidedly that they both can and
will hold on to the office, with Il clutch
ike death. The Democrats can do abso-
lutely nothing without the South" as
they persist in terming these Confederate
States; and they cannot bring themselve
to admit tie thought that lce acOuLd refuse TO
mite aoih them las, alas! are used to do, IN a
grand rnicersat Presidential campaign, for
Democratic President lCith peace platform
and the "CoHStit,tioH as Il IS" In fact this
whole two years war, and the two years
more war which has yet to be gone
is itself, in their eyes, only
campaign, only somewhat
more vivacious than ordinary.
This explains the Vallandigham peace
in New York and New Jersey,
and the 'manly declarations" of Mr.. Ho-
ratio Seymour and other patriots. do
not let us forget" says Fernando Wood,
writing to the Philadelphia meeting, that
those who perpetrate such outrages as
the arrest and banishment of Mr.. Val
do so as necessary war meas
ures. Let us, therefore strike at the cause,
and declare for peace and against the 'cdr."
This would sound very well if the said
declaring for peace" could have any ef-
feet whatever in bringing about peace.
f man falling from a tower could arrest
his fall by declaring against it, then the
declarations of Democrats against the war
might be of some avail. As it is, they re-
.emble that emphatic pronouncement of
l1r. Washington Hunt: Let it be pro-
claimed upon the hOuSetOpS, that no citizen
Of New York shall be arrested without
process of law" There is no use IN bawl-
ng from the housetops what everybody
Knows to be nonsense. Or this resolution
of the New Jersey meeting:
"ResoLUed, That in the illegal seizure
md banishment of the Hon. G. i. Val
andigham, the laws of our country have
Jeen outraged, the name of the United
States disgraced, and the rights of every
,itizen menaced, and that it Els now the
luty of a law-respecting people to de-
nand of the Administration that 1t at
once and forever desist from such deeds
If despotism and crime. Enthusiasm"
Demand, quotha? The startling that
Mr.. Sterne saw in the cage said only, i
amt get out" 1t would have been more
manly to scream, 81 demand to get out
i proclaim on the housetops l will get
)ut."
Another of the New Jersey resolutions
throws an instructive light upon this
whole movement and its objects.
ResoLccd, That we renew our declaration
of attachment to the Union, pledging to
is friends, whenever found, our unwaver-
ng support, and to its enemies, in what
ever guise, our undying hostility, and that
Sod willing, we will stand by the Constl-
.ution and laws of our country, and un-
Ter their sacred shield will maintain and
defend our liberty and rights, "peacea-
BY if we can, forcibly if we must" LGreat
cheering.
This phrase, whatever found" implies
hat there are friends of the Union in the
and the resolution oblging-
y pledges to them the support OF the