Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-02-07

your army from the seeded States. Re
peace establishment. Declare absolute
free trade between the North and South
Buy and sell. Agree upon zollvercin
Recall your fleets. Break np your block
ade. Reduce your navy. Restore travel
Open up railroads. Rc.ostabish the tele.
graph. Reunite your express companies
No more Monitors and iron clads, but set
your friendly steames and steamships
again in motion. Visit the North aud
West. Visit the South. Exchange news
papers. Migrate. Intermarry Let
slavery alone. Hold elections at the ap-
pointed times. Let us choose new Presi.
dent in sixty four. And when the gospel
of peace sha have descended again from
heaven into their hearts, and the gospel
of abolition and of hate been expelled, let
your clergy and the churches meet again
in Christian intercourse, North and South.
Let the secret orders and voluntary
associations everywhere reunite as breth
res once more. In short give TO all the
natural and all the artificial causes which
impel us together. their fullest sway
Let time do his ofIire-drying tears dis
peling sorrows, mellowing passion, and
making herb and grass and tree to grow
again upon the hundred atle-felds of
this terrible war.
''But this is recognition 1t is not for
nal recognition, to which [ will not con
sent Recognition now, and attempted
permanent treaties about boundary, travel
ani trade, and partition of Territories
would end in war fiercer and more disas-
trous than before. Recognition is abso-
lutte disunion and not between the slave
and the free States but with Delaware
and Maryland as part of the North, and
Kentucky and Missouri part Of the West
But wherever the actual line, every evil
and mischief of disunion is impeled in it.
And for similar reasons, sir, woul not
at this time press hastily convention Of
the States. The men who would now
hold stats in such convention. would,
upon both sides, if both agreed to attend,
come together full OF the hate and bitter
ness inseparabe from civil war. No.
sir /; let passion have time to cool, and
years of desperate and most wicked pa
tience and industry 10 destroy or impair
the magnificent temple of this Union
Let us be content if, within three years,
we shall be able 10 restore it.
But certrinly what I propose is inform
al, practical recognition. And that is
precisely what exists to day, and has ex,
lNc lcG boG
Flags ct truce, exchange of prisoners, and
all your other observances of the laws,
forms, and courtcses of war are rccogni.
tion. Sir, does any man doubt to day
that there is confederate government at
Richmond and that it is a 'beligerent :?
Even the Secretary Of State has discover
ed it at last, though he has written ponder
GUS foIios Of polished hetoric to prove that
it is not. Will continual war, then, with
out extended and substantial success, make
the confed crate States any the less gov.
ernmGnt in factl
"But it confesses disunon.' Yes, just
as the surgeon, who sets your fractured
limb in splnts, in order that it may be
healed admits that it is broken. But the
Government will have failed to "crush out
the rebellion.' Sir, t has failed You
went TO war t. prove that we had Gov.
ernmcnt. With what result? TO the
people of the loyal States it has, in our
hands, been the Government Of King Stork
but to the Confederate States, Of King
Log. "But the rebellion will have til
umphed.' Better triumph to-day than
ten years hence. But l deny it. The
rebellion will at last be crushed out in the
only way III which it ever was possible
"But no one will be hung at the end of
war" Neither will there be, though the
war should last half q century, except by
the mob or the hand of arbitrary power
But really, sir, if there is to be no hang
ing, let this Administration, aud all who
have done its bidding everywhere, rejoice
and be exceeding glad
Aud now, sir, allow me a word upon
subject OF very great interest at this mo-
ment, aud most important it may be in its
influence upon the future-forcign medi
tatiou, | speak not of armed and hostile
Intervention, which | w.uld resist as long
as but one man was left to strike blow at
the invader But friendly meditation
the kindly offer Of an impartial Power to
stand as a dayoman between the contends
ing parties in this most bloody and ex-
hausting stri e--ought to be met in spirit
as cordial and ready as that in which it is
profcred, 1t would be churlish TO refuse.
Certainly, it is not consistent with the
former dignity of this Government to ask
for meditation; neither, sir. would it beft
its ancient magnauimity to reject it. As
proposed by the Emperor of France, l
would accept it at once Now is the au-
spicious moment 1t is the speediest, ca
siest, most graceful mode Of suspending
hostilities. LIT US hear no more of medi,
tation of cannon and the sword. The day
for all that has gone by, Let us be
statesmen at last Sir, give thanks that
some, al least, among the Republican par.
ty seem ready now to lift themselves up
to the height Of this great argument, and
to deal with it in the spirit of the patriots
and great men Of other countries and ages,
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