The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-07-07

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The Contempt I'm which the Reb
els Hold Peace Sncaks.
We take the following remarkable arlicl
from the Richmond Enquirer Of June l2, Il
which the whole tribe of Peace Snsaks, VIII
are endeavoring to embarrass the Government
and thus give aid and comfort to the Rebels
are brought under the old slave drivers lash
| 1s,lO TWO YEARS nENcE. Jol aI
In two years, many persons hope, we maj
possibly have peace-that is, always provide'
we continue to repulse and defeat the invad
ing enemy. The Yankee Democracy" i
certainly rousing itself and preparing for
new, struggle (at the ballot. box) in the grea
cause of The spoils," or as they call il, th'
cause of Constitutional Liberty. Those Dem
ocrats are evidently beginning to raise Z
Peace platform for the neat Presidential slec.
ton: and il they have the good luck to b.
helped on and sustained by more and more
serious disasters of the Yankee army in field,
there is 30 doubt that tho present devourer,
of the said syoils at Washington may soon bt
SO discredited and decried that our enemy's
country would bo ripe for such peaceful ballet.
box revolution. .'t'
1t is sincerely hoped that those earnest
helped on and sustained in the manner they
equire--namely, by continued and severe re-
verses in the field; and it is the first ard 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
"spoils," just as little does it signify to US
whether they recover or do not recover that
constitutional liberty which they so wantonly
threw away in the mad pursuit of Southern
conquest and plunder. But I IS ofthe ut
most importance to as to aid IN stimulating
disscfeetion among Yankees against their
oDn Government, and ia deasordlizing aud
country. Wo can do this only in one way
namely, by thrashing their armies and car
rying tbe war to their own fresides Then,
indeed, conciencious constitutional principles
arrests will become odous, and habeas corpus
be quoted at premium. This is the only
way we can help them. In this sense, and
to th,s ertent, those Democrats are truly our
aliens, and zoe shall endeauor to do our duty
by them. NN N.
But they evidently look fr other and fur.
ther help at our hands, and of quite different
sort. No doubt they are pleased for the
present with the efficient aid which the Con-
federate army is affording them. Chancell-
orsville was Col send TO them, and the tre
menduous repulse at Port Hudson is quite a
plank in their platform. Yet they understand
very well that no matter how soundIy their
armies may be happily beaten; no matter
how completely Lincou's present war policy
may be condemned by its results, yet all this
will not be enough TO enable the untsrJfed
Democracy to clutch the "sp0ils" as
they phrase il, to restore the Constitution Of
their fathers. This, Of itself would never
give them Peace Demt crat President and
Cabinet; it would only result in arother Alb.
olitionist administration, with new Secretary
Of War, and new Commander. 10. Chief and a
slightly different programe for " crushing tue
rebellion" Those Black Republicans are in
power; after loug waiting, prating, intriguing
in the cold shade Of the opposition; and they
have now the numerical preponderouce SO ds'
cidedly that they both can and will hold on
to the Office with a clutch like death. The
Democrats can do absolutely nothing without
"tbe South" as they persist in terining these
Confederate States; and they cannot bring
themselves TO admit the thought that zoe soould
refuse to unite Nth them (as alas! we used
to do) in grand Universal Presidential
edmpaign, for Democrat President, Nth a
Peace platform, and the " Constitution as ii
is." 10 fact, this whole two years war, and
A ba nh, oh 10 ha
gone through. is itself, in their eyes, only
Presidential campaign, only somewhat more
vivacious than ordinary.
This explains the Va.landigham Peace
Meetings in New York and New Jersey; aud
the "manly declarations" Of Mr.. Horatio
Seymour and other patriots. Z" Do not let
us forget" says Fernando Wood, writing to
the Philadelphia meeting, :" that those who
perpetrate such outrages as tho arrest and
Punishment of Mr.. Vallandigham, do SO as
necessary war measures. Let us, therefore,
strike at the cause, and declare for peace and
against the w1r."
This would sound very we'll il the said
" declaring for peace" could have any effect
whatever in bringing about peace. If a man
falling from 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 resemble that emphatic
prououncement Of Mr.. Washington Hunt
"Let it be proclaimed ,pon the housetops,
that no citizen Of New York shall be arrested
without process of law" There is no use in
bawlipg from the housetops what ever ybody
knows to be nonsense. Or this resolution Of
the New Jersey meeting:
Resolved, That in tho illegal seizure and
Punishment Of the Hon. G. L. Vallandigham
the laws Of our country have been outra led
the name of the United States disgraced, and
the rights of every citizen menaced, and that
Il is now the duty Of law respecting people
to demand Of the Administration that it at
once and forever desist from such deeds Of
despotism and crime. Enthusiasm.
Demand quothai The starting that Mr..
Stearn saw in the cage, said only ~ can't get
out" II would have been moro manly to
scream, "I demand to get out proclaim on
the house tops that ,0iu get out" .o +
Another of the New Jersey resolutions
throws and instructive light uron this whole
movement, and its objects.
Resolved, That We renew our declaration
of attachment 10 the Union, pledging TO its