Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-04-23

According to the Richmond Enquirer ihis
generation is not to see the end Of this war It
says under the head Of "a Peace "-shouldn't It
have beeu War -
eve can see no prospect Of peace at an not
this year, nor next yesr; not at the end Of Lin
coln's presidential term, nor Of the next Every
body wishes f1r it, and longs and prays Tor it :;
everybody. both in the Federal States end In
the Confederate Yet let us not deceive Our-
telves-the peace which they long for at the
North, Is not the same peace which We pray for
here. Their peace means reconstruction ours
means separation. We can never make peace,
never. much as we desire it lesving in the enc
my's hands New Orleand, Kentucky, Maryland.
Missouri-Withous at least sDsuring 10 those
States the iull freedom to decide, uncontrolled
by the coercion Of foreign armies, whether they
viii sttach themselves to the Northern despOt-
ism or 10 the Southern league. We can never
make peace while one Southern fortress has the
hated hag Of the stars and stripes floating over
its walls, while one hostile ship presumes to
blockade a Southern barber. They caanot
make peace, giving up to rs our forts and bar
bors acknowledging the right Of secession in
the border States, snd admitting themselves
beaten aud diszrsced. Their " peace is. to
u, continual, eternal war; cur peace is to them
ruin and perdii0n. If there is 10 be peace
then, On whose terms shall It bo-thsirs or oursl
Neither. We sre to have war, not peace"
Gloomy prospect this, and well supported, IL
must be admitted, by column Of good and
plausible reasons Bot In the teeth of them all
we have faith, founded on a womsu's logic
(instinciivo feeing), that ths war is not % last
50 very long. We cannot say exactly, OK SEQ
clearly, how the white winged dove Is 10 come
but stiIl we believe she will come In an hOur
snd in a manner unlocked for and unexpected
We admit that peace viii be a death blow 10 the
Black Republican party, and that q myriad of
civil aud army officers, specalators in havoc and
military contractors arc interested in prolOug-
ing the carnival of blood. But Is Is not their
own blood in which sbey are iIsfhtking. Those
who do the fighting ere not participants ia ths
profits Of these spectators, and It would seem
reasonable to suppose that they would, Efser
swhe. get tired OF SO unequal a eopartuerahip.
Il the East is making money cut OF tho war, tho
West is starving on il. II peEce would break
the East, it would be the making of the West,
and the West is the stronger power Of the
two. Nor can the outside civilized world for
ever endure the priva ions and injuries Of this
bootless end exhausting contest We are yet 70
see also, whist is to be- the effect on fhe North
ern people, Of their final swaking TO the trush
Of the hOpeles9ness Of their contest for gubiu-
gstiou We have seen with what infinite pains
the Federal government and the press have la
bored 70 keep this hope alive They have sac
cceded, so fer, By deception aud falsehood
These must have tleir day. When they are end.
ed, and the scales fell from the Yankee eyes viii
they still persist in treading the path 60 more
bloodshed and deeper ruini HumEn experiences
is agsinst it Whenever they find it to their IN
teTest 70 stop the war, aud that win be the mo
mont they are convinced that the conquest Of
the South is impossible, they wiz stop it. We
have high hopes that the events Of The present
great campaign viii burn this conviction into
their hearts. A desperate war for defense may
Be long carried on; butt is against al history
and against mans nature 20 protrset hopeless
war Of aggression. In other words. even infu-
rated Yankees viii not spill thsir blood and ex-
haust their treasure for nothiag.-M0biis Rag
lister.