The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-07-18
Gun,orous.
Lees Peace" Movement.

Lees " Peaceo Movement.
The following is an editorial article nub.
lished in the Richmond Inquirer Of the 9Th
inst:
-, General Lee. our High Commissioner and
| flchlpotentlary for conclusion of a peace -
proceeding well enough with his beneGccnt
mission. His Olive Branch is blossomng
and Will bear wholesome fruit. His nero.
tiation5, entered upon so auspiciously. To
orihg about that sweet and tender reconcil.
iation which Is now surely coming, have
already advanced long stride and inter
fright and dismay, the only frame of mind
IN which thoughts of peace can soften the
Yankee nature, now smile graciously unon
the deluge OF blood, and prepare the way
Tor the DOVE to bring her green spray into
our ARK. Johnston, and the other Peace
commissioners in the Southwest, are also
diilsent IN their mission of love. Weary
eyes, long dimmcd by the red haze of slauph
ter, begin, indeed, to see at last the dawH If
a glorious day, and the nation will soon
awake from that spectre haunted night of
blood. 'sA' VI
Isace was always impossible to us, save
on me terms OF con1ucring it and conquer
ing II IN the encmy's country. After LONG
endurance, hesitation and delay, that truth
came to be recognized at length. The mol.
ICY OF standing always on the defensive.
leaving tive enemy free to dart in upon onr
country at thousand unprotected points,
ana ravage our people at discretion, waiting
to see how much of our sutferings the YAM
kee could find in his heart to endure, was
not found to answer there seemed no Inn
II, III that direction, to his endurance. nor
10 ours and the war, on that system, must
have lasted forty years. IF peace had ever
come to us by that method, it must have
been peace altogether to our disadvan
tage: we should have held no hostile cities
nor nj, strong places to give in exchange for
those towns and forts now in the enemy's
hands; ard their could have been no motive
tor our enemies to make us gratuitous sur.
render and restitution. VIA. sort nj
peace, then, what SORT of independence,
would that have been, with so MANY of our
harbors closed up by the grnning batteries
OF Jealous and greedy foe! BY that way
there was no real chance of peace at ali,
LOT the Contederacy never, never could have |
laia down their arms, while foot of their |
them. e"'''''
General Lees magnificent victory at Get,
tysburg has, very doubtless, cost us verv
dear as many of us will know too weil
when the sad details come in. At prcscnt
we have only the grand and glorious result.
the greatest army of the Yankee nation
swept away, trampled under foot and all but
annlhllated upon its own soil the best mart
OF pennsylvania laid under contribution to
sustain our army, and, in some small meas
ure make good our heavy losses the second
CITY on the continent open to our armies
and already reckoning on the number of mil
mons 1t must pay to ransom it from pilanc
ahu conhagration our own city of Balti,
more waiting its deliverancc with a passion
ate but secret joy; and Washington, that
ouI den OF thieves, expecting the vengeance
Of Heaven for the hideous crimes thai have
oeen done within its walls.
In Phi adelphia, how the Quakers ouake
his day! In Washington, how the whole
brood OF Lincoln and his rascal ministers
urn pale-how their knees smite together
IS they hear atar off the roar of their Grand
Army OF the Potomac rolled back in bloody
out and dlsmay, and see flashing through
heir guilty dreams the avengine bayonets
u those they dared to call Rebels ?" Ha,
Ices their monstrous crimes weigh heavy
IN their souls to-day Mingling with the
'neers that greeted their sweet peroratious
II their Fourth of July "orators of the
lay, do their ears hear the wall of the
homeless and the fatherless whose houses ,
hey nave lam in ashes, whose pride and
trength they have laid low in the graves of
hundred battle fields? Yes, they begin In
eel that they were in the wrong that there
ras some mistake somewhere and for tbe
lrst time they pray for peace.
But this is only their first lesson. II is
that our Peace Commissioners will
aye yet several other such to administer,
efore the enemy shall be perfectly satisfied
nat there is no possible peace for him until
c wllhdraws every soldier from the soil of I
very, State, including Missouri, Kentucky,
laryiand and Delaware, and yield up to
heir lawful owners every town and foit he y
olds all around our orders. Cincinnati
'r example, would, we are assured, burn
ELL. 1t is the enlightened metropolis of
rychnlne whisky, the Queen city of fat
ork, peopled by as God. abandoned sons of
ankees as ever killed a hog. Our troops
ave now got taste Of Northern yiand,.
nd their fine, healthy appetite grows bv Nj
hat it feeds on. Ohio also has silver and
old, and towns to ransom, and fertile plains
sweep of fiocks and herds. AS they uiU
ave war, let them have their fill of it, and a,
Its highest perfection and widest devel.
pement. SO, and not otherwise, will
eace spread her white wings, and cover all cl
le land as the waters ever the sea, IL
We are only at the beginning of our peace n,
ovement, and other such diplomatic pro. "
cols as that at Gettysburg will yet have to "t
formulated before the end comes. We
Ill with JOY the Inauguration of the new
a, the opening of the true path to freedom
I'd to peace. We are prouder than ever of
lr heroic army and of its ilustrious Gen.
al, OF whom it is the highest praise to say 7
at ne is worthy of the troops he leads;
mer in the belief that peace will come to e,
only in one way-by the edge of the d,
'ord. SC
10
The Battle of GETTYSBURG.