Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1863-01-21
NO PEACE WITHOUT SEPARATION


make it the subject of emphatic and elaborate
arguments. The Democratic leaders in the
free States will therefore see that their pro-
gramme of peace ard reconstruction must end
either in effecting division of the Union or
in their own bitter humiliation. AS speci-
men of the temper with which the plans of
these leaders are received by the rebel news
papers, let the Richmond Dispatch of the 10th
o { January, commenting upon the New Jersey
speech of Hon. James Brooks, of New York,
answer to the demagogues and malcontents of
his school:
ssMr. Brooks appears to be in earnest in these
extravagant propositions, strange as it may
appear TO any man who has possession of his
senses TOR, upon the occasion OF presenting
them, he made long speech, and expressed
himself confident of their success. Are the
Northern people all natural born fools, or are
they only stricken with that judicial madness
which we are told the gods always inhIct upon
the victims OF their wrath preparatory TO their
ruin 2 Can they suppose that the South is as
galless and as lily livered as themselves, and
that they are willing, for mere considerations
OF interest, to forget the unheard of outrages
| under which they have suffered during this
war Can they believe them capable of so
soon burying in oblivion all that they have
eff the whole Yankee race should fall down
in the dust to- IN orrow, and pray US to be their
masters, we would spurn them even as slaves.
| Our only wish is to be separated from them
| finally and forever-never to see the face of
| one of them again-never to hear the voice of
| another Yankee on the south side of the Po-
| tomac or the north-to have traffic and no
intercourse of any description with them. We
are fighting for separation, and We will have
it, If 1t cost the life of every man in the con-
federate States.
''We are aware that many persons believe
that the party of which Brooks and Van Buren
are representatives,, desire and design to re-
store peace, and that at present they dare not
speak out their real sentiments, which are in
| favor of separation. We do not believe they
are in favor of any such thing.
'sThey would like peace on condition of our
| return to the Union, aud they are fools enough
| to believe that majority of the people in the
confederacy are in favor of reunion. They
| would like peace on these terms, because it
would restore the comm rrcial supremacy of
| the n orth, and especially of the city of New
York, which is gone forever il the Union be
not restored. But they are as bitterly oppos-
ed to separation as Lincoln himself, or any of
| the thieves and murderers who lead his ar
mics. In the event OF a refusal to return to
| the Union, they would, to man, unite in
| bounding on the assassins who are desolating
our country and numbering our people, as
| fiercey as they have ever been bounded on by
Beecher and Hale.
''They look only to their pockets when they
| preach of reconciliation and restoration. If
the same object could be effected by entirely
destroying the people of the Southern States,
| and they thought it as easy TO do, they would
| recommend II as the best of all possible poll
| cy. Let them be satisfied, however, President
| Davis expressed the sentiment of the entire
confederacy, in his speech tine other night,
1 han ha old IL 4
with nation of hyenas than with the detesta-
BILE and detested Yankee nation. Anything
but that English coioni zation, French vas
salage, Russian serfdom, ALL all are preferable
to any association with the Yankee
No better argument in favor of unity and
concert OF action among the people ot'the 10y
al States could be made, than that suggested
by the diabolical spirit and revengeful hatred
here displayed land by the stubborn and haugh-
ty department of the chief of this bloody re-
bellion against Christian and constitution
| al Government. Whether the Democratic
leaders will take counsel from this vitupera-
tive rejection of their proffers of peace, "a
mounts in fact, to little, when all patriotic
men will be onstrained to accept this new
manifestation of rebel contumacy as power
| fui inducement to hearty, Instant and aner-
getic cooperation in favor of the Administra-
tion of the Federal Government. There is.
In truth, but one available path to a perma-
nent and lasting settlement, and that is the
crimson path of war.
| Remembering that this civil conflict has IN
no sense been the work of the loyal people,
out has been long prepared for and deliberate
| ~ fomented by the Shareholders themselves,
what intelligent citizen will not contemplate
with indignation and scorn the contemptuous
and despotic tone of those who falsely accuse
| the free States of atrocities of which they
themselves are alone guilty, and insolently
insist that they will only agree to peace on
conditions degrading to the North and the
Northwest-conditions certain to result in thu,
creation and consolidation of a slave empire
on the one hand, and in the division and down
fall of the mighty free ths on the
| other?
If, then, we would avoid these double and
indescribable calamities, we must act togeth-
er as one man, sink all differences forever out
of sight, close around the Executive with
hearts fired with patriotism, and fight for our
freedom to the bitter end. It is said by some
that one object of the Democratic leaders is to
secure unity among the people of the loyal
States. by proposing peace to the rebels, and
when this is rejected, to throw off the cloak
of conciliation, and to make war in bloody
earnest. But who desires to secure unity of
action by the new and monstrous method of
national degradation We know from a thou
sand sources that the traitors in arms will not