The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-09-25

rsgei, TO say that il will Come back. if ev
cry thing is forgiven it, and nothing inflctet
or exacfed f.4r $500 ~ +
Mr.. Lincoln, we say, might have flung
such proposal. even if it hsd come to bin
I we'll au ,henticated, through Q more trust
worthy channel than Woo 1, ioto the near
est rubbish hole, with sovereign centempt
tnt Mr. Lincoln has, at lie sst. two remarks J.
bic personal qualities; he is moro patisn
than Job himself in listning TO all sorssof ad
visors and backhsnied comfortsrs; while he
has not forgotten the lswyer-liks s.gachy
which allows 3 wiling ~itness {, run on
with his story until he is inexlricably invol-
we'd, and tripped up by the very threat be
is spinning Wood he likely thought both
fool enough ana rogue enough TO commit
SOME OF his accompli,ss il he should be al-
lowed to blab. and so Mr. Lincoln replied 10
his singular adir, IS. He answered v-rv
pert'nenly three things first. that he as
cribed no manner of Importance to Wood.
alleged iDtormation second. that if An am
nesiy was ali that the Southern people-sot
their leaders they might be assur
ed OF II as soon rs they lay down theiI
arms; but thirdly. that before any thing
could he don. or proclaimed he must be
put 10 possession ot the exact Information
which Wood pretended to have recei,e ed
Nothing could hav,- been more frank. ex-
plc' or genial tina, this reply Of the Presi
dent. He did not believe hat the insurg.
ents were prepared t. relinquish their stub
born struggle against the government. bnt
if they were, he was ready to stop The war
for the suppression of their revolt soon
as he could be satisfactorily assured Of that
iact. But until such assurance came he
most of course prosecute the var as active
ly and as efficiently as he could. Armies in
the field, some Of them hun .reds of miles
from home, and all OF them conducting the
most critical operations. are no. to be siop
ped at the cry of every individual who hap |
pens to pass. rho chooses TO take some |
shirt hung out 10 dry for hsg of trucs.-i
The cabinet tho council of war will re-
seive and consider ali such manifest atoms.
but the soldier. to accomplish his end, must
move straight on. like the cannon ball which T
s the symbol of his trade. H.
Nevertheless, Wood. in his rejoinder to
he Presidents reply, takes it 10, granted
that our armies are TO be hailed while he is
engaged in his cos,ive labor Of getting out
! plan OF peace. With duplcity which is
of him. he takes no notice Of
The Presidents offer - declare an amnesty
IS soon as the 'scts of the case should war
rant 1t; he produces not = single voucher
or even the shadow of an authority. which
Ihs President had ass ed, for his pretended
but he runs off into by ypocrt
cal expressions of sorrow that he has not
been lIsteLed to. cou led with insolent crit
cisms and solemn monitions of advice. -
Fne truth is. that Wood had no information
ither {" Trustworthy or truthful" no more
ban he might have extracted from soae
nch creature as George Saunders. IN one OF
" drunken cnnhdences. or any other eQ ual- /,
? enlightened habitue Of the New York !.
iotel. where "rebels mos, do congregats." !
he had possessed such information he
vou'd not have refused II To the urgent re
uest Of the President But it was q It pos
IDLE for him to possess such information.
scause he knows, as all the world knows,
hat :the leaders of the revolt" have new
y proposed. and do Cot now propose. to
come back into the Union on any terms
They could not entertain thought OF that
lind without incurring the instant and uni
'erssl contempt Of their followers whom
hey have mised Whatever others may
10. they must brave il out 10 the last, or he
orn to pieces by their own hounds. Even
,ae of the most m, ,derate of them, Alexsn
Ter II. Stephens. not a month Ago declared
hat reconstruction vas mol to be thought
If" and the more virulent are likely to be
'till more obstinate.
In short, this entire story of peace prop
'sitions emansting from The rebel leaders,
slready some eight months old, is base
md fimsy devise for the dec ption Of the
people. which. now that it is brought to tue
light. is seen TO have no more body in it
han the ghost at Wallack's.-N. T. Post.