The independent. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Kan.) 1860-1874, 1863-07-18
Rebel Estimate Of Peace Men.

Rebel Estimate Of Peace Men.
The Richmond Enquirer OF Jun,
leth. contains the following scathin.
article on the peace Party" of III,
North:
TWO YEARS HENCE.
In two years. as many persons hope
We may possibly have peace-,hat is
always provided we continue to rcpuls,
and defeat the invading enemy. The
Yankee "Democracy' Is certainly rous
ing itself. aud preparing for new
struggle "a; the ballot box) in the grea
cause Of the "spoiis. or,as they call it
the cause Of Constitutional Liberty
Those Democrats are evidently begin.
ming TO raise Peace platform for III.
nert Presidential election; and il they
have the good luck to be helped on ant
sustained by more aud more scriou,
disasters of the Yankee army in the
field. there is no doubt that the present
devourers of the spoil at Washington
may soon be SO discredited and decried
,hst our enemy country would bs rips
for such peaceful! balIot-box revolution
II is sincerely TO be hoped that those
earnes, champions OF constitutional free.
dom will be belped'on and sustained in
the manner ihey require-nsmely. by
continued aud severe reverses in the
field; and it is the first and most urgen,
dsty OF our counlrymes.. 50 10 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 10 us whether they re
cover or do not recover the consiitu-
tional liberty which they 30 wantonly
threw away in the mad pursuit ol
Southern conques. and plunder. Bu,
it is Of the utmost importance 10 us to
aid in stimulating disatfection among
Yankees against their own Government,
and in demoralizing and disintee rating
society in thst God abandoned country.
We can do this only in one way-name.
ly. by thrashing their armies and carry
ing the war TO their own firesides.
Then. indeed, conscientious constitu-
lional principles will hold sway: peace
platforms will look attractive; arbitrary
arrests will become odious, and haJeds
corpus be quoted at premium. This
is tie only way We can help them. In
this sense, and TO this extent, those
Democrats are truly our allies. and we
shall endesvor to do our duty by them.
But they evidently look for other and
further help at our hands and of quite
different sort. No doubt they are
pleased for the present. with the efficient
aid which the Confederate army is
affording them. Charlottesville was
Godsend to them, and the tremendous
repulse at Port Hudson is quite plank
in their platform. Yet they under
stand very well that no matter how
soundly their armies may be happily
beaten, no matter how completely Lin
coln's preeent war policy may be con
denmed by it's results, yet all this will
not be enough to enable the unlerrified
Democracy 10 clutch the "spoils." OF,
as they phrase it. to restore the Con-
sti,ution of their fathers. This, Of it.
self, would never give them a Peace
Democrat President and Cabinet; il
would only result in another abolitionistI
administration, with new Secretary Of
War, and a new COMMANDMENTS Chief,
and slightly different programme for
crushing the rebellion" Those Black
Republicans are in power. after long
waiting. pining, intriguing in the cold
shade OF The opposition; and they have
now the numerical preponderance so
decidedly that they both can aud will
hold on 20 the Offices with clutch like
death. The Democrats can do abso-
lulely nothing without "the South" as
they persist in ,erming these Confeder-
ate States; and they cannot bring them
selves to admi. the thought that we
would refuse TO unite with them { as
alas !! We use to do) in grand Uni
versal Presidential campaign. for a
Democratic President. with a Peace
platform. and the "Consti,ution as ii
u.s." In fact, this whole two years wal.
and the two years more war which has
yet to be gone through is. itself,in their
eyes, only Presidential campaign, on
ly somewhat more vivacious than ordi-
nary.
This explains the vallandigham Peace
meetings in New York and New Jersey,
and the ''manly declarations of Mr..
Horatio Seymour and other patriots.
"Do not let Us forget" says Fernando
Wood, writing 10 the Philadelphia
meeting. ''that those who perpeirate
such ousrages as the arrest and banish-
ment Of Mr.. vallandigham. do so as
necessary war measures. Let ~ there.
fore strike at the cause. and declare for
peace and against the rar.''
This would sound very well if the said
declaration for peace'' could have any
effect whatever in bringing about peace,