New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-20
DEMOCRACY-PEACE.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in announcing t

complete fout Of It's party in Ohio says;
The Republicans themselves are not m6ie elaicd nj
their victory than the Rebels. IL will still further
unite them and consolidate the power Of their GOV
Union JeiHR ne South and would divide the Concd
Republican victories crush out the Union son
mcnt at the South and put an end 90 oil division Of the
Rebels.
1t does seem 10 us that this language is used
| in reckless defiance Of notorious facts. year
and more ago, votes were solicited for the Dem
ocratic tickets, on the assumption tina, their sue
cess would lead 10 manifestations Of ~ Union
feeling at the SOUTH" and as the expert
ment had no, then been tried on any extensive
scale it was quite possible 10 believe that such
would be the result. The People gave weight
To the suggestion, and cast votes enough FOR the
Democratic ticket TO secure in the absence ofthe
Volunteers, their very general triumph. From
the Connecticut to the Mississippi, every loyal
State was carried By the Opposition. The
Rebels saw and hcard-they cxultcd over the
triumphs Of those whom they esteemed relative
~ their irends-but where were the evidences
of Union feeling at the SOUTH" The Demo
cratic victories" were duly for,hoomingi the
responsive "Union feeling at the South" was not.
Those Democratic victories" were hailed IN
that quarter as proof that the loyal States were
weary and sick Of the war. and ready 70 give up
the Union. Nor WAS II singular that this deduc.
ton should be made. since Lord Lyons, writing
to Earl Russell from this city, after some day.
OF intimate communion with our victorious
IN a,,,.tlar tut. Ia
ton TO their triumph. He never dreamed Of eK.
pec,ing the Rebel chiefs thercupon to
cvincc willingness 20 return 10 the Union on
any ,erns-far from il. The Democratic tn
umph was only significant 20 him of prevalent
disposition at the North TO acquicscc in disunion
as final and inevitable.
The overture from The loyal TO the Rebel
States was as plain AS acts could make IT.
" We have throttled and thrown The Black Re.
publicans: come back. and We'll upset the
Emancipation policy, kick out the Lincoln dy
nasty, and let you name your own terms OF re-
union" Yet the Rebels would nj see II
They would have no reunion on any icrins-hot
even Of their own making They would have
hi0hill'Ii ~ 'f'AN0f lt'A'i'h'' w aNf
alternative. They knew perfectly well that
they could restore the Democrats % power by
returning a. the Union and that "Coniisca'on,
Emancipation Subjugation," would thercupon
become idle scarc-crows. Yet they never
dreamed of coming back. They made no oyer
ture looking 10 that consummation. They have
never proposed or sought Peace even on the
basis Of the sfatu quo. They never offered to-
take 30 much Of the Union as chose Ia go with
them and leave the residue to u. ~ hayc talked
oi letting them go they have never offered
nor sought TO go, unless permitted Ia take
with them reluctant, struggling West VIZ.
gnia and East Tennessee, not To speak oi
MARYLAND, Kentucky and Missouri. All the
talk of submitting our differences 10 impartial
Arbitration has been had on this side of the
line: not a whisper Of IL has come from the
other. A stranger would naturally conclude,
from hearing what is said of Peace in the loyal
States and in Dixie respectively, that IRE had
been driven by stress OF war from half the terri
tory we claimed as peculiarly our Own--that n,
were hard-prcssed, ragged and furnishing No
one would conceive the actual state Of things
from reading what is said in the journals on one
side and OH the other on the subject Of Peace.
Can The Enquirer be justified, even to ITSELF III
putting forth such representations as we have
above quoted Its candidate, Vallandgham,
has just returned-no; not quite returned
from journey through the heart Of the Con-
federacy on his involuntary journey southwark.
On his way, he saw and conversed freely with
many leading Rebels. Now if those people pro-
posed or were inclined to return TO the Union in
case he and other Coppcrheads were elevated to
seats of power in the Government OF our Free
States, he is not the man to conceal the fact.
Its manifest advantage to his friends IN the can
vass would have secured its publicity. IL has
not been blazoncd, because it does not exist
Then why such glazing deception