The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-01-29
SOss: ctEsiEg for Peace Hen.

concerning Peace. However much such
a consummation may be wished for, the
end seems long way of as yet. At
| least we must Judge 50 from the general
tone of the Southern newspapers, which
continue to breathe out threateniues, and
/ slaughter, and defiance against the entire
/ Yankee race. Nothing short OF hard
I knocks will ever reduce the Traitors to a
permanent peace establishment''--as the
villainous Vailandigaam would say.
Those Northern dough-face friends of
! Southern Secession who put in the larger
portion of their time in bawling Compro-
mise and Reconstruction will be Gelig GIFTED
at the estimate placed upon their efforts
/ by the Richmond Inquirer. Read what
that amiable sheet promulgates in the
! premises:
"Thcy hope still to chain Us, by some
! specious compromise, to the corpse OF the
! old l Mon, or, at least, to gain some adyan-
/ tage by determining boundary aud com
mercal relations. 1t would be fiue
thing for them truly to have the South
agree to meet them in a convention which
should recognize the Union as unbrokcn,
and look to its perpetuatioD. On this
| head, however, they may as well know the
truth. On no terms whatever will the
| South consent to a political association
with them.
"There is no concession which they can
grant, or which human Imagination can
frame, which could render the idea aught
but intolerable and revolving to the South
ern mind We separated from them be-
cause they sought to put on us a brand OF
social and political inteIiority. We would
not reunite with them If they would, one
and ali, consentto occupy the same position
of degradation which they aimed 10 rivet
on Us. We would not consent to hold
the Northern States even as provinces. =
On this subject there Is hardly a ripple
upon the surface of Southern sentiment
This was the feeling and the purpose,
fixed and unalterable, of the South at q
time when all was gloom and disaster
when Roanoke, Donclson and New Orleans
had surrendered to the foe-and it seemed
as if Providence had decreed to test to the
uttermost the fortitude Of our people
But now, when heaven has vouchsafed
TO Us SO many crowning victories, when
the Independence of the South is au
accomplished fact, aud liberty fairly won,
the suggestions that the reward of all the
sacrifices and suferings Of cur people is to
be basely discarded for a conneXion with
Yankees, is not endurable, even as jest.
"W hen the North wants peace she can
obtain it BIZ recognizing the independence
OF the Southern States, and yielding the
terms which justice demands. 1ier proper
mode to secure this result, SO desirable to
her, would be at once to withdraw her
armies from Southern soil and send her
commissioners to this capitol. Not even
to bring about an honorable peace, can the
South make the slightest advance to the
North. That was wisely aud humaneiy
done by the Confederate Government
before the war but now any step in this
direction, however trivial, will be sure to
be misinterprctci by our enemies, and
would only tend to prolong the war.
alt would be beneath the di gnity Of the
Confederate Government TO take any
notice of the New-Y ork meeting until the
sentiment of which it is an Indication
shall ripen into sincere desire for peace,
and come clothed with the authority Of
the United States, or some Of the North
crn States, acting independently, to make
proposals on a basis OF Southern indepen-
dcncc as a fact accom- plished. All propo
sitions which ignore either cur established
independence or the only channels Of
foreign intercourse appointed by the
Confederate Constitution, can only meet
with silent contempt"
The Richmond Dispatch, Of January
10th, in discussing the peace propositions
of Mr. Brooks, of New York-a de'ec-
table doughface, Of the Seymour stripe,
who wants National Convention and u
Compromise Union-says:
mir Brooks appears to be in earnest in
these extravaganza propositions, strange as
it may appear to any man who has posses
sion of his senses for, upon the occasion
of presenting them, he made a long speech.
and expressed himself confident of their
success 4 re 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 vic
Tins of their wrath preparatory to their
ruin? Can they suppose that the South
Is as galess and lily livercd as themselves,
and that they are willing, for mere consid
erations Of interest, to forget the unheard-
of outraees under which they have sufere'i
during this war; Can they believe them
capable Of so soon buryihg i'll oblivion all
that they have done and all that tFey have
suffered
"!f the whole Yankee race should fall
down in the dust to morrow and pray Us