The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-07-04
tflisrcllollcou5.
What the Rebels Think of Peace
and its Advocates in the North.

ana ITS Advocates IN the North.
The Rlchmoud Enquirer of June 18th
holds the following language in reference
~ the peace which our Northern SYM
pathzcrs with treason are advocating so
Justify aud 50 lord!y. 1t will be seen
! that the Rebels understand the motive
aud appreciate the efforts of these men
at their full value, viz. =, contempt:
. TWO YEARS HENCE.
In two years, AS many persons hope,
we may possibly have eace--tIat is,
always provided we continue to repulse
and defeat the invading enemy. The
| Yankee Democracy is certainly rous.
ing itself, aud preparing for new rug
gle TAT the ballot box) in the cause of
the "spoils," or, as they call it, the
cause Of Constitutional Liberty. Those
Democrats are evidently lightning to
raise a peace pla form for their mex:
Presidential elec ion : and if they have
the good luck to be helped on and sus-
tanned By more and more serious disas-
tiers of the Yankee army in the field,
! there is no doubt that the present de-
vourcrs of the said spoils at Washing on
may soon be so discrcdited and decricd
that our enemy's country would be ripe
for such peaceful ballo-box revolution.
| 1t is sincerely % DC hoped that these
earnest champions of constitu ional free
dom will be helped on and sustained in
the manner they require, namely, by
continued and severe rcvcrscs in the
! field; and it is the first and mos+ urgent
! duty OF our coun rymcn so to hcl p and
sustain that Democratic part. 1t is
nothing to us which of their factions may
devour their "spoils - just as II tie
docs it signify to US whether they re-
cover or do not recover that cons uton-
al liberty which they so wantonly threw
away i'll the mad rurSui; Of Southern
conquest aud plumber. But it is of the
nnos importance TO rs to aid in stnu
Iatng dIshiiec'lon amongl ankecs against
their own Government, and in dcmoral-
izing and d>lntegra,ing society in that
God-abandoneI country. We can do
this only in one way, namely by hrash.
ing their armies and carrying the war to
their own ircSides. Then, indeed, con-
scicntious cons itutional principles will
hold sway; PEACE platforms will look
Il tractlve arbitrary arrests Will become
odiorS. and habcas corpus be quoted a:
premium. This is the only way we
can help them. In this sense, and to
| this cxtcn those Democrats are trulJ
our allies, and we shall endcavor to do
our duty by them.
But they evidently look for other and
further help at our hands, and of quite IA
different sort. No doubt they are
pleased for the present, with the efficient
aid which the Confederate army is afford
ing Them. Chacellorvile was God
send % them, and the tremendous re-
pulse at Pori Hudson is quite a plank
in their platform. Yet they understand
very well hat no matter how soundIy
their armies may be happily beaten no
mat er how completely Lincolu's pre-
sent war qoicy may be condemned by
its results. yet all this will not be
enough to enable the unterrifcd Democ-
racy TO clutch the "sroils," or, as they
phrase it, to restore the Constitution of
their fathers. This. of itself would
never give them Peace Democrat Pre-
sident and CabincI i. would only re-
sui: in another Abolitlonist Adminstra-
ton, with new Secretary of War, and
a new CommandcrinC Chief, ard Il slight
y different programme for "crushing the
Rebellion" Those Black Republicans
are in power at er long waiting, pining,
/ inf -, ia .,,lJ .h.l, . a.,
position +; and hey have now the numer-
zeal prcponderance So decidedly, that
they both can and will hold on to the
Office with a clutch like death. The
Democrats can do absolutely nothing
! wi'hou "the SOUTH" as they persist in
terning these Confederate States aud
they canno; bring themselves to admi
the though. that we would refuse TO
unite with them las alas . We used to
d") i'll II grand Universal Presidential
: Campaign, for a Democratic President,
with Peace platform, and the "Consti-
tuition as i is" In fac, this whole two
years war, and the two years more war
which has yet to DC gore through, is
itself, in their eyes, only Presidential
campaign, only somewhat more vivacious
than ordinary.
This explains the Vallandigbam Peace
Meetings in New York and New Jersey
and the "manly dcclara ions " of MIR.
floratio Seymour and other patriots.-
DO not let us forget says Fernando
Wood, wrl ing to the Philadelphia meet
ing, " that those who perpctrate such
GU RACES as the arrest and punishment of
Mr.. Vallandigham, do so as necessary
war measures. Let US, therefore. strike
a. the cause, and declare for peace and
against the ,cnr."
This would sound very we'll if the
said "dcclaring for peace" could have
any effect whatever in bringing about
peace. If a man falling from a tower
could arrest his fall by declaring against
it, then the declarations of Democrats
against the war might be of same avail.
AS it is, they resemble that emphatic
pronounccmen of Mr.. Washington Hunt:
" Let it be proclaimed upon The house.
tops that no citizen of New York shall
be arrested without process of law
There is no use in bawing from the
housc-tops what everybody knows to be
nonsense. Or this resolution of the
New jersey meeting:
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