Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-03-10
The Peace Programme.

New York City, not being able to deliver speech
on national affairs 10 Congress, near the e'oieo .
the session got leave to print one, IN The course
0. which the Washington correspondent Of the .
New York Uor" reports BIN as advocating The
following views;
"Were he certain that ina military sense this
war would prove successful, nevertheless be would
oppose Il, for with the destruction Of Increasing
pove, If the South would vanish every hope OF
their existence as cqulI and contenled members
If one household.
ain bis view this wlr, nomnlly iJr tn Union,
had been waged against il. With this oeIleh
rather than proong it he would concade separa'
zion as the only means Of 40 ultimate reunion lp'
90 ,aCh principles a3 q tIae republican lol.d en-
terrain.
"When every conciliat1ry measure shall have
been resored to in vain when negotiations Snail
have been exhausted when the purpose OF the
southern people TO abstain from political comp1n-
ionship with vs. shah have been demonstrated asa
fixed and rreyocable fact, and not the passionate
resolve Of heated bood-lhen, as n cessily USE
ess to struggle against, he should not only coun'
sci but urge separation
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datiou rested in a calm and dieplssou4le appN
10 the Judgment aud better feelings OF the oonter r
ding parties. With such convictions, and baIey
M that every hour Of h0stiIities tended to our
further enlargement, be had never voted doll al
for the var.
a., legislator, as a citizen, and as man, he
camed to be ao.o'ed from all par, cpalon ~
this, as he charcterlles Il, mufde ods STRIFE
With all hi, humble abii.lies he had endenyored
TO arrest n. lie would slil endeayor, and II in
j vain, lct bis efforts attest before God and man
bat be vas unstaned vitl the blood Of bis coaa-
lymenP
"From u.s." be says, "beng ma erialIy The
stronger party, the proposition for an armstes
can come with good gacr. Let wise and just
and good men from all the states assemble N con-
yenliou. II then no honorable peace can be se'
cured bis filth in human nature viii have passed
+ away"
John McKcon, also Democrat Of New York
T City, made an elaborate argument 10 favor Of an
armi,cc, and Cancellation, and peace, before The
= Uni Democratic Association Of that city Tues
day evening, il the course Of which he srcpor'ed
T as saying
e ave should at once endclyor to recover oui
o lost brethren, not by arms, but by eudeayoB lC
T. cJncIlnle them back again. (Appause) li'
was for an armisce lie was for convention U
+ the States, whereby e stop the var and remedy
the condition Of things under which we Iabur. J
u the policy OF the administration is carried out TIE
g Union is lrreyoclby lost lie WAS anxious i'
save the Union, and he believed that 1t could be
y saved by little sacrifice
The larger part Of this speech was devoted to
historical parable, in which the Southern traitor
were compared to our revolutionary father. slrug
Cling for their liberty and the rights Of man, anC
y the Northern peace men, Ike McKeon, were mod
esty compared to Burke and Fox, and Erkne
The Speaker had not quite the courage to com
pete the parallel, but viii undoubtedly, in hi.
next discourse, hycrably mention jeff Davis a,
The antelope Of Washington.
Our purpose in these quotations is to show how
dslsye and dishonest has been all the talk o.
these politicians heretofore, when speaking Of ",hC
Constitution as it Is" Both Of these co sperhcld,
are for convention Of States, to agree upon some
settlement Of the war and for Cancellation and
compromise, This means a convention Of States
for the purpose Of changing he Constitution.
Aud this is the inevitable resul, Of all attempts to
appeasc the South. The work Of conclluion
must commence with altering the Constitution.
The milde,t rebel will listen to nothing else until
compelled to. And an armistcc and conyen'
tioa would have for it, sole object change in our
organic law. We commend the contemplation Of
THIS phase Of The Programme Of the pelca-and-lrm-
i,lcencn to those Who have adopted for Their
motto, "he Institution as il i, and the Union
a, It vas In their violent opposition to ,hc
government they have already reached The point
where they boldly advocate change in our Con
sti.uton and a disruption Of ,ne Union. There is
but one step more ~ their downward course, and
TINT is going over bodily, as they Alrelay have ID
soul, 10 the rebels and We hope thi, last steI
may not be long delayed.