The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-02-17

existing war, and have been at all time
ready 10 participate in such arrangement
as would be best suited to bring it to
3 close, in manner consistent with thei
| own safety and honor, they could no
yield their consent to an armistice of
single day or hour, so long as the incen
diary proclamation of the atrocious mon
ster now bearing rule in Washington
eIly shall rep2in ,unreyoked nor @ souls
basis of a formal and unconditional rec
ogntion of THEN independence.
3. Whenever the friends Of peace in
the North shall grow strong enough tc
constrain Abraham Lincoln and his fla
gitous cabinet to withdraw said proclaim
alton, and propose an armistice upon the
basis aforesaid, the government of the
confederate states will be ready 10 accede
to said proposition of armistice with a
view to the settlement of all existing
difficulties.
4. Should peace be at any time
brought about, the confederate states OF
America would freely consent 10 the for
nation of a just and mutually advania-
geous commercial treaty with all the
states now constituting the United States,
except New England those people,
and in whose ignoble love Of gold and
brulifying ianalicism, This disgrace( (uI
war has mainly originated in considera-
uon OF which fact the people OF the con,
lederate states Of America are firmly and
deliberately resolved to have no inter-
course whatever hereafter, either direct
or indirect, political commercial or sUci.
al, under any circumstances which could
! be possibly imagined to exist, with said
states of New England or the people
therein resident
5. The government Of tie confederate
states, in consideration OF the change in
public sentiment which has occurred in
several of the northern states, wherein
! political elections have been recently
held-sympathizing most kindly with
/ those by whose manly exertlons that
change has been brought about would
be willing to conclude a just and honor
able peace with any one or more Of said
states who (renouncing all political con
nections with New England) may be
found willing to stipulate for desisting at
once from the further prosecution Of the
war agains, the South, and in such case
! the government of the confederate states
/ would be will to enter into a league,
offensive and defensive, with the states
thus desisting OF permanent and en-
during character.
6. Tie government OF The confederate
states IS now willing, as il has heretofore
+ repeatedly avowed itself to be, whenever
i the states bordering upon the Mississippi
# river, OF any of them, shall have declar-
ed their inclination 70 withdraw from the
further prosecution of war upon the
South (which could it be successful,
would only have the effect of destroying
! their own best marheD, TO guarantee 10
] them, in the most eifectual and satisfacto.
ry manner, the peaceful and unnterrupt-
ed navigation OF the said Mississippi riy-
er and lis tributaries, and 10 open to
them at once the markets Of the South,
greatly enhanced in value TO them as
they would be by the permanent exclus-
ION OF al articles Of New England growih h
or manufacture.
1 7. Tie course of practical neutrality
in regard 70 the pending war heretofore
pursued hv the states and territories west
Of the Rocky mountains has afforded the
highest qualification TO the people OF the
confederate states of America and il i.
hoped that the day is not far distant
when said states aud territories, consult
ing their own obvious safety and future
welfare, will withdraw from all political
couuec,ionWil a government which has
heretofore, been source Of continual
oppression 10 them and when said states
and territories. asserting their separate
/ independence, shall appropriate to them.
selves the manifold advantages sure tc
result from such a movement. among
which my be reckoned, lst. Relief from
grievous and exhausting tariff regula
tions now being rig;dly enforced. cd
Relief from all the dscredit resulting
inevitably from The prosecution of lht
preaent unjust and unauthorized war
Sd. Relief from the pressure of despot.
: ism the most heardess and atrocious ever
vet established. 4lh. Relief from the
crushing weight Of taxation unayojdably
growing out of the war 5,h The ex.
elusive enjoyment Of all the rich mineral
lands stretching along the slope of the
Pacific. 9th. Free trade with all the
nations Of the earth, and future mari
time growth and power that has no par.
allel ;and lastly. q monopoly Of the trade
Of the Pacific ocean.
s. That the President be respectfully
requested, ii he shall approve these reso
! luuons. to cause them to be promulgated
ana transmitted TO the states OF the North
by such means as he shall deem mos
judicious and that he accompany them
If he shall think il advisable, with sucf
an address or proclamation, expository
Of the matters embodied therein. as ht
shall Judge most suitable and proper,
The peace democrats now knowcn wha
} terms they can have an armisliee, aul
what are n few Of the humilia,ions tc
which they must assent 20 oblain peace
Whoever at the North dares talk abou
an arp,ietit,a and a national nsarn ennyan.