New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-13

minished Journals OF the ooutn cnnnos roiuso
on account of its length to copy it-and
ths Rebellion will have received mortal
blow. The hungry, half.clad, Poor Whites
who are now markedly forced into the Rebel
armie, BY tho mounted rufians who prowl
over tho country, Selling every one who can
carry o musket and hurrying him to the
camps. will band together, as lately in North
Eastern Georgia, and as formerly in East
Tennessee and Western North Carolina, and
refuse to be longer driven like sheep to
slauobter. They will upset the hidcous Rich
mopd dcspotism now sickening the air with the
stencil of human blood, and replace it BY
leaders eager for Union and Peace. We be.
lievo this the golden moment for such an ap'
peal, and that no opportunity for making it
should be suffered to pass unimproved.
The elder Napoleon had great faults, even In
his better days; but he always made war un'
der cloud Of professions Of anxiety for peace.
and he seldom failed to follow up decided
victory by proAers Of more favorable terms Of
accommodation than his vanquished enemy had
right to expect. Had he been a. wise in
this respect in 1913 as he was ten to sixteen
years earlier, he might have died on Emperor
in Paris, not q prisoner in exile. His earlier
triumphs live for examples, his later errors for
admonitions to succeeding statesmen.
Tho above was already in type when the
correspondence between our Government and
that of France, which We print elsewhere,
was received. The proposal by France, it will
be seen, of o Congress Of Conference between
the United States and "the authorities which
may represent the States Of the South" is
made by NJ. Drouyn do Lhuys in q note to
NJ MERCER, and this was presented in
q personal interview by N. MERCER
to the Secretary of State. Reciprocal COM
plants" says the French Minister, would be
examined into of this meeting" The North
and the South would seek out by these de-
| lberatiops whether tho interests Of the two
sections are defnitively incurable, whether
separation is an extreme which can no longer
be avoided" or whether the ties and
memories that have united them are
"not more powerful than the causes
which have pleced arms in the hands Of The
two populations" Or. in other words, &C.
cording to Mr.. Dsyton's understanding Of TIE
proposition, the Commissioners appointed were
"to treat with the South for peace and for
the Union if possible; if not possible, for such
terms Of separation as may eventually bs
agreed upon" Mr. Seward replies at length
I in a dispatch TO Mr. Dayton, dated the 9th inst.
He enters at length upon discussion Of tie
proposition, and considering it in the light IL
which it is represented By Mr. Dayton, rejects
i. on the ground that this Government can en-
tertain no pro posi.ion for dissolution of thu
Union, which be holds would be indignantly
rejected by the people, that the insurgeni
chief. would reject any offer Of peace On any
other terms, tina! with such chiefs We are bound
10 hold no conference, and that finally in the
United States Congress there exist, :lready 4
constitutional forum for debates between III,
alieuated parties, having advantages over any
other that could be organized. The hour al
which these important dispatches reach nj
renders comment, for today, impossible.