The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-29
PEACE !!

Save our own terms, we can accept no peace
whatever and must fight till doomsday rath-
er than yield an iota of them, and our terms
are:
Recognition by the enemy of the indepen-
dence of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal of the Yankee forces from eve
ry foot of Confederate ground, including Ken
lucky and Missouri
Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from
Maryland until that State shall decide by a
free vote whether she shall remain in the old
Union or ask admission into the Confedera-
cy.
Consent on the part of the Federal Govern
ment to give up to the Confederacy its pro-
portion Of the navy as it stood at the time of
secession, or to pay for the same.
Yielding up Of all pretention on the part of
the Federal Government to that portion Of the
old territories which lies west of the Confede-
rate States. .t... ..
An equitable settlement on the basis Of our
absolute independence and equal rights of all
accounts of the public debt and public lands,
and the advantages accruing from foreign
| treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend comprise
the minimum Of what we must require before
we lay down our arms. That is to say, the
North must yield alive nothing. The whole
pretension of that country to prevent by force
the separation of the States must be abandon
ed, which will be equivalent to an avowal
that our enemies were wrong from the first,
and, of course, as they waged a causeless and
wicked war upon us, they ought in strict JUS
tice to be required, according to usage in such
cases, to reimburse to US the whole OF our ex-
lpenses and losses in the course of that war;
Whether this last proviso is to be insisted upon
or not, certain we are that we cannot have
any peace at all until we shall be in position
not only to demand and exact, but also to en-
force and collect, treasure for our own reim-
bursement out of the wealthy cities in the en-
emy's country. In other words, unless we
can destroy or scatter their armies, and break
up their Government, we can have no peace,
and, if we can do that, then we ought not on
ly to extort from them our own full terms and
ample acknowledgment of their wrong, but
also handsome indemnity for the trouble
and expense caused to US by their crime
Now, we are not yet in position to dictate
those terms to our enemies, with Rosecrans'
army still in the heart of our country, and
Meade still on Virginia soil Though it is too
soon to propose such conditions to them yet
it is important that we shouldkeep them plain
| ly before our own eyes as the only admlssa-
BILE basis of any conceivable peace. This well
| fixed in the Confederate mind, there will be
no more fearful looking for news from Europe,
as if that blessed peace were to come to us
over the sea, and not to be conquered on our
own ground. There Will be no more gaping
for hints of recognition and filling ofthe belly
with East wind no more distraction or diver
sion from the single momentous business Of
braclng up every nerve and sinew of the coun-
| try for battle. 1t is especially now at the
moment when great and perhaps decisive bat
ties are impending at two or three points, that
we think it most essential to insist upon the
grand and entire magnificence of the stake
and cause.
Once more we say it is all or nothing. This
Confederacy or the Yankee nation, one or the
other, goes down, down to perdition. That is
to say, one or the other must forfeit its ma
! tional existence and lie at the mercy of its
mortal enemy. We all know by this time
the fate in store for us if we succumb. The
other party has no smaller stake. AS surely
as we completely ruin their armes-and with
out that is no peace nor truce at all-so sure
! ly shall we make them pay our war debt
though we wiring it out of their hearts. And
they know it well, and, therefore, they can
not make peace except throu gh their utter ex-
| anu dDSOluGc lily W oI1IhO jill
| other blow.
The stake they have to forfeit then, if they
lose this dreadful game, is as vital as OURS
So is the stake to be won, if they win anything.
1t is no less than the entire possession of our
whole country, with us in it, and everything
that is ours, from Ohio to the Rio Grande, to
have and to hold, to them and their heirs for
ever. But, on the other hand, what we mean
to win is utter separation from them for all
time. We do not want to govern their coun-
try, but after levying upon it what seemeth
good to us by way of indemnity, we leave it
to commence its political life again from the
beginning hoping that the lesson may have
made them sadder and wiser Yankees. We
shut them out forever, with all their unclean
and scoundrelly ways, intending to lead our
lives here in our own Confederate way, with
In our own well-guarded bounds, and with
out, as st. John says, are dogs
And let no Confederate feeble knees and
tremulous backbone say to us, this complete
triumph is impossible say that we must be
content with some kind of compromise, and
give and take; on the contrary, we must gain
all or lose all, and that the Confederates will
indeed win the giant game we take to be as
certain as any future event in this uncertain
world. Meade's army and Rosecrans' once
scattered, Lincoln can get no more armies
The draft turns out manifestly fruitless. Both
the German and Irish element are now fol
peace. The Yankees have to bear the brunt
of the war themselves, but in the meantime
: their inevitable bankruptcy is advancing like
: an armed man. Hungry ruin has them il
3. the wind. 1t cannot be long before the Cab
: met Of Washington will have, indeed, to con-
: slider serious proposals for peace under aus
: pices and circumstances very different from
the present For the present the war rolls
and thunders on, and may God defend the
. right
s TINES CHANGES Fourteen out of the nine
teen Representatives in Congress chosen last
; fall in Ohio are copperhead. Ti0eJoe of them
T were left high and dry on the shoals by the
4 vote of their respective districts on the 18th