The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-30
IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH.
The Conditions Clearly Stated.
What their Hopes Rest upon.

Nut~ outstanding tn. cheering rnmors of
an early recognition by France, I"t~ilh
stan,iing the fict :l,at The Cabinet at wash
ington has been considering "proI" sails for
peace "-prOpOsals uf Is own, for it has
none of ours to coIl>ider-n"tw,ih-ta
the white flag that was seen in the heavens
by respectable woman, and the march of
the w:ial troops n0,thwa,tks, witnessed by
a man of good character, in the clouds in
spite of all this, there is not the sligh:es.
prospect of speedy peace visible to us.
There will he Ito peace until the military
power of the Yankee natirn is entirely
broken, and its people SO thoroughly sick
cned Of the war that We can exact our own
terms
Save On our own terms, we can accept
no peace whatever, and must fight till
dooms.lay rather than yield an iota Of
them; and our terms are:
Recognition by the enemy of the indie
pendence Of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal Of Yankee forces from
every foot OF Confederate ground, includ-
ing Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal uf Yankee soldiers from
Mary land until that State sha decide Ivy
free vote whether she shall remain in
the old Union or ask admission into the
Contederacy.
Con cent, on the part of the Federal
Government, to give up t" the Confed-
eracy its proportion of the navy as it stood
at the time OF secession, or to pay for tho
same.
Yielding up all pretension, on the part
of the Federal Government, to that por-
ton OF the old territories which lies west
of the Confederate States.
An equitable settlement-on the basis
of our as, lutte independence and equal
| rig!ts-of all accounts OF the public debt
and public lands, and CT the advantages
accruing from foreign treaties
These provisions We apprehend, COM
prise the minimum of what We must re-
quire before We lay down our arms. That
is to say, the No tn must yield alive
nothing. The whole pretei,>ions of that
country to prevent by force the separation
| of the States must be abandoned, which
will be equivalent to an avowal that our
| enemies were wrong from the first and,
OF course, as they waged a cau>eless and
| wicked war upon us, they ought, in strict
justice, to be required, according to Usage
in such cases, to reimburse To us the whole
of our expenses and losses in the course Of
that war.
Wht ther this last proviSo is to be in
sisted 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 enforce and coli. ct, the
fro far
OF the wealthy cities in the ene,ny's cOun-
try. In other words, unless We can de-
stiOy or scatter their armies and break up
| their government, We can have no peace;
and it we can do that, then We can, and
ought not only to extolt from them our
own full terms, and ample acknowledge
ment of their WRONG, but also q handsome
indemnity for the trouble and expense
caused to US by their crime.
Now, we are not yet in a position to
dictate those terms to our enemies, with
Rost Grams army still in the heat of lie
country, and Meade still on Virginia soil;
but though it Is too soon to propose sucl,
conditions to them, yet it is important
that we should keep them plainly before
our own eyes as the only admissible basis
of any conceivable peace. This we'll fixed
in the Confederate mind, there will be no
mere fearful kMking tor of news from Eu-
rope, as if that blessed peace were to come
to us over the sea, and not to be conquer
ed on Our own ground; no more gaping
for hints of recOgnitions, g filling the belly
with the east wind - no more distraction
or diversion from tie single momentOus
business of bracng up every nerve and
s!new Of the country for fierce battle.
1t Is peclally now, ut a moment when
great and perhaps decisive battles are i'm
pending at two or three points, that We
think it the most essential to insist upon
the grand entire magniticence of the stake
and of the cause. Once more we sa, it is
all nothing. This Cont; deracy or the
Yankee nation, one or the other, goes
down, down to per.lition: that is to say,
one or the other must forfeit its national ex-
istence, and lie at the mercy OF its morta!
enemy. We all know by this time the
fate in store for Us if zee succumb. The
other party has no smaller stake. As
surely as We completely ruin their armies
and without tl.at is no peace and no
truce at also surely shall We make them
pay pui wal NSOt, CiouSh "O NIHuf, ~ out
of their hearts. And they know it well /;
and therefore they cannot MAKE peace ex-
cept through utter exhaustion and abso-
lutte inability to strike another 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 il no less than the pos
session of our entire country, with US in
it, from the Ohio to the Rio Grande, to
have and to hold to them and their heirs
forever 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 country but after levying
ON it what seeneth good to US ty way of
indemnity, leave it to commence its polit-
zeal life again from the beginning, hoping
that the lesson may have made them FAD
der 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,
within our own well-guardsd bounds;
and without, as St. John says, without
are dogs"
And let no Confederate of feeble knees
and tremulous backbon say to US, this
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