Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-20
PEACE AND UNION.

The New York ".Frceu,an's Journal" =
Catholic paper, discon-scs on the var policy OF
the Lincoln Administrator. Oniy enc thing
is manifest in ali the protests Of these opposi-
ton journals, namely: that they. desire to see
the war and its management, and its profits,
in the hands Of their Democratic friends. 1t
is not the war the? ol,icc! 10. no. the manage
mcnt of the H-ar, but only tic people who
manage it. There is still an inrererate dc!u-
sion amonsss Democrats" that they, if they
only had a chance, could make peace and Sc
cure ''Union.' The Freeman" says:
Every week since the war began every
Abolition ofice holder and newspaper advo-
cate of the'Adn:iniStration's negro policy has
literally assured the people that the war Is
alpAost over
"The precise truth in the matter is just
this Restore the government IL honest and
patriotic hands, aud the war then III fact
would he 'am3S. over Continue the Adj
,pinistration in the hands Of these men who
are fighting for tho suliugation OF tle States
and the abrosation Of State institutions, and
the war is to be relentless and perpetual.
ga military viccory here ami there does not
end the war. We may take Charleston as we
have taken Norfolk: we may take Mobile as
we have taken New Orleans; We may take all
the Southern sirougholls, and that is but the
very beginning Of q war OF abolition and sub.
iugation. The man does not live who will
ever behold the end Of the war, and the con-
struction Of Union upon the principles OF
the sectional party which now rules over US"
No; nor upon any principle Whatever
| But there is no use in contradicting these
incurablc Democrats they think themselves
wiser than al; other people, North or South ;
! imagine that they know the minds of the
Confederatcs better than the Consederates do
themselves. We sec. however, that the vast
| majority of the Yankee people put no trust in
! the fossil Democratic party; they feel in
stinctiTely that it is dead, or ought to be, for
! 6thc braius are out" Accordingly, they
have pronounced against it hy'sweeping mar
ioritiea: and 50 much The bctter.s The Free
man" proceeds
"Thosc principles can never command the
popular assent o.: the South, and, until that
popular assent is gained, there is aud can he
no peace and Unior.
What have wc done? The war has been
! fought for nearly three years. We have
laqded the nation down with sorrow aud debt;
lIendrcds and thousands of our braTe and
p1trot;c men have leen slain. Aud Yet 1t Is
Gods truth that the Government can command
/ less free-wll support in the Soushern States
! 70 day than when It's ARMIES were first l'uriea
| against the enemy. Every month of war.
| under the proclamation and for suhinsati1Ino'
| has tended to cement, ferpetuate and trati-
| tionalizc hatred Of he Ncrth in every South
!, crn household ard as TO everything which
| makes real Union and real peace, we are
| farther off from thu scal to-day than two years
] ago.
1.-THE sooner the people get rid of these shal
! low and fallacious notions that conquest means
Union-that subiuGation means peace-:he
! sooner shall we regain the lost blessings OF a
real Union. .
I'VE hare now some military victories. =
We have conquered Norfolk, lu; there is nj