The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-09-24
: oTFUNwAy IOWA, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER a. 1863;

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FAlsehood 'and Daplfciiy 81 ilhe
4, no stPeace iDemscrais.' }oo'a''
Is The pesce talk Of the copperhsad leaders
ID fsise and fraudulent. ? Il Ii an attempt
to deceive the people and make political cap
it'd :ainst decentralization on tAlse ba-
sis. Thsy attempt 10 make the people
think that the government has had an .op-
(Portunity to negotiate = peace, and indeed
that the rebel les3ers have actually made
advances to shat effect. There ID no, truth
in these representations. The published: cor
rsspondence between Fernando Wood and
the President, last winter proves that the
former was playing . fraudulent game z He
had no authority for, his opinion that the
Southern States would send representatives
70 Congress If ~ full and general amnesty
were given. The president invited him to
give information on the subject IL he had
any. and be. cou;d not do 1t, and forthwith
fell TO- osabusing the president for not taking
his epinisn for fact ~ dir ens,i,
sdi The portbroueht back BY Vallsndigham
from the South proves ID be- equally false,
ase vsrybody Ssit atfthe time thst it must be.
He asserted positively and without sqdaiifi-
eaton that hs met with nobody who did
not expresssa willingness to consider and
discuss the question Of reunion whenever
our armies should be Withdrawn from south
ern soiLo7, The rebel papers denied the
report as soon ~ it reached them, and de-
clarcd that Vsllandigham must have strange
ly misunderstoodiwh he heard at the South.
But the Ohio traitor did not misunderstand.
He gave false test,mony purposely and for .
base objeet.o Gen. James Az Garfield pub
isbes aaletter. in, the Cincinnati Gazette e in
which he says that he knows and can prove
that when in tho South, Vallandigham had
a full and frank conversation with Govsfnor
Harris, the rebel governor Of Tennessee,
and that Gov. Harris, after hearing Vailan-
digham's statement of'his own opinions and
policy, and IN the presence Of msny witness
rs :'ar'You totally misunderstood us. We
havesresolvsd to listen to no terms short OF
the total separation and absolute independ-
ence of the South, and We will accept no
boundary south Of the line Of the Ohio and
the Potomac. Negotiation On any
other basis is utterly useless" The truth
of this cannot be dcubtsd. 7fIt Is consistent
with all that the rebel leaders say and have
said from the beginning. and with the can.
stant declar&tions Of the rebel press. " n is
impossible to bolievs that vail.ndigham, told
the truths Hseithers He'd deliberately. o.
his vehofmous hostility to the government
made hun incapable of telling the truth. "sN
Tne fact is--aaanna AM every days accounts .ooprt
from the Sout i sustain thhe.I asserttion@that
that portson Of the southern people who arc (,
willing to discuss the question 81 re union.
and are discussing i, do not ask the with
drawal Of the United States forces as an es-
sentiaf preliminary to "a return to their allie :
glance. but quiet the contrary, They ask
that the Union armies may be strengthened
and press on to the complete overthrow Of
the rebellion, They ask this for their ow n
protection. and IS the only condition u,,on
which the loyal people OF the rebel states
can show themselves and make any attempt
At ! restoration Of the Union. And on the
other hand, the only men who demand the
withdrawn. Of the U mon troops are the in.
vsterate rebels, who still assert at every
breath that they never will entertain propo-
sitions for 4 retu in to the Union, and that
the only peace they will accept must b,
based On recognition Of the independence
Of the confederacy, : :
All these facts are too notorious to be
questioned, and they convict Yallandigham.
Wood Ind the other peace democrats Of the
most shameless falsehood aud duplicity.
They know perfect. well that the adminisrra-
ton has rejected no overtures Of peace from
the rebels, and the re,els tell them day by
day that they never will concent to peace
in the Union. . What show ofjustics then
in their attacking the administration As il it
wer. guilty Of prolonging the war when is
might make peace II !. would Z The presi-
dent told Wood in December that whenever
the rebels should cease their resistance to
tho authority Of the government, the var
would caase and 4 full and general amnes.
" be declared. The conditions are certain.
y reasonable and lepient enough, and there
is no danger that the government viii be too
severe in dealing with traitors after the
war is over. It is more likely to err on the
sids Of mercy and sforbearance. But the
ching to be roted how ii that thsse psacs
leaders It the North are Is false 10 tl,eir
testimony As they are REASONABLE in their
spirit and purposs.-Sprinassld Rpu5li-
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