Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-11-20
From tie Rev York SeSs of Ia, Eth
TIE PROGRESS OF PEACE PRINCI-

\ The Peace Pas.;zo Of Tho eo.Atry mus. clio.
Of the recent elections has clearly manifested
people is in favor of an immediate cessation
OF hostilitics, and tho declaration of I'm ar
misiico, that passion may have time TO cool
md reason may once moro lift her VOICE.
The election in the glorious little State a
New Jersey shows the potentiality OF TIE
Peace principle there. The reflections in
Bergen of the gallant Thomas Dunn English,
and the unfallering Dater, are, glorions tri-
sends rs her Senator Joshua Dougherty-who
from tho first has been the stern opponent Of
the war and the administrat:on-an the
brave Cary to the Assembly, who, for his bold
defence oil the principles Of constitutional lib
crtr, and his manly opposition to an Adolf
'ion war, was sent TO the damp casemates Of
Fort Lafayette. Burlington sends jarrett
Stokes to thS Assembly, an advocate for peace,
and the Union and the Constitution rs or
fathers made them. Union sends Jenkins t"
the Senate, where his voice and influence wi!
be heard in behalf CT peace, and in oEposi
ton TO a continuance Of war, controlled ard
guided by an insane fanaticism. Mn
mouth sends as her Senator Henry s.
Little, who, as the representative Ct pa
trotic constituency, will urge measures that.
look to something beyond continued slaughto
and the exhaustive Influences Of debt, rs
means of restoring the Union and re estab-
fishing the Constitution. There is large and
effective majority for the principles Of the
peace party in tho Legislature, and We l'nl
forward with interest to the platform Of prin.
ciples they will enunciate. ,S In Pennsylvania
a large majority Of The quarter Of million
voters who cast their ballots for Woodward
were Peace Democrats, and no man who
mingled among the crowds that gatho ei al
their meetings could mistake the feeling. All
illusions to bringing about o termination Of,
the war were hailed with most enthusiastic
cheering and oil reference to such War Dem
oerats as Messrs. Butler, Dix, CochraDr
Brady, Ell id omne genus ofpensioners upon the
patronage Of the Administration, was received
with grOaus and denunciations. So was it in
Ohio and Indiana. The great West is tired
of war, and can see rtothing in its continued
prosecution, but ruin and desoation. The
rapid Impeachment OF tie West to feed
the rapacious cornorants Of New England
making the West "hewcrs Of wood and draw
ers of water" to the East, as the South were
so long before this war commenced, is fast
causing the scales to drop from eyes hitherto
blinded. twas only by the most stupcndous
ezertions, and by frauds that should make
their perpetrators hide their heads in very
shame, that the Administration was enabled
to prevent the legitimate voice of the people
from being heard All the Peace Democrat;
want throughout the country is perfect organ
isation, and distinct and uncquivocai plat
form. Let every township organize its clubs,
proclaim its platform and register its advo-
Gates. Let Lecture Associations be organ
.ized everywhere, ani the leading advocatesof
pure Democratic principles be invited to speak
Remember that o forcibe thinker has said:
"a despotio Governments an inverted cone,
resting upon point, aud liable To- be topp!:ed
down by the smallest movement" The prin-
ciplc Of the Abolition oligarchy i, that the
people should be defrauded of the electric
franchise, that they may more easily decraud
them of everything else. Organize, it for
nothing else, to defend the purity ofthe ballot.