Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-10-30

From the RishnonA Enquirer, October ls.
PEACEi
n Save on our own terms We can accept n<
:. peace whatever, and must hght tin dooms
). day rather than yield an iota Of them, and
II our terms are:
9 Recognition by the enemy of the indepen
d dence of the Confederate States.
{ Withdrawal Of the Yankee forces from ev.
: cry foot Of Confederate ground, including
Kentucky and Missouri
e Withdrawal Of the Yankee soldiers from
. Maryland until that State shall decide by a
I free vote whether she shall remain in the
old Union or ask admission into the Confed-
, eracy.
Consent on the part of the Federal Gov.
: ernmcnt to give up to the Cobfederacy it's
proportion of the navy as it stood at the time
{ Of secession, o. pay for the same.
Yielding up Of oil pretension on the part
: OF the Federal Government TO that portion
: Of the odd territories which lies west of the
! Confederate States.
An equitable settlement on the basis Of our
st'~elute Independence and equal rights Of
oil secounts Of the public debt snd public
lands, and the advantages sccruing from for
eien treAties.
These provisions. we spprehend, comprise
the 0iRiauM Of what We must require be-
fore re lay down our arms. That il to say,
tse North must yield alive nothing
The whole psetension Of that country to pre-.
vent ny force the separation Of the States
'sust be abandoned, which will b equivalent
70 an avowsl that our enemies were wrong
from the fsst, and, Of course, a. they waged
. cssse1e@ end wicked war upon ", they
ought IN s,rict justice to be required, accord.
ing to usage w such cases, TO reimburse to
N the whole Of our expenses and losses in
the cosvse Of the war. Whether this last
Fssviso u to b. inaistsd upon or not. certain
VIC aSe ta'at se cannok have any peace at all
until We shall be in . pOsition not only to de-
ms&4 ssd exact, bst slao to enforce and col
lect. Treasure for our own reimbursement out
OF TIE voslthy citizens in the enemy's coun-
try. In other words. unless We can destroy
| and acatter their armies. and break up their
| Govesnmens, We can have no peace. and. il
We can do that, then We ought not only TO
| extost from them our own full terms and
ample acknowledgment Of their wrong. but
s'so handsome indemnity for the trouble
End expense caused to US BY their crime.
Now. We are not yet in position to die
tate those terms to our enemies. with Rose.
Grams army still in the heart Of our country.
and Meade still on Virginia soI, but though
II Is too eOon to propose such conditions to
them, yet 1t is important that we should keep
them plainly before our own eyes as the only
admissible basis Of any conceivable peace.
This well fixed in the Confederate mind. |
there will be no more fearful looking for
news from Europe, ~ If that blessed peace
were to come to us over the sra, and not to
- conquered on our own ground. Ine.- , I,
ton and filing Of the belly with the east !
wind; no more distraction or diversion from |
the single momentus business of bracing up
every nerve and sinew Of the country for
battle. 1t il especially row. at the moment
when great and perhaps decisive battles are
impending at two or three poins, that We
think it most essential to insist upon the
grand and entire magniRcence Of the stake
and cause.
Once more we say Il is all or nothing
or the other, goes down. down to perdition.
it's national existence and lie at the mercy
Of it's mortal enemy. We all know by this
time the fate in store for us IL we snccumb.
The other party has no smaller stake. As
surely a. We completely ruin their armies
and without that is no peace at all-so sure.
" shall we make them pay our war debt,
though We wiring it out Of their hearts
Aud they know it we'll, and, therefore, they
cannot make peace except through their Ut
ter exhaustion and absolute inability to strike
another blow.
The stake they have to forfeit then, II they
lose this dreadful game. is as vital ~ ours
So ia the stake 10 be won. il they win any.
thing. 1t is no less than the entire posses
sion Of on whole country, with MS in it, and
every thing that il ours. from 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 oil time. We do not want to gov
ern their country, but after levying upon il
what seemeth good to Va by way Of indem
nifty, we leave it to commence it's political life
again from the beginning hoping that the
lesson may have made them saddrr and wiser
Yankees. We shut them out forever, with
oil their unclean and scoundrelly Ways. in
tending to lead our lives here in our own
Confederate way, within our own well guard
ed bounds, and without, as St. John says,
are dogs.
| And let no Confederate feeble knees snd
tremulous backbone say to us. this com plete
triumph il impossible SAY that We must BE-
content with some kind Of compromise. and
give and take on the contrary, We must
gain ell or lose all, and that the Confrderates
will indeed win the giant game we take to be
~ certain as sny future event in this uncer-
tain world. Mcsde's army and Rosecrans'
once scattered, Lincoln can get no more ar
mics. The draft turns out manifestly fruit
less. Both the German and Irish element
are now for peace. The Yankees have to
hear the brunt Of the war themselves, but
in the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy
is advancing like an armed man. Hungry
ruin has them in the wind. It cannot be
long before the Cabinet OF Washington will
have. indeed. to consider seriously proposals
for peace. under auspices and circumstances
very different from the present For the
present the war rolls and thunders on, and
may God defend the right.
|
Two dollar Treasury Notes. altered to at.
ties are in circulation in Illinois. The word
Two is very cleverly substituted for the word
| Fifty in the principal line. while oil Of the 80
IN &gurcs are dangerously natural. The
small twos around the margin are pencilled
over, and the green upon the back is mixed
and spread 40 a. 10 cover the large figWres s.
To render il all the more dangerous the gen
uine twos and fiftics have both large side
view likenesses Of Alexander Hamilton !;
those in the ffties being in the middle of the
bill. towards the left end, while those 1t the
twoS are ut thc bottom Of the bills and nearer
the end In the genuine fifty there is . sig
nature on each cpd, while in the altered bills
| both signatures are on the left end