New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-26
CONDITIONS OF PEACE.


that the Proclamation of Freedom is in good
faith a means to that end; the other importing
that we would favor any Peace proposition
that does not contemplate new concessions to
Slayery-and asks whether "Peace on the
basis of Southern independence would fall
within this category.
We answer that, if The Ii,nss's implication
that we would favor any conceivable Peace that
did not extend Slavery is warranted, our
language was quite too broad and uusuarded.
We might have Peace, for example, By stpu-
ating with the South for mutual return to
Colonial dependence on Great Britain, or By q
Ike surrender of our Nationality to France,
or any other OF dozen conceivable yet most
Improbable devices for putting an end to the
War. But we had none Of these in cOntem.
plation when we made the incautous statement
quoted by III. Times.
We believe there is not and never was any
other necessity for contemplating The possibility OF
Dsunion Peace than that which has been
created by imbecility and treason in our Mill
tary councils and by the corresponding dis!o!
atty eyinced by controlling section OF the
Democratic politicians. The Rebellion could al
any time have been speedily crushed by an
eficieu. and skillful employment OF the re-
sources of the LOYAL States. 1t has been kept
alive by Military strategy that never meant To-
! pu. il down aud BY political strategy IN Tie
Free States thu. was deliberately calculated to
secure it substantial triumph by ending a.
! Juggling, exhaustive, iudeclsyc War ia n CON-
promise that should make tho arsranlIzemert
of Slavery ;hs chief end Of oar National exist
ence, end any further adyocncy of Liberty Tor
All alike illegal, perilous, odious and trultless
! Against this Democratic strategy-Alitary and
| Poliical--we have struggled and mean TO strug-
Gle 10 the end. And OF the two possible dis
asters-thc claiming of our whole country ir.
reyocubly TO tho footstool Of the triumphant
Slave Power, and the slaughins or Of so much
Of our soil as il mny be able by force to tear
away--wc could better endure the latter. In
other words, we prefer Misfortune to Crime.
But there is no necessity for contemplating
any such alternative-nope, that is, but what
is created by the difloyal attitude of certain
Northern Democrats, and the danger. now
visbly sub-dng, that they may obtain power
to execute their designs. Only let the People
heartily sustain tho War, as il only can be
sustained, by giving cordial supper. to the
National Militia net, the Financial and kindred
measures just adopted by Congress, and by
hunting up deserters and compelling them 10
return to their duty, and let the Government
use with wisdom and energy the means thus
placed in lis hands ard there will be no Re-
bellion 10 negotiate with, no Confcdcrary to
require Disunion, In very short time. Had
tie elections of last Fall indicated hearty
support of the Government by the People, we
believe there would have been none alive to-
day.
We understand the President 10 hold that he
has no right 70 consent to dissolution of the
Union-that lie Inauguration oath solemnly
binds him TO maintain at oil hazards and to
the utmost limit of the power confded in him
by the People, the integrity of the Nation and
enforce the execution Of her laws. OF course,
Necessity is above law; and if the People
desert him and withhold the needed resources,
40 that the traitors shall oyerpower and van
quish our armies, he must make "the best OBJ
tainable pence" There mGs danger not long
ago that the Copperhead disloyalty, then in its
ascending node, might reduce him to this dire
extremity. We trust that peril has now
passed, and that the result Of the approaching
elections in Rhode leland and Connecticut will
proclaim ito extinction.
The Times happens to present, in tho very
next column to that in which it makes in
quiries a. to our Vows the letter of its Lon
don correspondent, from which We extract ns
follows
"There se IN tho opinion Of tho eblert European Oh
servers. three possible termination, presen, contest
Ing Of Wow the OF foreign intervention The
IT, that the North accepting tho nece'y OF unveu
CONSUMPTION. will by great and overwhelming ehor
quer the South. and crush gu. the Rebellion.
They wait with OF less anxiety ns 70 their sym
pathes and hopes to II this last appei Of tho Gov,ru
men viii with patriotic respoDs, iIom the g.ope.
Of failure Of tho consumption 70 bring ont the
strength Of the nation and Of corresponding failure OF the
people to sustain credit Of the Government it,
Of paying aud supporting the armies 10 tho he Is believed
that the neIt best mu DO to offer accept terms
peace No Indication to thi, end Is needed II the North
either will not conquer tbs South there IL
ia protrac.ed aud useess warfare. The Federal States
would s be tho great power Power Of the Continent anil
every year would add to It's superiority. Tho scush the
weaker Power would always bo Influenced ani controlled by
tue Noth to which would aso be- ~ 1t always has BEEN
commercial tributary
"But there third possibility believed In hero. Persist
sncs in the war; the carrying out OF the conserp,ion,
against the feeling, Of majority Of powerful mi