New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-09-09
PHRNANDO,s MARE,s.NEsT.

hesitate to create Fernando Wood Duke of
Effrontery. All hereditary arStocracies in time
become tangled and awry; but at the outset
merit and capacity should be strictly favored:
and the fitness of this creation would be univer-
sally realized.
or heard from some one whom he declines to
NAME but whom he chooses to consider ian
authority" that "the Southern States would
send representatives TO the next Congress, pro.
vidcd full and general amnesty should permit
them to do So" Whercupon he asked the PreSi'
dent, not merely to grant the amnesty. but to
arrest the progress of tho War for the Union and
agree that gentlemen whose former political
and social relations with the leaders Of the
Southern revolt may be allowed to hold unof-
ficial correspondence with them on this subject"
I'm other words, Mr.. Wood wished to be
authorized by the Government TO negotiate such
Peace Sith the Rebels as he and they should
deem the thing.
The President promptly responded that the
war ON our part should be stopped and the am
ncsty should be forthcoming whenever the
Rebels should lay down their arms and return
to loyalty and the Union. SO far, all was easy.
But no fresh from the remarkable revelations
of DR.. VIM. Chase Barney and j. Wesley
Greene didn't believe in the readiness of the
Southern Rebels TO lay down their arms-didn't
SEQ the wisdom of stopping the war to expert
| tb.;r orbIpai nd neannalla III
and didn't choose to employ Messrs. Wood q
Company in the delicate negotiations suggested.
He would prefer to do his own work and choose
his own agents; and he was sure the Rebels
wore perfectly aware that they would he well
coined whenever they chose 10 return to loyalty.
-IIereupon Wood writes another letter to the
President, abusing and insulting him to the ex-
tent Of his ability; and now he gives the core.
| spondencc TO the public, including the Prcsi-
dents letter, which had been written him in
confidence, with request that It be not pub.
lishcd If any one shall after this trust himself
in writing to the honor Of Fernando Wood, he
will have no right TO complain il his trust ~
betrayed.
| And now A. to Woods assumption that shc
Rebels were ready las, November TO return to
the Union on any conditions: We have the most
conclusive proofs of its tlsi,y. They are con-
tanned in the acts of the Rebel Governmcn,
throughout; in the Proclamations aud other
manitestoes Of lis President, and in flo-e 81 The
Governors, Legislatures and other iunctionaries
Of It's several States. the daily declarations Of
It's journals, &c. &c. Let In give few spcci-
| mons:
]. Mr. vallandigham was In Southern Ten
nessec after he was sent across the lines by Gen.
Rosecrans, and there met lsham @. Harris, the
Rebel Governor Of Tennessee. OF their inter
view, Gen. John A. Garfield Of Ohio (who IL In
Rosecrans's army gives the following account:
In fun and frank conversation between himself
| Val and Gov HnIri, the latter. amer hearing Mr
vnllsndighain. statements ~ bic own opinions ard
policy. Snid in the presence ~ many wiinsse' lou
totally misundersinnd rs We Asrs rs,orsd 70 h''sn 70
No frr., sLorf Of f.s o,s! sps,sos sss asois insf
pend,H, 81 G S'aA sHd - rH soc' We boundary 'o1iA
e(h, has Of "a, Oa.o 0sd ns Pgo'sSe AeSOsiioS ~
any ohry tsU, 10 snrrly Esd'f
II. All las, Winter, the Editor Of The
TRIBUNE, being assured tina, the Rebels were
anxious for = fair and honorable peace was al
open, public advocate 81 such Pcace-as well
known Ia be such in Richmond ~ In Ncw-fork.
To the Democrats who approached him with
representations in favor OF such Peace, he was
accustomed 10 say, "you speak faIrly; but you
and We cannot make Peace: What do Us Reb,fs
proposel" II mas notorious throughout that
couricrs passed weekly between Ncw.iork and
Richmond, and that Democrats here knew
what Rebels there desrcd, believed and sought.
Yet never once did he hsM one word from
the Rebel chiefs that looked 10 Peace on
any other basis than that Of Disunon and
the subjugation Of West Virginia 10 her ancient
masters. Why not, if the Rebels were really In
clined to even a Pro-Slaycry reunion
iii. The World Of yesterday publishes cob
bspicuously the following, which, We have no
doubt, Is (as Il purports To be) Of Rebel origin;
NEw YORK September j.
To the Editc, Of TIE World
I trouble you again. US I have lust returned from
Richmond The confcderacy 10 alive md not dead
She avors and bcgs for except On her
own eYms She will never be rrstorrd" to the iion
% s s:s Fl. s HsI D., n"s tod me-
he should succeed II III costs twenty years war. and
that he fsrrstng out those at the Sonah VINO write
tranOrOng letters 10 Northern Lsinocrhu ana thc wiz
| be MARKEpi Lot North Carolina dare 10 secedc or
prove eacbcrous for every leader that has the to-
mesty " attempt 1t will hang as high ~ Ilnman, no
mercy will be shown.
| The (onfsderacy will standi She has seen darker
days than now, Before the LIST Of November neIt. .
blow viii be struck that will seuneract all the victories
that Abolition General Grant bns Remember the
prophecy you know predicted the defeat Of Hooker
Il JEFF Davis will triumph
I-lRebel Spy.l Respectfully. BrAuRrGARD.
Such is the spirit which, even yet, anImatcs
Foreign aid, and hopes thereby to accomplish
tha run nf our cnunfrv II In truculsnt ven.