Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-10-29
The Rebel Ultimatum of Peace.

Union OF Southern Sympathizing in his
views, should read the following article,
and not only read, but ponder it we'll
before voting next Tuesday.
From the Richmond Enquirer, October 10th.
Save on our own terms, we can accept
no peace whatever, and must fight till
doomsday rather than yield an iota of
them, and our terms are:
Recognition by the enemy of the in
dependence Of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal of the Yankee forces
from every foot of Confederate ground,
including Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers
from Maryland until that State shall
decide by a free vote whether she shall
remain in the old Union or ask admis-
sion into the Confedracy.
Consent on the part of the Federal
Government to give up to the. Con-
federacy its proportion of the navy as it
stood at the time Of secession, or to pay
for the same.
Yielding up Of all pretension on the
part of the Federal Government to that
portion Of the old territories which lies
west of the Confederate States,
An equitable settlement ON the basis
OF our absolute independence and equal
rights OF all accounts of the public debt
and public lands, and the advantages
accru.ng from foreign treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend, COM
prise the menimum of what we must re-
quire before we lay down our arms
That is to say, the North must yield all
we nothing. The whole pretension
of that country to prevent by force the
separation of the States must be aban-
doned, which will be equivalent to an
avoWal that our enemies were wrong
from the first, and, Of course, as they
waged oauseless and wicked war upon
us, they ought in strict justice to be re-
quired, according to usage in such cases,
to reimburse to us the whole Of our ex-
penses and losses in the course Of that
war. Whether this last proviso is to
be insisted upon or not, certain We are
that we cannot have any peace at all
until we shall be in a position not only
to demand and exact, bat also to enforce
and collect, treasure for our own REIN
burcements out Of the wealthy cities Of
the enemys country. In other words
unless we can destroy or scatter their
armies, and break up their Government
we can have DO peace, and, if we can do
that, then we ought not only to extort
from them our own full terms, and am
pie acknowledgements of their wrong,
but also handsome indemnity for the
trouble and expense caused to us by
their crime,
Now, we are not yet in position to
dictate those terms to our enemies, with
Rosecrans' army still in the heart of or
country, and Mead still GA Virginia soil
but though it is too sooa to propose such
conditions to them, yet it is important
that we should keep them plainly before
our own eyes as the only admissible
basis of any conceivable peace. This
we'll fixed in the confederate mind, there
will be no more fearful looking foa
news from Europe, as if that blessed
peace were to come to us over the sea,
and not to be conquered on our OWE
ground There will be no more gaping
for hints Of recognition and filing of
the belly with the East wind; no more
distraction or Diversion from the single
momentous business of bracing up every
nerve and sinew of the country for bat
tie. It is especially now, at the mo-
ment when great and perhaps decisive
battles are impending at two or three
points, that we think it most essential
to insist upon the grand and entire mag
nifcence Of the stake and cause.
Once more we say it is all.or nothing.
This Confederacy or the Yankee nation,
one or the other, goes downtown. to
perdition. That is to say, one or the
other must forfeit its national existence
and lie at the mercy Gifts mortal enemy.
We all know, by this time, the fate in
pickle for us if we succumb. The 9TH
er party has no smaller stake. AS sure
ly as we completely ruin their armies
and without that there is no peace nor
truce at all-so surely shall we make
them pay cur war debt, though we
wiring it out Of their hearts. And they
know it well, and, therefore, they can
not make peace except through their ut
ter exhaustion and absolute inability to
strike another blow
The stake they have to forfeit then,
if they lose this dreadful game, isIas Vi
tai as ours. So is the stake to be won,
if they win anything. 1t is no less
than the entire possession Of our whole
country, with us in it, and everything
that is 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 all time
We do not want to govern their country,
but after levying upon it what seemeth
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