The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-03-17

the Constitution ourselves, and give us
every guarantee we would ask, we would
sooner be under the government o.
France or England"
The Savannah Neus says that the peace
propositions made at the North are
cowardly and ridiculous, and those who
put them forth know that the South viii
not accept peace on any terms than un.
conditional independence"
"We demand an armistice," cry the
peace men in Illinois, New Jersey, and
elsewhere, and straight-way Mr.. Foote
replies in the rebel Congress
=" Nor could the government Of said
Confederate States agree TO negotiate al
all in regard 10 suspension of hostili-
ties, except upon basis Of formal and
unconditional recognition of their inde-
pendence."
81 Let us hold Convention OF all the
States at Louisville" say the Western
Peace Men; but the Richmond Enquirer
answers, even before the proposition is
formally put on paper:
"The advocates of peace al the North
may as well dismiss from their program
me the preposterous proposition for a
Joint convention with the South. The
South cannot, by any moral possibility.
consent to reunion"
"We will take the Northwestern
States into the Southern Confederacy," ;"
exclaim certain traitorous devotees OF
slavery in those States. But the Allan
ia MteNgencer meets them with these
words F.:
The admission ofany free States in.
to cur Union is not only repugnant TO us,
but will only be a continuance of that
evil which has brought on the war, and
to get rid Of which we are now fight.
ing"
"Stop fighting. Make an armistic-
no formal treaty. Withdraw your army
from the seeded States cries Vallan,
dighan. in Congressman the Richmond
Enquirer commends his proposition as
-" the means to final separation OF
the States, total destruction of the
Union. and the triumphant recognition
of the Independence of the Confederates. F."
Nor are the Northern lovers of slave
ry treated even with common courtesy
by their wayward sisters" The Rich
mond Dispatch speaks of I" the party of
which Brooks and Yallandigham are
representatives, with genuine Virgin
ian politeless, as fools enough to be-
lievo" certain things it says they" :" look
only to their pockets when they rreach
reconciliation and reconstruction. Eng.
lish colonization. French vassalage,
Russian serfdom. all are preferable to
any association with the Yankees"
We would not reunte with them If
they would, one and all, consent TO oc-
cupy the same position of degradation
which they aimed to rivet on US. We
would not consent to hold the Northern
States even as provinces. On this sub.
ject there is hardly ripple upon the
surface Of southern sentiment"
says the Richmond Enquirer. And
again
"The seeded States will never volun-
tarily submit to any terms of reunion
which it is possible for the ingenuity of
man 10 devise, or even to imagine If
the whole Yankee race should fall down
in the dust tomorrow and pray us to be
their masters. we would spurn them even
rs slaves"
And that eminent southern gentlemen.
Jefferson Davis, says:
III the question was proposed to you
whether you would combine with hyenas
or Yankees, | trust every Nirginian
would say, Give me the hyenas.'
Here then is the plain issue. The
rebels will never voluntarily ground
their arms until the Southern Confederq
cy is recognized. That done, an arm
islice will be agreed on. provided that
our armies are first withdriwn from the
eleven States. Then they will treat with
us as to pesee demanding the District
of Columbia, Maryland, Kentucky, &c,
with large proportion Of the Territories,
snd such line of separations as they
may dictate, and ii we refuse 10 concede
all this, war will be resumed by them
with ten fold the advantages which they
now possess Who does no. see in this
a surrender pusilanimous and coward
ly," rs Erastus Brooks has truly stigma.
tied il? But this is the feast TO which
the Tory demagogues Of Iowa. Mahony,
Dean. Jones. Dodge. and their cocoon
spiralors are inviting the people They
cry Peace. Peace. when there is no
Peace" and when they are plotting re-
bcllon and civil war at the North,
" Peace, says Mahony. and then calls
on the people to prepare for the blood
Of Revolution in Iowa Who can
doub, that such men ara worse enemies