New-York daily tribune., 1863-05-14
"pRACEv STATE CONVENTION.


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"PRACEn STATE CONVENTION.
The "Peaco Democrats" Of our State have
issued their call for State Convention, to as
semble in this city on Wednesday, June 3.
They take the ground affirmed by the support
ers of Thomas II. ssymour in Connecticut,
,aying in their call:
We love the Union We Will never willingly relinqush
i Its enemies enemies ard the enemies Of Human
posed sepOn of those States and for this reason are
opposed 10 all whether OF pescs or war; tending to
that result We think that the effort, 70 'u.sn ths oho9 py
force In the hands OF those who now direct tho ov
ernnen have proved failure Whistler this failure ha been
designed or not cleaI mat ths ensss oi 'ns ,,.o
and Corruption Of men in Power. have had this result
A,suming that the Administration desires to restore tbe
Union II cannot be accomplished by brute force Nor
do believe that the past nsthes continuation OF such
policy until peaceful remedies have been attsnpted sni
hsu,sd Asyet, they have nt been attempted WITHOUT re-
eIrng further the causes tue fact Of war sre thus af
hOwSyI great Is,STss "hf h hoVs 1,. %
otc and ,efucIhcg the noble annie, hieh have been
di.ss,ed and destroyed in.iorae' h'toiy hA'
honor Is destructive to ell onr great material INTEREST,".
In view Of these results af more ,h.n Two ysti, een
tinusl aud uuces,ing military conhe We sIe ir aAns ono
step uron tn. road Of pesceigl effort Mo arc now io'
vigorous PIo.ses.oa@ "a o Rsss ,nd no terms ct ~
syery pr pciple Of honor vii 80 yer, is IA bspl oi
under he Con,tuon s. We believe sbti these are
the prevailing sentiments of mss'c.
the fanatics and the Lundrecs OF thon'and'
who sIssdy OF hopefo be- peusionsd uPon The liou,
We know that the pubic ioies ssnass ehss q
change can be effected by constitutions mea
We have thus given oil that is essential
of their programme, SO that every reader shall
be qualified to judge Of the fairness Of our
comments. Hear us, and decide between us:
I. While we will not deny that these
" Peace" Democrats ." love the Union." We
maintain that it is untrue that practically " it's
enemies are our enemies" On the contrary,
they have spoken and acted throughout as if
they regarded those striving TO maintain the
Union as their enemies and those plotting and
fighting to destroy it as their friends. Let us
here print the names Of so many of them as
have any political status, and appeal for the
trutL of our ayernent TO all who know them.
They are
Edw'd A Lawrence. .Qsssna Thoa @. Young. ssralesA
Fernando W oOd, Esw.YorL Oliver Kse'e. Essex
stephen P. Russell, do. Jo. II. Flinders, Franklin
c. Godfrey Gupthsf, do. Norman y. Mssby oneid,
Gideon J. Tucker. do. James b. Howe Tioga
William Chsuncsy, do. Y. c. Dinniny, s,euben.
Be,janin Ray do N L. Paine Monroe.
Arch. C. Hvsn. Sullivan c. J. Chamberlain. Allosany.
james Clinton, Uh,sr J. l.. Pratt. Chaut,uqlA
Tobias Bouck schoharfe. X. ii. Shankland, Cstgus
There are .iry.four s.ner to the eAl-,wo from each
Senate Di,trc-bu, recognize others han tho above
a, Of any weight whstsver
Now, then, if these gentlemen and their as.
sociates have, from the beginning Of our great
National trial, regarded aud treated the
avowed, determined, deadly enemies OF the
Union o. their enemies, they are entitled to
belief in what follows aboyei if not, not.
Fellow. citizens who know them! judge them,
their professions and their movements, by the
standard they have thus themselves established
ii. They assert that "the efforts to sustain
the Union by force Of arms have proved a
failure" SO just such men would have as
serted, two years after the opening Of our
Revolutionary contest that the efforts to es-
tablish American Independence by arms bad
proved failure-the truth in either instance
being that the great issue had not yet been
decided at all. And all these men can say
about " the incompetency, funaticism, and
corruption Of men in power" only tends to
strengthen the position that the issue has not
yet been decided.
III. These gentlemen think the Usion can
not be restored "by mere brute force" But
who first resorted to "mere brute forcel"
How are sediton and insurrection ever to be
suppressed if the government they assal is to
be interdcted from the use of "mere brute
force" while the ranks of the Rebels CLEAN
with bsyOnets and their hands are red with
blood 7 What sort of logic is this that shoots
the sheriff and imprisons the magistrate as the
essential means of restoring peace
". They assert that as yet "pcnceiul rom
edles" "have not been attempted" This is
traitoIOusly false. The legislation of Congress
during the Session of 'G0-6l; the action Of tho |
Republicans in the Peace Congress, so called |
the Inaugural OF President Lincoln; bis for.
bearance for weeks, in view of the osientatious
defiance of the laws and seizure Of public prop
erty being perpetrated by Wholesale throughout
the Slave States, all brand the charge OF these
COpperheads 6s al impudeDt, audacOus un-
truth. Never before did strong government
so long oppose "peace'ul remedies" to vlo-
lent and bloody Rebellion. Not till after Nor.
folk Navy-Yard, with its Ten Millions worth OF
National property, including Two Thousand
cannon, had been seized by the traitors our
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