, 1863-06-24
s0EfETKlkC FOR CO?pERAEADs.
What the Eiehmond Organ Of tic Canfeleracy
says---lt Spits upou Peace and Reunion
Platforms.
Rebel Views Of Northern Copperhaads and
Peace Movements, =;
[From the Richmond Enquirer, June 1G.I
TWO YEARS uFSCE

From the Richmond Enquirer, June 1C,1
TWO YEARS HENCE. ~:
In two years, as many persons hope, we
videa, nc continue to repulse and defeat the
invading enemy, The Yankee "Democracy''
is certainly rousing itself aud preparing f;,r a
new struggle lat the ballot box) in the great
cause Of the s'spoils," or, as they call it. the
cause Of Constitutional liberty. Those Dem
platform for their next Presidential election !;
and Il they have the good luck to be helped
On and sustained by more and more serious
dtsasters OF the Yankee army in the field there
Is no doubt that the present deyourers Of the
said epoils at Washington, may soon be SO dis-
would be ripe for such peaceful ballot box
revolution. ~. s.: -
+. 1t Is sincerely to 10 hoped that those
earnest champions Of Constitutional freedom
will be helped On and Sustained in the manner
they require namely, by continued and se-
we're reyerses in the field, and itis the first aud
most urgent duty Of our countrymen 70
Ae!g end sustain that Democratic party: 1t il
nothing to Us which Of their factions may de-
Tcnr their 4tspoils !" just a. little does it sig
mfg to us whether they recover Or do not re-
cover that constitutional liberty which they
go Eaptonly threw away in the mad pursuit
OF southern conquest and plumber. But it is
OF the utmost Importance to us to aid in
stimulating dtsq6eefioa: among Va.kees against
Mttr o4e7' goeeTnDaent, and in de1nora1izing and
disintegrating society in that God abandoned
country We can do this only in one way
namely, BY thrashiDg their armies aud carry
ing the war to their own dre5ldcs. Then, In
deed, conscientious constitutional principles
VII hold sway; peace platforms will look
attractive; arbitrary arrests will become odi-
Gus, and hab<as corpus be quoted at q pre-
MUM. This ia the only way nc can help
them+ In this sense and TO- this extent,
those Democrats are truly our allies, and ne
shall endeasor to do our duty By them.
But they evidently look for other: and fur
ent sort. No doubt they are pleased for the
present with the efficient MD which the Con
1ederate army il afo.dfng them. Chancel-
1orsyllle was Godsenl to them; and the tre-
mendous- 1epulse at Port Hudson is quite
plank In their platform YET they under
their armies may be happily beaten no mat
ter how completely Incoln's present war
policy may be condemned by its results, yet
Ill this will not be enough to enable the I'M
terrified Democracy to clutch the "spoils"-
or, as they phrase it, to restore the eonstitn.
tien Of their fathers.. This, Of ITSELF would
never give them peace Democrat President
and Cabinet; it would only result in another
abolitionist administration, with new Sec
retaIy of.War and new Commander-fn. Chief,
und slightly different programme for "crush-
ing the rebellion Those black Republicans
are in power, after long :waiting, pining, in
tricuing in the cold shade of the opposition,
and they have now the numerical preponder-
ance SO decidedly that they both can and will
hold on to the office with 8 clutch like death.
The democrats can do absolutely nothing
without "the South" as they persist ii
terming these Confederate States; aud they
cannot bring themselves to admit tho thought
that We would refuse to unite with them (as
alas1 we used to- do) In grand universal
Presidential campaign, for democratic Pres
ident with 8 peace platform, and the scon-
stitutiou as It is". In fact, this whole two
years. war, and the two years. more war which
hns yet to be gone through, is itself, In their
eyes, only Presidential campaign, only some
what more yiyacious than ordinary.
This explains the Vallandigham peace meet
ings in New York and New Jersey, and the
"n>anly declarations" Of Mf. Horatio seY-
mour and other patrlots. "Donot let Us f5r-
get" eays Fernando Wood, writing to tho
Philadelphia meeting, 'sthat those who per
spetrate such outIages as the arrest and ban
ishmcnt Of Mr.. Vallandigham do 10 as neces.
sary var measures Let Us, therefore, strike
At the cause, and declare for peace aud against
the war"
This would sound very well If the said de
claring for peace" could have any effect
NhsteYer IN bringing about posee. II MAN