Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-03-05
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There is in our midst class Of men who
are constantly crying out for peace--the same
class who in the beginning Of our troubles were
most loud in their dcnunciation of coercion,
and who have all along said, the South can
never lie subducd--sa SO, because they don't
want it subducd-thcy arc hostile to the adj
minslration and would rather see the ma
,ional govern inert destroyed and the nation
divided than live under our present glorious
republican institutions controlled by the par
IS now in power. How far this spirit par
takes Of true patriotism is not difficult to tell.
Recently the Illinois Legislature was in
labor with resolutions calling Convention
to matters The New Jersey Legislature
proposed to send commissioners to ask the
. rebels what they will take 20 come back a.
gain. The Indiana Legislature proposed to
"Trip tie patri,tic governor Of that State CT
Lis constitutional power and vest it in the
hands Of set Of "Coprcrheads." And while
this is going Oh among chat very class OF men
who caused the war, the French and Eng
ish newspapers grin across the water and ex-
hort us to give it up? Buy 'em back What
heart but that Of traitor would for an In.
etant entertain such thought? When the
rebels have had enough OF it let them say so
Until then the duty of the Government is
like that Of small Toys in the street when
the policeman appears; it is to move on
ANY proposition Of armistico, negotiation,
ascd, is proposition Of disgrace aud ruin
to the country. The government is main
tanning its authority, nothing more. Every
one will agree that on tho 10th OF April
1861, National Government existed. On
the 18th the authority of that Government
was defed. IT must therefore be maintained
O, surrendered If that authority is over
thrown at one point It falls at all points If
:. is successfully defed in Charleston it ceases
In Chicago If the French Government were
obliged to acknowledge the separate indie
pcndcncc Of any department of France, a
revolution would have been accomplished,
which would radically change the Govern
rncp.. That the truth is as we stIte 1t
would he seen in this that the moment the
'.Confedcracy" were acknowledged, move
ments in various of the remaining
States would begin for the purpose OF etfec-
ting union with the government which bad
proved itself the strongest There is, there
fore. no other ground Of treating with the
rebols than the consciousness that they have
CONQUERED U.S. Then like other victims we
must do the best we can. If they will I'M
iertskc to govern Us, we must pray them to
he as mild as they think we deserve If they
kicl; I'd out Of the "Confederacy' wo must
try to crawl back to it. If they rofuse us
while wo are united, each State mus. singly
p try to Ii. most abi"ctly in the slime, in or
der that the "Confcderacy" may see and be
satisfied not Gully that manliness, honor, and
decency ale utterly extinct in our hearts, but
that we pride ourselves that they are so.
This is the feast to which any kind Of
settler cnt other than total suppression OF
the rebellion by military measure invites us.
This is tho pit whichtlle 'Copperhead con-
scrva.ives' of every shade is digging for the
nation. Better to fight the cause out with
whatever resl:lt Better that Liberty be ut
terly vanquished and cYarthrown by Slavery
than patch up separation, al armistice,
peace. 70 tight il out TO The death shows
liberty TO lie still sodlikc TO try to dodge
and shrink shows her tainted by the devil
with which she is struggling. .,s sfa.
But between tho two essential principles
now contending there can be no truce, for
which ever yields the truce coniesses defeat.
There can be no peace between them, be-
cause the rule of the one is the ruin Of the 9TH
or. Jefferson Davis knows it, and therefore
spi.s upon every proposal Of submission
His course is shrewd but hopeless. There
will 10 but one nation, but one Government,
but onc Union upon Our domain. The con-
.dition Of peace will be absolute obedience to
the lawful supreme national authority. Let
the eravcrs then who arc crying for peace
peace ocn any terms, learn that the loyal
heart Of this,conntry will have peace on nc
other terms than those Of absolute subms-
aion upon the part Of the traitors.
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