Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-01-29
The Question of Peace-What the Reb-
els say.

The Question of Peace-What the Reb-
els Say.
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 10Th
inst, has ali article On the recent peace
propositions of Mr. JAMES Brooks, of New
York, and other similar proposals by
Northern men. 1t says:
Are the Northern people all natural-born fools,
or are they only stricken with that judicial mad
ness which told thu gods always intlict upon
the victims of their wrath preparatory to their ru
int Can they suppose that the South is as galless
and Ay-Ii0ered as Men1seLoes, and that they are
willing, for mere considerations of interest," to for
get the unheard-of outrages under which they
have suffered during this war? Can they believe
them capable of burying in oblivion all that
they have done, and al that they have suffered!
If the aohole Yankee race should fail doaon in the
duSt to-morrta and pray as to be their masters, zoe
could spWrn them er8n as stdUes. Our only wish is
to be separated from them finally and forever
never O see the face of one of them again-never
to hear the voice of another Yankee On the south
side of the Potomac or the north-to have no
traffic and no intercourse OF any description what
ever with them. We are fighting for separation,
and aoiU haze 1t, If it cost the lite Of every man
an the Confederate States.
We aware that many persons believe that the
party of which Brooks and Van Buren, are reprl-
sentatves, oesre and design to restore peace, and
that at present they dare not speak out their real
sentiments, which are in favor OF separation. We
do not believe they are in favor of any such thing
They e0oad like peace on condition Of our return to
the mon, ana they fools enough TO believe that
q naDj0:ity tf the people in the C0nfeder1cy are in
fuuor of re-und0n They would like peace ON these
terms, because it would restore the commercial
premacy of the North, and especially OF the City Of
New York which is gone forever IL the Union be
not restored. But they are as bitterly opposed to
separation Lincoln himself, any of the thieves
and murderers who lead his armies. In the event
of refusal to return to the Unien, they would, to
man, unite in bounding on the assassins who
desolatng our country and numbering our people
fiercely they have ever been bounded on by
Beecher and Hale. They look only to tiedr pockets
hen they preach f7econciI. alton and reStOrdti01
If the same object could be effected by entirely de-
stroying the people of the Southern States, and
they thought it easy to do, they would recon-
mend the best OF all possible policy Let them
be satisfied, however. President Daols oppressed
the sentiment of the entire COnfcderacy, in has speech
The Other Might aUhea he said the people sooutd soon
er 1zite a0it0 nation Of hyends than ooath the de-
tested and detesta6ta Yunkee Nation. Anything
but that. EngLeSh colonization. Fre7ach 0aSSdtdge
Russian SeTfdOn oil, all are preferable to any as
Sociation o05th the YunkeeS-
The Augusta (Ga) Constitutiona5ist, on
the same subject expresses the opinion
that the rebellion has no more hope from
the Northwest than from the East. 1t says
that the West furnished its foil quota ana
warred on the South with as much
ferocity and venom" as their vile Yam
kee brethren of the East" This is very
sensible view for a rebel to take. The
West, with the exception of the Southern
portions of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is
almost exclr sivelg inhabited by those of
New England birth or New Eogland de-
scent, who hate treason and love the Union
as ardently as the most incorrigible Yam
kee Of Massachusetts.
TRUTHFUL SENTIMENTS FoRoIBLY Ex-
PREssED.-The principles of Jefferson are
the definitions and a1iomS of free society.
And yet they are denied and evaded with
no small show of success. One dasbngiy
calls them ''glittering generaities.'
Another bluntly styles them " self-evident
lies." And Others insidiously argue that
they only apply to ''superior races"
These expressions, differing in form, are
Identical in object and etfect-the sup
planting the principles Of free government
and restoring those of classification, caste,
and legitimacy. They would delight
convocation of crowned heads plotting
against the people. They are he van
guard, the sappers and miners, OF returning
despotism. We must repulse them, OR they
will subjugate Us. This is a world OF com
pensations; and he who would be no slave
must consent to haze no slave. Those
who deny freedom to Others deserve it not
for themselves; and, under just God,
cannot long retain it.-A6rahans Lincoln
in 1859.
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF Col.
MURPHY The Mobile Register has an &C.
count of the surprise and capture cf Holly
Springs by the rebels, il which the follow
ing occurs:
One lady said, that the federal com
mandant of the post is in my house; come
and catch him ;" and a search vas iusti-
tuted, but without success, when the noble
woman insisted that he was there, con
cealed; and finally, after much ado, tie
qazzant isaac the mark,) Colonel Murphy,
the intr pid Yankee conanaandant Of Holly
Spring.. aoas pulled out from u7adsr his bed
and pr esented himself in has Nocturnal ha-
biijments to has captors.