Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-11-04
The Rebel Peace Bssis.---Terms Proposed by
rs- ~ Jeff Davis: fsyuan.s~z-- Ss :

From the Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 1oth.I
Save on our own terms, we can accept n.
/ peace whatever, and must balt I'll dooa.sdal
! rather than yield iota of them and ou1
/ terms are
/ Recognition by the enemy of the indepen
/ dence of the Confederate States
/ Withdrawal of the Yankee forces from ev.
cry foot of Confederate ground, Including
hzltuchy and Hissoatll.
Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from,
Maryland, until that state shall decide bv a
free vote whether she shall remain in the old
Union or ask admission into the Confederacv.
Consent on the part of the Federal Gov
eminent to give up TO the Confederacy It's
proportion Of tie NARY, as it stood at the time
OF secession, to pay for the same
Yielding up of all pretensions on the part
of the Federal Government of that por-
ton of the old Territories which lies lcest of
tie Confederate States.
An equitable settlement, on the basis of our
absolute independence and equal rights, of
all accounts of the public debt and public
lands, and the advantages accruing from for
eign treaties.
The provisions, we apprehend, comprise
the minimum Of what tive must require before
We lay down our arms; that is TO saw the
North must yield all, we nothing. The whole
pretension of that country to prevent by
force the separation of The States must be
abandoned, which will be equivalent TO an
aVowal that our enemies were wrong from
the first, and, Of course, as they waged
causeless and wicked war upon US, they
ought in strict justice to be required, accor-
ding to usages in such cases, to reimburse to
Us the whole Of our expenses and losses in
the course Of that war. Whether this last
proyiso is TO be insisted upon or not certain
we are that we cannot have any peace at all
until we shall be II position not only to de-
mand an exact, but also to enforce and col
lect treasure for our own reimbursement out
of the wealthy cities in the enemy's country
In other words, unless can destroy or
scatter their armies, and break up their Gov
eminent, we can have no peace; and if we
do that, then we ought not only to extort
from them our own full terms and ample ac-
acknowledgements of their wrong, bit also a
handsome ledennity for the trouble and expense
caused to US by their cFjnse.
Now, we are not vet in position to dictate
those terms TO our enemies, with RoSecrans'
army still in the heart of our country, and
Meade still on the Virginia soil; but though
II IS too soon to propose such conditions to
them, yet 1t is important thai we should keep
them plainly before our own eyes as the only
admissible basis of any conceivable peace.
This well fixed in the Confederate mind, there
Will be no more fearful looking for news from
Europe, as if that blessed peace were TO
come to Us over the sea, and not to be con-
quered on our own ground. There viii be
no more gaping for hints of recognition and
filling Of the belly with the east wind no
more distraction or diversion from the single
momentous business of bracing up every nerve
and sinew of the country for battle
1t is especially now, at the moment when
great and perhaps decisive battles are i'm
~, l.. Il
it most essential TO insist upon the grand and
entire magnifcence of the stake and cause
Once more we say it is all or nothing.
This Confederacy or the Yankee nation, one
or other, goes down, down to perdition. That
is to say, tie otteT must forfeit its nathan
al erjstence, and lie at tie mercy Of It's mortal en-
eng.
We all know by this time the fate in store
for us, if we succumb. Tile Other po1ty hos
no smaller stake
As surely as we completely ruin their ar
without that is no peace or truce
at also surely shall we make thens Tag oar
seoT de5t, though re 1m'6lo 1t ont of their hearts
And they know it WELL and therefore, they
cannot make peace except through their ut
ter exhaustion and absolute inability to strike
another blow.
The stake they have to forfeit, then, if they
lose this dreadful game, is as vital as ours.
So is the stake to be won, if they win any
thing. 1t is no less than the entire posses
sion of our whole country, with Us in it, and
everything that is ours, from Ohio TO the Rio
Grande, to have and to hold, to them and
their heirs foreye.
But, on the other hand, what we mean to
win is utter separation from them TO; all time.
We do not want to govern their country, but,
after Iegying upon 1t 1obat Seejneh g21d 10 as By
,ray of indemnity, we leave it to commence its
political life again from the beginning. hoping
that the lesson may have made them sadder
and wiser Yankees.
We shut them out forever, with all their
unc7ean and scousdreLly ways intending to lead
our lives here in our own Confederate way,
within our own well guarded bounds, and
without, as st. John says, are dogs.
And let no Confederate feeble-knees and
tremulous backbone say to US, this complete
triumph is impossible say that we must be
content with some kind of compromise, and
give and take; on the contrary, are mast gain
al or lose all, and that the Confederates will
indeed win the giant game, we take to be as
certain as any future event in this uncertain
world.
Meades army and Rosecrans' once scatter
ed, Lincoln can get no more armies. The
draft turns out manifestly fruitless. Both the
German and Irish element are now for peace.
The Yankees have to bear the brunt of the
war themselves, but in the meantime their
inevitable bankruptcy is advancing like
armed man. Hungry ruin has them in the
wind. 1t cannot be long before the Cabinet
at Washington will have, indeed, to consider
seriously proposals for peace, under auspices
and circumstances very different from the
present. For the present the war rolls and
thunders on, and may God defend the right.
DEATH or LORD LYNDHURsT.-The last steam
er from Europe brings intelligence of the
death of John Singleton CopIey, Lord Lynd-
hurst, the distinguished jurist and statesman.
\ of the famous self-educated artist Cop
ley, he was born in Boston, Mass, in 1872,
and in his third year removed to England.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cam
bridge, and received the highest honors of
the university. Soon after he revisited
America, returning to England in 1898 to
prepare for the practice Of the law, which he
commenced in 1904, and slowly but surely