The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-03-28
From the Richmond Enquirer, March 3.
The Richmond Enquirer on Peace.

Our printers set THIS article up from
an uncut copy of the Richmond Enquiy-
er, which can be seen by the curious at
this office-EDs Com
From of old it was held perilous for
men to cry peace! peacel when there
was no peace. The danger of it for US
at this moment, are manifold. 1t en-
courages the planting of cotton instead
of corn; it unsettles the minds of our
soldiers in the field which is demoraliza-
tion; it stimulates the enemy to more
vigorous prosecution of the war, by the
idea that ace are so tired of it.
There are some who reproach the En-
quirer with being an advocate of war,
and not of peace. This is somewhat un-
reasonable Is any one offering US
peace? Look round our whole horizon
-achere is it, on sea or land, that you
discern any faintest futter of the white
wingsY 1t is all war; all one bottom
less gulf of blood, one universal carnival
of slaughter, and ravage and ruin.
True, there is one way by which the
Southern Confederates could Immediate
" regain all the blessings of peace; it is
by submission-by reconstruction-by
desisting from the rebellion" and de-
livering up our ring-leaders to the pun
ishment of the laws they have trampled
upon. Is there, indeed, one single citi-
zen of this Confederacy who would have
peace at any price? Well, here is the
price; say at once-are we to pay it.
But the symptoms of breach between
the East and Northwest! May not they
be managed and turned to account, per-
haps? Why 'reper' the Northwest by
harsh and cutting language2 Truely, we
admit that language is very inadequate
weapon against those armed and brutal
invaders; they would never be ''repelled'
by vituperative epithets; and all the bay
Onets and colum bads we can muster are
scarcely enough to repel the brigands.
But let US hel lp and encourage, you say,
their intestine divisions. Yes we are
willing; in the way we gave rise to
those divisions at first, we wish to en-
courage them now. That is to say, by
desperate resistance and defiance.
To be plain, we fear and distrust far
more these apparently friendly advances
of the Democrats, than the open atrocity
of philanthropists Of Massachusetts.
That Democratic party always was our
worst enemy; and but for its poisonous
embrace these States would have been
free and clear of the unnatural Union
twenty years ago. 1t is not the Stewards
and Summers, the Black Republicans
and Abolitionsts, who have hurt u.s.
They were right all along; there acas an
irrepressible conflict; between two differ
ent civilizations, two opposite social Or
ganizations they we're no more able to
live peaceably together in one govern
ment than two hands can wear one glove
If we did not discover so soon as the
Abolitionists, this great truth, it was be-
cause the Democratic party, neutral as
it was in principle, false to both sides
and wholly Indifferent to the morale Of
either of the opposing communities, placed
iteon botvvoon, raioed the banner o1
"spoils," and-we all know the rest
The idea of that odious party coming tc
life again, and holding out its arms to
us, makes US shiver. Its foul breath is
malaria its touch is death
Give us the open foeman; let him be
as ferocious and greedy as you will Le
our enemy appear as an exterminating
Yankee host, we pray, and not as Dem
ocratic Convention Let him take any
shape but that! Already we have vision!
of the men Of feeble knees, tender fee
and undulating spines losing their sense
and manhood by the contact, as they
did, alasl so often before We seen
from afar off the old dead compromises
ddsit omen! and seem to feel upon ou
throats the strangulation of unclean fin
gers. But it is dream; nobody live
in this Confederacy who will dare to pro
pose, or to hint even at a distance, tha
we should sacrifice at that aboninabl
shrine all the gallant blood freely pouret
out to sanctify our nationhood. For
comes to this: we can have no peac
now, save by submission; no peace nov
= save by making once more an atfiliatiol
,, with Northern party, and making tn
Democracy q present of all that lnest
. mable treasure of the dearest blood tha
flowed in Southern veins
Peacel Does the monstrous host be
> fore Vicksburg bring US peace? Is
, peace that Rosecrans is making in Ter
-nessee? Does the military dispersion G
public meetings in Kentucky bode peace
: The new Northern conscription, enrol
i ing three millions, and making provi:
9 ions for instantly commanding their sel
vice. or exacting heavy exemption ia:
: does this look like peace? The deht
crate vesting in Abraham Lincoln of a
the military power of dictator, with th