The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-01-27
Peace and Union.

must prove failure, and while, in con-
sequence, claiming that it is the duty OF
the government TO make peace, still keep
up their pretensions of devotion to the
Union rs it was, and the Constitution
as il is" They would have US believe
that if the war was stopped, our armies
called home, and the rebels allowed quiet
possession Of their territory-the border
= s,s.ses ;s.aluied- Il at than thu Union
might b. restored, the Constitution pre-
served, and the country saved. All the
efforts Of FERNANDO WooD, VALLAND1G
HAM, BRooKs, JonN VAN buren,, etc, to
lift the hand of the government from off
the necks Of the traitors, have prolesseIly
the object TO bring back reunion under
the old constitution. A few of the more
ultra, more yindictive, tories, such as
DENNIS MAHoNY, Story of the Chicago
Times, SUNSET Cox, &c, are, we know.
looking to reconstruction under the
Montgomery constitution, with the New
England States kicked out. But that is a
scheme that they scarcely do more than
whisper or insinuate. which the people,
with indignant unanimity, would repudi
ate, and which can never gain strength
to make it worthy Of regard. The main
rretension is, that by stopping the war,
and putting the government into the
hands Of the Democratic party, which is
known by the South to be friendly TO it
that by this course former friendly
feelings will be revived, and the old
Union and the old Constitution restored
unimpaired. And many honest, loyal
Democrats, permitting themselves to be
biased by party feeling and party sympa
thy, are swallowing the argument and
supporting the absurd pretension.
We should like any one of these Peace
and Union preteDders to point TO. the
least particle OF evidence which they
have. that in case of the suspension Of
hoslilities, the rebels would return to
teir allie glance 10 tie old Constitution
and the old Union. Has there ever been
such evidence offered ? Has the rebel
government-has any considerable por-
ton of the people OF the rebel confcdera-
cy-ever indicated their willingness to
again come back into the Union through
the mediumship Of any compromise mea
sures that might be offered TO say
nothing about the old Constitution, is
theIe any evidence that reunion, unen-
forced, could ever take place, even
should we offer additional constitutional
guarantees and immunilies to slavery q
What has been the reply to B1oLER and
WooDs and VALLANDIGHAM and Books.
by the R~bel organs, respecting their
propositions Of peace and reunion ?
Have !her propositions, full Of concess-
ions spoken and implied, drawn a word
of sympathy from The men before whom
they are thus groyeling in the dirt p
Not one syllable Of assent have they
drawn from rebellion-not one breath OF
anything but scorn for their authors,
have lie propositions extracted from tie
ranks Of treason in the confederacy. Hear
what JEFF DAVIS said at Jackson, Miss |
i,sippi. bat few days since:
AFTER what has happened during the last
two years, my only wonder is that we consent
ed to live for so long a time in association with |
such miscreants, and have loved SO much n !
Government rotten TO the core. Were it eyerto
be proposed again to enter into a Union with
such people, | could no more consent to do il
than to trust myselfin den Of thieves"
Listen TO the Governor of Virginia
"The alliance between us is dissolved, new.
tr ] trust. to be renewed at any time or under
any conceivable state or circumstances"
Read what the Richmond Enquirer of
OF the Oh inst. has 10 say:
"Sepnration is inevitable war has failed to |
prevent II peace cannot stop it. An armistice
with propositions fer reconstruction by cousti !
tational amendments Of conventions Of States |
would very soon reveal the fact that separation |
was final, and, as far ne one generation can
speak fer is Successors, it is eternal"
Read What the Richmond Dispatch
Las 10 say 10 the Brooks Peace PROPOSE
tons
Nh Brooks tells bis friends that some Euro
pean monarchy will take advantage Of the las
situdc consequent upon the powerful exertioas
both sections are making, and conquer them
both. In return, measure him that the peo.
pie of these Confederate States would ,nfnite,
" Prefer being the vassals of France or Eng
land--nay, they would prefer being serfs Of
Russia--to becoming in any manner whatever
associated, politically or otherwise with the
Northern States. To any other than that they
ale prepared to submit, if it should please God
40 to order it, But to a reunion with the Vile
brood that is seeking their destruction they
will never submit on any terms which il is LOS
aib.e for tie ingenuity Of man 10 devise, or
sven 10 imagine. Ii The whole Yankee race 1
should fall down in the dust tomorrow and
|gay us 10 be their masters, we would sparn I
them even as slaves. Our only wish is to be I
separated from them, finally and forevCr-ney-
'r 10 sec the face Of one Of them again-never 10
,ear TIE solcc Of another Yankee on the south =
ide q the Potomac, or the north--to have no
rattle nd no intercourse d! INV Gpscrir.tior \