Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-04-03

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Can this stabbing and shooting and rending
with shells convince the wrong or reconcile the
angry, or inspire with confidence those that dis
trust. and with friendship those that hate US :?
Will time and habit make subsection acceD ta>
BILE to a proud and sensitive race At this day
Poland, struggling in her chains with hopeless
desperation is answering the question. When
1 I look about me and see this spacious hall sill
4 ed with enlightened gentlemen, clothed with
great power and with great ponsibilities,s |
am amazed that with all this concentration of
intellect upon one subject, no means can be de
vised to accomplish a political end without con
verting the country into shanlples and its peo-
pie into butchers. fesl9s ~7s 4sss7 s
Let the Var be Stopped-Let the North pro,
! : claim for Peace.
| 1t is no time to argue the terms Of AMIGA
| BILE adjustment with the duellest when his fin.
/ ger Is on the trigger he must first be invited
! to lower the instrument of death. The INTEL
| Iect Of our statesmen is now occupied with
war; their natures, mental and moral, are un.
| der the control of that feversh excitement ore-
ated by the contem platicn of the changing for
tunes of desperate and bloody struggle
Grant ,hem an interval of repose; a. respite
from the absolute tyranny that war exerts ov.
er the feelings of mankind, and their thoughts
will revert into natural channel, and will seek
with the patient labor of the brain. From US
as being materially the stronger party, the
proposition for an armstce can come with a
good grace Let wise ahd just men from all
the States assemble i'll convention it then, sir,
no honorable peace can be secured, my faith IN
human rature will have passed away.
] Sir, before that solemn conclave would come
as an advocate, the ghost of the buried year,
with all its mournfuf memories, with its hund.
reds of thousands OF ghostly spectres. with its
record of anguish, bereayemenb and desolatlon
and its warning finger would point to q vision
OF the future, IN semhlance OF Itself, but more
hideous thousand fold ~>&+-ss@ - ~@.sf t@4-F
s While my country groans beneath the stroke
of ner own dagger, .oreswear all allegiance
to party Whatever proposition, in my mind
shall enhance the prospect OF peace shall have
my vote. Peace is the goal OF my poiitical
course the haven of my hopes. | care not by
whose chart | steer or whose hand shall guide
the helm, so that the compass shall point thith
erward. Whosoever. shall raise its standard
shall find me ready to serve beneathlits folds.
Whosoever shall blazen the olive branch for
his device shalt have me his adherent. Ia what
ever shape the demon of destruction shall ap.
pear will oppose him. In whatever garb the
lspiris of Peace shall clothesher radiant form l
will embrace her. Coneilation, Aaompromi Sc,
or separation. each shall be acceptable to me
if as Its consequence We shall be spared the
scourge of war. Let the most jealous eman-
EcIpatlonists suggest o cessation Of hostilities
and [ am with him. Let the stauEchest mem
Der OF the opposition uphold the war, and
am against him. | have no sympathies with
those who des.ounce the administration, and
4 yet call foravigorous hostilities.s - 49, -
/ Let the friends OF peace proclaim themselves
as such. Let them not fear TO be prena ture.
This oay is not one day too soon for their lips
to assert what their hearts know to be true. II
/ the people are ot.prepared, let us commence
the task of preparation. It is a task already
| half accomplished, for indeed the masses. with
their un erring Instincts, have alrea6 fathorned
the depth of this great sea Of troubles. They
would welcome re union 3 fsrs its - own
sake and for the memories of old or, if inev-
table. they would accept Separation with .
| sigh of regret, ands then push ON alone IN the
broad, path of progress for their aaself reliant
Anglo Saxon natures would spurn the timid
doctrine thatthe sturdy North--their, North,
built by their energies, and with millions OF
acres yet unreclaimed from the wilderness for
expansi ion lis dependent on the South for pos
serity and grandeur. -. s.e 50 -
| "A, citizen OF Richmond. called a few days
since at the office of the lSeore.ary of the Treas
ury and hand ed him parcel, to be placed in
the public Treasury on condition that the Sec
retary would not permit the donors name ff,