The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-27

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HPoace'' on the OOnfederRte naslN.
| The Richmond Enquirer Of the 18th
mat. contains the following editorial
entitled 'Peace, which must profoundly
interest alike the friends aud enemies OF
the country;
Save on our own terms we can accept
no peace whatever, and must fight until
doomsday rather than yield an iota Of
them, and our terms are:
Recognition by the enemy C! the in
dependence of the Confederate States.
Withdrawal Of Yankee forces from
every foot Of Confederate ground, inelu-
ding kentucky and Missouri
Withdrawal Of che Yankee soldiers
from Maryland, until that State shall
decide by free vote whether she will
remain in che old Union, or ask admission
into the Confederaey. te
Consent on the part Of the Federal
Government TO give up to the Confedor-
acy its proportion Of the navy as il stood
at the time Of secession, or to pay for
the same. 81, t.r
fieldi1g up OF all pretension ON the
part OF the Federal Government 20 that
portion Of the old territories which lies
west Of the Confederate States.
An equitable settlement on the basis
OF our absolute independence and equal
rights, Of all accounts Of the public
debt ana public lands, and the advan-
tagss accruing from foreign treaties.
These provisions, we apprebend, COM
prise the minimum of what we must re.
quire before we lay down our arms. That
Is to say, the north must yield alive
nothing. The whole pretension of that
country TO prevent, by force, the separa-
ton Of the States, must be abandoned,
which will be equivalent 10 an aVowal
that our enemies were wrong from the
nrst, and, Of course, rs they waged
causeless and wicked war against US,
they ought, in strict justice, 70 be requi-
red, according TO usage in such cases, 20
reimburse to us the whole of our expen
ses and losses in the course of the war.
Whether this last proviso 10 to be insist
ed upon OF not certain we are, that we
cannot have any peace at all, until we
shall be in position, not only TO demand
and exact, but also TO enforce and coll
lect treasure for our own reimbursement,
out OF the wealthy cities in the euemy's
country. In other words, unless we can
destroy or scatter their armies, and
/ break up their Government, we can have
no peGce, and, If we can do that, then we
ought not only extort from them our full
terms and ample acknowledgment Of
! their wrong, but also, . handsome in
i demnity for the trouble and expense
caused to US by their crime. ~,
Now, we are not yet In position to die
tate those terms to our enemies, with
Rosecrang army still in the heart Of the
count y, and Meade still on Virginia soil;
but though IL is too soon to propose such
conditions to them, yet il is important
that 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 il that blessed peace were TO
come TO us over the sea, and not to be
conquered on our own ground. There
will be no more gaping Tor hints OF re-
cognition, and filing 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.
Il is especially now, at the moment
when great and perhaps decisive battles
are impending ct two or three points, that
we think IL most essential 10 insist upon
the grand aud entire magni1cenoe OF the
stake and cause.
Once more we say il Is oil or nothing.
This Cenfederacy or the Yankee nation,
one or the other, goes down, down 20 per
dition. That ID TO say, one or the other
must forfeit its national existence and
lie at the mercy Of lis mortal enemy,
! "a We all know by this time the fate in
store for us II we succumb, The other
party has no smaller stake.
AS surely as we completely ruin their
armies and without that is no peace nor
truce at all--so surely shall we make
them pay our war debt, though we wiring
IL out of their hearts,. Aud they know
10 well, and, therefore, they cannot make
peace except through their utter ex hAus
tion and absolute inability 70 strike an
other blow. .--. l...... .
The stake they have to forfeit then, II
they lose this dreadful game, is as vital
as ours. SO Is the stake 10 be won il
kncJ win any ththb' ~ 20 Nv ASno. NhAA
The entire possession OF our whole coun
Try, with as in il and every thing that ID
ours, from the Ohio 10 the Rio Grapde, "a
have and 70 hold, 70 them aud their hoirs
forever. ..r..f..
4 But, on the other hand, what we mean
TO win Is utter separation from them foI
all. time, We do not want TO govern theii
country, but after leyYing upon Il wha
seemeth good to US by way OF indemnity
we leave II TO commence It's political lif'
again from the beginning, hoping tina
the lesson may have made them sadde
and wiser Yankees
We shut them out forever, with al
their unclean and scoundrelly ways, in
! tending 10 lead our lives here In our owl
Confederate way, within our own well
. guarded bounds, and without, as 81. JohI
says, are dogs
COTToN DErBROEED. - The Sumte
} (5outh OArolina) Watohman says:
In riding over some twenty five mile
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