Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-08-11
The Late Peace Negotiations.

PEACE DANGEROUS SUBJECT TO REBEL
LEADERS-TREPIDATION OF THE RICH
MoNp ExAMINER-IT WON'T DO TO HINT
AT pEACE-THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE ONLY
TOO ANXIOUS FOR IT-A HOLLOW GRAVE
YARD LAUGH.
(From the Richmond Examiner, July 2e
For the first time we have the pleasure
of heartily approving State paper OF
Abraham Lincoln. tits his letter addressed
TO Whom it may Concern" 1t concerns
Messrs. Holcombe, G. c. Clay and George
N. Sanders, and, we would tondly believe,
no other person or persons whomsoever.
When officious individuals so creeping round
by back doors, asking interviews, with
LINCOLN for "a full interchange of senti-
ments," it gives us sincere qualification to
see them spurned, yes kicked, from the said
back door. To Abraham we deliberately
say Bravo" or, ,ifhe likes it better "Bully!.
Think Of an ex-senator from Alabama, and
Virginian Member Of Congress-for we
say nothing Of the third ''negotiator'-.
exposing themselves gratuitously, idly and
unbidden to receive such an ignomlnious
rebuff at the hands of the truculent buftoon
of Illinois. ....-
The eccentric procedure ofthose twogentle-
men has all the air of device of the ingeni-
Gus Sanders. He it was who, finding Mr.. Clay
and Mr.. Ho!combe travelling in Canada for
their health and sojourning at the Clifton
House, bethought him Of getting them into a
correspondence about peace; and it was he
who opened it himself by letter to no less a
person than that sanguinary philanthropist
Horace Greeley, asking hiin fGresleyl to
procure o safe conduct for the PARTY to
Washington, and thence to Richmond. II
appears that Greeley, at first thinking this
was real embassy to offer Submission,
eagerly promised the safe conduct inthe
Presidents name. They replied they were
not exactly and altogether plenipotentiaries:
but had no doubt that ''if the circumstances
disclosed in the correspondents" were
communicated to Richmond, they or some
body else would be invested with full powers
And what were the circumstances disclosed
We learn this from long letter of Messrs
Clay and Holcombe, written after thel
repulse. The circumstances disclosed wert
nothing in the world except Greeley
unauthorized offer Of safe conduct. The!
say-and in reading what they say. remem
ber that it is two eminent Confederate
gentlemen addressing patry abolitionis
5 editor, not having the presumption to writ
q to the Emperor Abraham himself."exact
inc no conditions but that we should be dul
| aCCrGQlLGu ltioHmOuu UcoioiS
n propositions looking to the establishment Q
peace, thus proposing basis for confer
!. ence as comprehensive as VIC could desire,
d seemed to us that the President opened
door that had previously been closed agains
the Confederate States for afull interchang
e Of sentiments, free discussion Of cohflctin
opinions and an untrammelled effort
remove all causes OF controversy by liberi
I. negotiations" What right had they 4
b even allude to propositions looking to th
,. establishment OF peace2 Whocommissione
: them to interchange sentiments with lincolI
,, And what do they mean by cause OF eontr
% versy aad liberal negotiations2 If ths'
oficious gentlemen had been reeeiyed
Washington, and had been accredited fro
lr Richmond, we should have felt very nervo1
ON the subject of those liberal negotiation
2 However, LincelB 80 soon as hewas inform'
e, there were such people looking about th
~ door, surmising that il was now partly ope
:! though previously closed" and psrleyiI
" with New York editor in the hope
at getting admittancs7-shut up the5dosrl nj