New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-31
PEACR PROPORTIONS.

Mr.. Leach'S pacific resolutions, offered IN the
Rebel Conclaye, came TO the grief Of lean aud
ridiculous minority. we cannot, much as we
dislike war, say that we are sorry for this; be-
cause We think both sides well arrived AZ that
grim condition in which il will be found best 10
indulge in as little lying as may be found con-
yenient. Now Mr. Leach. especially if he have
q good appetite, which his name would seem
to indicate, may not only be exceedingly sick
Of this war, but, for prudent reasons, DESTROYS of
keeping upon tolerable terms with those who
are not 80 sick a. he is; but, for all this, he has
no right 10 ialsify history, while he gracefully
waves his olive branches. There is q great deal
Of CANNON in his " Whereas"-more, in fact,
than is usually found in such pothering pre-
liminaries, which we should have thought
quito unnecessary. According TO the Leach
"whereas this bloody Rebellion was occa-
stoned by 90 the unconstitutional enactment Of
laws by the Congress Of the United States
This is another specimen OF the loose way IN
which the Secession logicians talk. The asser-
ton can be refutcd in a great variety of ways,
if thought worth refutng at ALL Suppose some
oath could be invented which this Mr. Leach,
however hungry, would feel bound TO re-
spect. Suppose that oath TO be duly admin
istered. Suppose Mr. Leach, under the
pressure OF its sanction, solemnly in
terrogatcd, and requested TO repeat by their
titles those laws, the passage OF which re-
duced whole States to q condition of epidemic
felony We arc glad TO get any reason for this
instruction, which has heretofore struck us rs
about the most williully wicked since Lncifer
made similar disturbance in iIcaven-but for
the credit of human nature, we are sorry TO get
so bad reason after all. OF legislation since
the Rebelions outbreak we say nOthing-t is
of the legislation which caused it that this Mr..
Leach is talking. What was itl What did the
Shareholders ask for which they did not get
We let them into the Territories upon terms Of
their own proposal. We caught their fugitive
property for them when We could. They had
President than whom no human being
could have been more devoted III licking
their feet. They had unlimited credit upon
our commercial books, and carried Off great
quantities of goods which they have never
paid us for. But why deliberately set forth par
ticulars' What was grievance when South
Carolina led of in this death-dance was a
grievance long before, when she did not stir
so much as a single stump Mr.. Leach knows,
quite as well as we do, that the only possible
excuse for this extemporized Confederacy was a
fright discreditable Ia Southern courage. He
knows that the DULLES Of Slavery were afraid
to give the Lincoln Administration chance To
show that it meant 10 be true tn all its c0nstitu-
tutionol obligations. He knows that the UNI
grateful Democrats of the plantations repaid
the scrvilc friendship of Mr.. Buchanan by
forcing the stain of Secession upon the closing
annals Of his own unfortunate administration.
He knows, and all the world knows, that the
wrongs Of the Slave States, as they themselves
considered them, were too trivial to be solcmnly
put upon official record, and never have been
put there, down 10 the day when the Confcder.
ate Congress tabled even Mr.. Leach's meager
summary. lie knows that il the shareholders