Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1864-09-08

five hundred thousand more men, and
can't see how you can resist much longer;
bat if YOU do you will only deepen the
the radical feeling af the Northern peo-
pie. They Will now give you fair, no u
cradle. geneous, terms; but let them suffer
much more-let there be a dead man in
every house, as there is now in every
village-they will give you no terms; they
will insist on hanging every rebel south
Of. Pardon my terms. Imean no
offence"
You give 10 offence" ]" he replied very
leesanty. l wouldn't have you pick
9Esords. This is a frahk, free talks
and like you the better for saying what
you think. 90 on"
Il was merely going TO say, thatlet the
Northern people once really feel the
war-ihey do not really feel II yet-and
they will insist on hanging every one Of
your leaders,"
We'll, admitting all you say, cant
see how it affects our position. There
are something's worse than hanging or
determination. We reckon giving up
our right 10 self government one Of these
things"
by self government. you mean dis
union-Soulhern independence"
YES"
"And slavery, you say, is no longer
an element in the contest"
"No, il is not; itnever was an essential
element. 1t was only means Of bring
ing other conflicting elements into an
earlier culminations. 1t fired The musket
that was already capped and loaded
! There are essential differences between
the North and South, that will, however
this war may end, make them two
nations"
You asked me TO say what l think.
VIII you allow me to say that | know
the South pretty well, and l never OBJ
served those differeces."
Then you have not used your eyes.
Ny sight is poorer than yours, but /
have seen them for years"
The laugh was upon me, and Mr..
Benjamin enjoyed it.
"WelI, sir, be that as it may, if / IN.
derz,apl you, the dispute between your
Government aud ours, is narrowed down
TO this: Union or Disunion."
Eyes, orto put it in other words: hide
pendence orsubjugation'"
Then the TWO Governments are ire
vocabIy apart. They have no alterea-
tive hui to fight it out. But it is not 50.
with the people. They are tired of fight
. ing and want peace; and as they bear all
the burden and suffering Of the war, is ii
not right that they should have peace
and have il too On such principles as they
llke?"
i dent understand you. Be a little
mere explicit"
"WeiI suppose tie Two Governments
should agree to something like this: To
60 to the people with two propositions,
say, peace with disuuion and Southern
ind dependence, as your position-and peace
withl Union, emancipation, no confsca.
tion aud universal amnesty. as ours
/ Let the citizens of all the United States
Gas they existed before the wary vote,
; Yes or No On these two propositions
= at a special election within sixty days.
: If a majority vote disunion, our Govern
ment 10 be bound by It, and let you go il
peace. If a majority vete Union, your
Governmental be bound by it, and stay
in peece. Tb0 two Governments can
contract in this way, and the people
: though consIilulionally unable TO decide
on peace or war, can elect which Of the
two propositions shall govern their rul.
: ers. Let Lee and Grant, meanwhile,
agree to an armistice. This would sheathe
the sword, and once shealhee it would
never again be drawn by this genera.
: ton"
= The plants altogeather inpracticable
If we were only one State it might work
but as il is, if one Southern State object
ed to emancipation, it would nullify the
Q whole thing; for as you are aware the
people Of Virginia cannot vote slavery on
Of South Carolina, nor the people of South
Carolina vote it out of Virginia"
4 but three-fourlhs of the States car
! amend the Constitution. Let tt be done
in that way; in any way, SO that i
be done By the peopld. I am not a states.
man, and no politician, and | don't know
just how the plan could be carried out
= but you get The idea, that the people are
$ to decide the question"
THAT the majority shall decide it, YOU
mean. We seeded to rid ourselves Of
The rule Of the majority, and this would
D setject Us to it again"
e But the majority must rule finally