The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-09-28

nomination candidates for President and
Vice President" In its leader of the same
day, the News says: #pits,,5s - I
But these advocates of peace are welded
to principle which goes side by side with.
and is inseparable from, their devotion to
the Union. the great principle Of self-go-
yernment. the consecrated American prin-
ciple that all legitimate government is de-
rived from the, consen, of the governed.
Resting upon, this, which they believe TO
be the historical cornerstone Of their free
institutions. they believe the idea of a
Uniun brought about BY, force to be, in
trinsically, proaigate absurdi:y. They
believe that war can never rebuild the
blessed fabric raised for us by our fathers,
which the bloody hands, or fanatcism and
violence have already shattered into ruins.
They believe that we cannot fight free
men into loving US; that we cannot slaugh-
ter and trample them into brotherhood with
, US; and that, even if we could, we should
be immeasurabiy more infamous than they.
The Peace Democracy believe, further,
that the armed coercion Of States is con-
Istitutional heresy, and that 4 1t cannot be
Ec6nsumma,ed without striking vital blow
at the first principles Of theaFederal com
pact, and consolidating despotism at
washington instead of the benignant and
ffimited power which was meant u foster
The peaceiuIunion Of happy and consenting
Estates. hef hs G4
These conditions, as an organ Of the
Peace Democracy, the Daily News has me-
lyer ceased to spromuisate and defend.
They are the solemn creed Of good men
land true for whom it speaks. Every event
Of the cursed war which is upon us has il
Illustrated and con6rmed their truth, and il
the U5rid and its co-relisioHists in blood
bad dedicated themselves to the support O.
such principles. Instead of scattering the
internal seeds of barbsrity and hate, W,
should not row be at the melancholy poin
, ! where the Democratic party aud its candi-
date are disputIng, with abolition and il 4
representative, the palm of devotion to a
policy of determination. We use this Ian
gaage deliberately and advisedly. Gen
1 McClellan's words and purposes cam OF b.
mistaken or misunderstood. After seem
7 ing to, "exhaust the resources Of. states
.lmanship" 70 re-establish the Union, h
!. says;l,s. + - 6,eIl .sf
If frank. earnest and persistent effort to obtai
these objects should fail the responsibility for utter
Or consequences viii fall upon those who remain il
arfns.asa The Union. But the Union must b
preserved a, all hazards"
TO what " "ulterior consequences doe
he aliude, and what haZards!' He mean
war. aud no honest man will pretend tha
he means ANYTHING else. II he had beer
frank. he wUuld have used the word. I'll
means that it he cannot reconstruct tn
Union by Iegotiation-nav, more, 10 us
his own language in another part Of th
letter, is the people Of the South are,no
ready for peace on the basis OF the Uni
on > as coHdition precedent to negotia
tion--the consequences will be on thei
own heads, and he will make war ON then
until they yield. They may have solemn
ly declared by State Conventions, or other
wise, that they will not re-enter into
common government with us; the peepl
NAV be as fixed and unanimous as thei
= leaders; they NAV have resolved TO hav
!, independence or death, as Mr.. Davis ha
!, recently declared; still. Gen. McC Clelian
pledged to overthrow their resolves BY fl
and sword. He is pledged 10 fight an
!, slay them Till they surrender the principl
Y of choosing their own form Of government
He is pledged to an interminable strife
!, there is permanent resistance. He
! pledged to carnage and devastatisn--to al
the appliances Of ruin and overthrow whic
: are within the hazards" and curses I,
: civil conflict. He has no fixed point bu
= Union, at which he will stay the tide /
blood.
To a policy so wicked. so inhuma nj
e absurd, we cannot, nor can any Peace De
mocrat, subscribe without renegading fro