Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1864-08-20
Rebel view OF the Peace Negotiations.

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For the first time we have the pleasure
of heartily approving state paper OF
Abraham hincolu. IL is his letter address
ed to +" To whom IL may concern" II
concerns Messrs. ifolcombe, G. O. Clay
and Geo. N Sanders, aud we would fondly
believe no other person whomsoeyer.--
When officious individuals 60 creeping
round by back doors, asking Interviews
with Lincoln for full Interchange Of sen
timents,' |. gives us sincere qualification TO
see them sporned, yes kicked, from the said
back door, TO Abraham we deliberately
soy Bravo or if elike it better, Bully!
Think of an oes senator from Alabams, and
a1Virginan member OF Gong ess--for we
say nothing of tile third negotiator-expos-
ing themselves grstuitously, idle and uubid-
den, 10 receive such an ignominious rebuff
at the hands of the truculent buffoon OF
Illinois. 3sI4a3FlA W3a
The eccentric procedure of these two
gentlemen has all tbe air o! a device of the
ingenious Sanders He it was who. fiuding
Mt. Clay and Mr.. Holcombe, travelling in
Canada for their health, and scjourning at
the Clifton House, b, thought hi IL Of getting
them into correspondence about peace; !;
and 1t was he who opened II himself 10y a
letter TO 20 less persoh thai that san
culinary pbiIauthropist Horace Greeley,
u, King him (Greeley) to procure a safe
conduct for the party to Washington, and
thence to Richmond. IL appears that
Greeley, at first thinking this was real
embassy to offer submission, eagerly prom
| ised the safe conduct 10 the Presidents
name. They replied they were not exactly
and altogether plenipotensiarie>; but had
no doubt that if the circumstances disclosed
in the correspondence were communities ated
10 Richmond, they or somebody else woald
be invested with full po&ers. Aud what
were the circumstances disclosed?
We learn this from long letter OF
Messrs. Clay and Holcombe, written after
their Iepulse The circumstances disclosed
were nothing in the world except Greeley s
Unauthorized offer Of a safe conduct. They
say--and. ia reading what they say, re-
member that it is two etniiei!t Confederate
gentlemen addressing paltry abolitionist
editor, not having the presumption TO write
to the Emperor Abraham himself--exact.
ing no conditions but that we should be
duly accredited from Richmond, as bearers
of proposing basis for conference as
comprehensive as we could desire, it Scented
to US that the President opened door tha,
had been previously closed against the Con
federate States for all Interchange Of sen
| timents; free discussion of conflicting opin.
ions and an untrammeled effort to remove
alI causes of controversy by liberia, nego.
,iations. What right had they to even al
lude 10 propositions looking towards peace
Who commissioned thetn to interchange
sentiments with Lincoln !? And what dc
hey mean By causes of controversy ant
liberal negotiations II these officiou
gentlemen had been received at Washing
ton, and had been accredited from Rich
mond, We should have felt very nervous OF
the subject # those liberal negotiations
However, Lincoln, so s)on as he was in
formed there were such people lookin,
about that batk door, surmisng that it wa
partly open, though previously closed
and parleyiug With a New York editor il
The hope Of getting admitance-shut tn
door with bang right in their noses, an
warned them off by notice. To whom
it may concern
1t is suggested that perhaps the cunning
device OF Mr.. Sanders was only contri
vance for helping the peace party in tn,
enemy's country; that The answer of Mr.
Lincoln was jnst the very kiud of answer
the very comselled George expected, an,
! thot IL MO 10 hn ~ G.
cously and relentlessiy the present Yanke
Administration is bent on war, and repulse
| the slightest hint at peace. As usual wi,
such excessively cunning schemes, this on
not only defeats itself, but helps the caus
which i, was possibly intending to darnag,
To exhibit an ex senator aud member {
l Congress OF the Rebel States thus titt,fdl
crawling, by a roundabout way, to th
footstool Of the Eml esor of Yahoos, whinin
and snivelling about peace and liberal nego
| tiations, and haughtily refused even admit
ance to the royal presence, will serve no
the peace, but the war party, because !
will be used to create the impression tha
.he Confederacy must be in The agonies @
death, when two such distinguished legisla
tors make SO pitiful an attempt to reach tn
ear of offended majesty. II such was th
idea, then in this case, as in the other
those whom it may concern have 60
what they deserve. snrsu
Has any one seen the Reverend Colone
Jacques and one Edmund Khk? Wha
are the detectives about =? Here have bee
TWO spies, manitesly spies, at Spottswoo
Hotel. Richmond, on secret miSsionj an
now. instead of being 10 Castle Thunder
! Kirk End the Rev. Colonel are again i
their own country, giving mysterious HAT
to the Washington correspondents abou
their three days entertainments in Ricl
mond aud about the two interviews, whic
they say they had with Mr.. Davis. The
. cannot disclose for the present--those diplc
. mats--what passed at those interviews, bu
it is intimated--and here is truly a start
ling fact-tha. Mr.. Davis would consent t.
q nothing short of the recognition Of tn
Southern Confedsracy. OF course thes
two Yankees were spies, or else they want
, ed to sell something in Richmond to whcl
they had run through the lines; OF prob
ably they combined the two objects. On
passport system. we fear. is but poor pro
lection; aud The detectiyes are not sn
fcienlly Vigilant.ed - "a s7ii'
4 However that may be, there is no eel