Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-10-28
PEACE Party on THh uR1oN.

" Peace" they claim to be the peace party,
par excellence, and on that word of many
signi6cations they enter the political arena,
and stake the issue of the coming combat.
Without pausing to review the antece-
dents and declarations of that party, and
to show that the peace that they propose
is nothing more than submission to the
rebellion, dissolution of the Union, and
the creation, out of its fragments, of two
OF more republics, the antagonistic char
acter of whose institutions and interests
would produce endless war, we shall pro-
coed to show that the true party of peace
in the United States is the Union party,
which is now rallied to the support and
continuance of the present Administra-
ton and its policy. The great North,
which constitutes the loyal portion OF the
Union. is the home of the peaceful arts, OF
honest industry, of science and material
progress. The bloody arbitrament OF war
is at variance with the nature and educa-
ton of its people. 1t is in the pursuits OF
those peaceful arts, not in conquests upon
land and sea, that those Northern people
have elevated their country from the posi-
ton of feeble colony, to the first rank OF
the nations of the earth. The founders Of
the Republic saw, with prophetic eve
that, for the experiment Of free govern
ment to succeed, the nation must be an
unit, and homogeneous in character aud
interest, and they bound and riveted it
with bolts and bands which they conf
IDENTIFY Judged no traitorous hand would
ever seek to rend asunder. The echoes of
their warning voices come up from the
tomb, commanding us to maintain in its
integrity the Union of the States" Ithas
been in spirit of obedience to the solemn
admonitions of their Sorefa,hers, and firm
conviction of the necessity Of the preser-
vation of that Union. that has given that
character of liberal concession to forty
years of arrogance and aggression on the
part of the slave oligarchy of the South.
That spirit of comfy and concession
governed them up to the hour when the
angel of Peace flew affrighted from the
land at the advent of the Demon Of War,
invoked by the traitors Of the South.
Sadly and reluctantly the people of the
North laid aside the implements Of peace
full art and grasped the engines of war
The issue of blood and fire was forced upon
them at last, and they were compelled to
accept it, or submit to national disintegra-
ton and national destruction. Albeit,
unused to war, they have shown them
selves as terrible in battle as successful in
the more congenial and hunanizing pur-
suits of peace. With steady onward
march they have recaptured fortified cities,
one after another, seaport after seaport,
have opened the Mississippi from the Ohio
to the Gull. and have held them. Closer
ard closer around the monster of rebellion,
press the crushing folds of their trench
dous embrace. until the heart Of treason
grows faint and sick, but unyielding stih.
And now when the struggles of the des-
perately dying foe, grow weaker and
weaker day by day, and its bones are
cracking beneath the mighty pressure, a
reasonable party, within the Union lines,
cries "loose thy crushing grasp! Oh,
nation, let there be peace - The cry
comes not from the fallen, crushed foe.
They entered this unholy war, not for
further compromises and further conces-
sions. They have said, time and time
again. that "were sheet of white paper
presented to them upon which to draw
their own terms of compact, there should
never be another Union with the North"
The only peace they ask for is peace that
shall give them absolute independence.
What manner of peace would such a
peace as that ensure to the people Of this
continent: Lying Immediately against
our Southern frontier, separated only by
an imaginary line, hundreds of miles in
length, would exist a nation as antagon-
istic to our own. in its institutions and all
its characteristics. as Heaven is from He'll.
It is plain to the most casual observer Of
governmental affairs rs conducted IN the
Confederacy, that were its independence
as nation established, its form Of gov
eminent would be moDarchial rather than
republican. The tastes of its ruling
classes all tend in that direction, and they
have repeatedly expressed their preference
for that form Of government. Democracy
is their bane and their adherence. Again,
the foundation, the cornerstone of their
nation would be slavery. Without going
farther We have said enough to show the
impossibillty of the existence of two ma
tons peacably upon the territory now
covered BY the United States. Despotism
and slavery could never exist peacably by
the side of free government and free labor,
divided from each other by a merely
imaginary line. Vexatious questions
would constantly arise concerning tariffs
and the extradition of political offenders,
felons and runaway negroes. The latter
class of fugitives it is idle to suppose
would ever be rendered up, under the
changed state of public sentiment. and
this question alone would be a fertile
source of wars. The slave power is and
ever has been aggressive, and ever seeking
to extend its territory. This spirit of
aggression would make it essentially a
military nation, ever seeking an excuse
for war and the conquest Of fresh fields
of extension. This would entail the ne