The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-12
Rebel View ofthe peace Negot,a tom.

lhs ComnstssiOscrs repudtdted ut Richmond
r =, Lincolas Paper His Uhim1tum-
ne Rec. Cot. Ja9ues and Edmund Kirke in tho
tseoet CIpital-7he Object of their Visit Peace
NOT to be O1tu;ned 6y interchanqe Of lSentiment,
"'m mr.. Lincoln, ETC.
FROM inc richmond Examiner July &c.
ror tne nrst time we have the pleasure of
neaII.y approving State paper of Abraham
Lincoih. IL Is MS letter addressed ITO Whom
1t May concern: 1t concerns Messrs. HoI-
combe,' Z. T. Clay and George N, Sanders
ana, We wouiu lon''ly believe, no other person
viduals go creeping round by b ck doors asrua
interviews with Lincoln for "a full. intercbanose
of sentiments it gives US sincere gratiHcat;6n
to see them spurned. yes kicked, from the sa;d
back door. 10 Abraham We deliberately saw saw
Brave" or, if he likes it better. Bully i"
Think of an ex-senator from Alabama and a
Virginia member of Compensation we say moth
selves gratuitously, idly and unbidden to re-
ceive such an ignominious rohutf at the hands
of the truc.lent buffOon of Illinois.
The eccentric procedure of these TWO gen.
tlemen has all the air of device of the inge-
NOUS Sanders He it was, who, finding Mr..
Clay and Mr.. Hoicombe tra-elling in Canada
for their health and sojourning at the Clifton
House, bethought him of getting them into a
correspondence about peace; and it was he
who opened it himself by letter to no less q
person than that sanguinary philanthrOpist
Horace Greeley, asking him Greeley to pro-
cure safe conduct for the party to Washing.
ton and hence to Richmond It appears that
Greeley at first thinking this was q real en-
bassy to offer submission, eagerly promised
the safe conduct in the Presidents name They
replied they were not exactly and altogether
plenipOtenliares but had no doubt that 6. if
the circumstances disclosed in the corfespon-
dence" were communal ed to Richmond thew
or somebody else would be invested with full
powers And what were the circumstances
disclosed? We learn this from long letter of
Messrs. Clay and HoIcombe written after their
repulse. The circumstances disclosed were
nothing in the world except Greeley's unau
thorized offer of safe conduct They say
and. in reading what they av remember that
it is two eminent Confederate gentlemen
addressing paltry aboitiOnist editor, not
having the presumption to write to the EN-
peror Abraham himself" exacting no condi-
tons but that we should be duly accredited
from Richmond. as bearers Of propositions
looking to the establishment of peace thus
proposing basis for conference as compre-
hensive as We could desire, it seemed to us
that the President had opened a door that had
previously been closed againt the Confederate
States for full Interchange of sentiments a
free discussion Of conflicting opinions and an
untrnmmelled effort to remove all causes of
controversy by liberal negotiations" What
right had they to even allude to propositions
looking to the establishment of peace? Who
commissioned them to interchange sentiments
with LincOln? Aud what do they mean bv
causes of controversy and liberal negotiations {?
II these of6cious gentlemen had been received
at Washington. and had been accredited from
Richmond, we should have felt very nervous
on the subject of these liberal negotiations
However, Lincoln, SO soon as he was Informed
there were such people looking about that
door, surmising that it was now partly open,
thongh previously closed" and parlyins with
New York editor in he hope of getting ad-
mittance-shut up the door with . bang right
in their three noses, and warned them of by
notice." To Whom it May Concern"
1t is suggested that perhaps the cunning de-
vice of Mr.. Sanders was only continuance for
helping the peace party in the enemy's coun-
try; that the answer of Mr.. Lincoln was Just
the very kind of answer which the "manv
cOunselled George expected and that it is to
be used to show how ferociously and unrelent-
ingly the present Yankee administration is
bent on war and repulses the slightest hint of
peace. As usual with such excessively Gun
ming schemes, this one not only defeats ITSELF
but helps the cause which it was possibly in
tended to damage. To exhibit an eI Senator
ana member of Congress of the rebel States
thus timdly crawling bya roundabout way to
the fOotstoCl of the Emperor of the YahOos,
whining and snivelling about peace and "libe-
raj negotiations, and haughtily refused even
admittaDce to the sovereign present. will serve
not the peace, but the war party, because it
will be used to create the impression that the
COnfederacy must be In the agonies of death
when two such distinguished legislators make
80 pitiful al attempt to reach the ear of Offend
ed majesty. If such YVES the fact, then, in this
case, as in the other, those whom it may con-
Germ have got what they deserve
Has any one seen the RkVpPpnd Col 1aoouao
and one Edmund Kirke7 What are the detec-
tives about! Here have been two SPIES man.
ifesty spies, "at the SpottswoOd Hotel, Rich
mond, ON a secret mission :" and now, instead
of being in Castle Thunder, Kirke and the Rev.
Colonel are again in their own country, giving
mysterious hints to the Washington CORES
pOndents about their three days entertainment
in r chmOud, and about 1.-TWO interviews ="
which they say they had with Mr.. Davis. They
cannot disclose - for the present those deep
diplomats-what passed at those interviews.
but lit is intiIna ed and here is truly
startling fact that Mr.. Davis would consent
to nothing short of the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy." Of course these two
Yankees were spies; or else they wanted to
sell something in Richmond which they had
run through the Tires or probably they COM
bined the two objects. Our passport system,
we fear, is but little protection and the detec
tives are not sufficiently vigant
I1OWCSCI ttidt LIdS NC, tLeTc Is HOW certainly
a renewal of those vague whisperings of peace,
which have several times before circulated
through society. Many think that peace is in
the air Peace, and rumOrs of peace float
around us and men dream Of peace at night.
We have seen here unauthorized and Offic Gus
persons. both Union and rebel, repair respect
lively North and South about the same moment,
as it We're, snuff peace, as horses snuff water
in the dessert. IfgOld declines little in New
York, CIV n in the teeth OF military dsas' er, the
News says it is because there is q sort of in
s,inCtive feeling that We are on the eve of
pace. This is not unnatural; this plain ayOw-
al IF the enrmy's press four months ago, that
this years eampain must be the final one, the
n ar appr. o III of LincOln's bloody term, the
imminent financial ruin of the United States
al. combine to produce not 50 much a conyic.
ton Us presentiment, that we are soon to have
peace.
And may be so. Peace may be nearer to us
than We think. and may come suddenly though
one cannot STE precisely how. One thing.
however, is clear. So desirable an event can
not be hastentd by amateur negOtiatOrs Eek
changing sentiments with Mr. Lincoln: nor
hy blockade runners thrusting interviews ON
Mr.. Davis; nor by any possible or Conceivable
correspondence between George Sanders and
Horace Greeley.
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