The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-25
rs PEACE ArTAINABLEr now


public journal has supported the war moro stead
| fastly than this. Through all the varying for
ptuues Of the struggle, it has never for an instant
bated one ot Of faith or determination. But this
has not been because we have loved the war for
its own sake. None but a devil could do that.
This sacrifice Of blood Of treasure, this monthly
Rmaking OF widows aud orphans by the thousand,
this turning Of acres by the hundred thousand
into dosolation, Is dreadful work.
We have upheld it only because it Is a necessity
-bccsuse Its only alternative Is something more
dreadful yet. It has been because the war alone
can save the Republic, the last hope Of popular
government and human progress, and because
fif the Republic pershes II must be succeeded by
on indefinite number Of military confederscies
With discordHnt interests and In endless conflict
that We have sustained the war and shall sustain
II. We shall stand up TO Il unwRveringly so long
as these reasons are in force. For all that, IL Is
q thing TO he doplored. Peace Is a consumms-
' ton most dpvoutly to be wished
Can peace b. had We believe Il. In our
judgment it Is sure 10 come within twelve
mouths, II the Northern people arc true to
their duty How is IL to come BY neg)ta-
tion with the Confederate Government No
y It's the most base ess and the most pernicious
Of all delusiOns to imagine that the Jeff. Davis
crew will treat with our national authorities on
any basis that can end this war. What they
have demanded from the beginning has been to
! bo "iot alone" To let them alone Is 20 make
\ them independent. Upon that independence
they have staked everything they have or expect
ION earth.
They mean to fight for Il, and they will Eight
fer Il 70 the last. They have never yet gwen tue
slightest sign of abating their claim, aud they
only utter the absolute truth when they say they
never will. The very spirit OF the arch-Rebel
himself possesses them. They have an untama-
BILE lust OF power, and would sooner reign In hell
than serve in heaven.
!. n. NJ
4 reports, recently asked JET. Davis when this
4 war would c ose Putting his hand on his little
sons head, the Rebel replies MOT I'LL this boy
becomes an old man." Edmund Kirke, who
went with COlouel Jalues 20 Richmond, as he
writes 10 the Boston Transcript, was told by Jof
Davis q week ago yesterday This war must
go on till the last of this generation falls In his
tracks, and his children seize his musket and
ht our battle unless you acknowledge our
Z eht 10 self-gOvernment. We are not fighting for
slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and
that or eXtermination We will have"
IL Is weakness 20 doubt that the Rebel ruler, in
declaring these three things, spoke his fixed pur-
pose. All of his past history shows him to he a
man who means what he says; and no Rebel of
/ his mould ever took backward steps.
Independence jeff. Davis cannot have. Here
and there is creature in the North who would
yield It, but the great body of the Northern
people are incapable of any such trelchery to
their fathers and to their children, With only
that alternative before them, they will fight this
war for years, and, IL need be, until the eNter-
EEilination of which the Rebel chief talks is made
i q dire reality. At whatever cost to this genera
4 ton, this Republic, which was made for centu-
ries and ages, shall be saved
How then Is peace attainablc2 In two ways.
BY separate State action In the South or by con-
quest.
Peace is to be attained by separate State action
through the power of the people. We are now
having practical illustration Of the process in
! North Carolina. A Governor is to be elected in
that State next month. Two candidates are
hp ppOnIp ha
Incumbent, and w. @. Holden. The former Of
4 these is an adherent OF the Ion namond Govern
ment, willing to stand by its fC, mes to the last.
" The latter is an enemy of that Government,
and is pledged, it elected, to call convention to
sever all connection with 1t. The last accounts
make it seem very probable that he may be
h elected There are two tremendous motives ope-
rating to produce this result. First the general
falling condition of the "Confederacy," which is
becoming evident, in spite Of all misrepresenta-
tons. Second, the fact, staring the people of
North Carolina full in the face that when Lee Is
driven from Virginia he will fall back into their
State, and if once allowed a fOothOld there, will
make it the same terrible scene OF desolRtion
Virginia now is.
The only way TO prevent this s for q sovereign
convention Of the State TO AS s'emble, to declare
the State no longer Il member of the "Contede-
rack" to call home its forty OF fifty thousand
soldiers 10 protect the State and 10 ask the Fede
raj Government 10 assist In that work. This re-
quest would be met with ready and liberal
spirit
Governor Holden II so elected. would have
but to utter the ir-t syllable Of such u sollcta-
= tion 70 insure Il ON the Northern people special
army Of hundred thousand volunteers, II their
were need, TO defend the old North State from
"Confederae" invasion. Northern men would
leap TO her deliYerance, as brother leaps to the
] rescue of brother. Such action upon the part OF
North Carolina would bring out "A show of
national goodwill that would make an instant
end OF every mis-, onceptiou and illfceling, and
would put the State back mo the Union with
hardly an effort. Every question Of dt~pu,
would melt 10 nothing, every dbhculy would
vanish.
What the people OF Norrh Carolina can now Do
so easily, 1t they but will, the people OF any othe
\ SOuth IN stare eau do, hey simply have tC
quit the Rebel Tag, 70 be hailed as fc!lOw-enemie
Of the Richmond usurpa'ion, and to be welcomed
- back AS llOw-partners ia all our countless ma
Peace, so lar as there Is no such vountar!
y action 10y iha Southern people, Is TO be attaine,
I. by conquest, in precisely the same way that
- has been already secured in Tennessee, II
Louisiana, and IN Arkansas. What has beel
effected In tie asi, cempustrn'es what eau b
effected IN the iuture. IL may cost great ded
! more OF blood aud OF money great deal NOR
OF sacrifice and OF suffering Ia every form m-bu
the only possible end must be an utter powerlesi
ness on lie part vi the Southern people 10 resi'
longer.
shall come; hut t is as inevitable ~ fate, Il Ga
Souholn pc Ople prTsisf In casting their lot VII
the deep, ration Of JrtT Davis. II the NOuthcr
people W II uOt IlFc Us ltatt a. tuNtl lNAA"H
n cOuntIymen we shalt secure t ~ their cot
querors. We kuOW Ihi Is not grAClou, laugua
But it is naked fact. II thc salvation Ut th
Republic l. 20 dCpgnd upon the aun.hila.iun
its enemies II the word which JET. DAVE h
spoken is 20 he iho accepted device Of the SJuu
ern people, then the war shall cone 10 that, au
the sword shall thus cleaye the say 20 secun
aud peace.
n our iRi h g that the SOuih.n people "
refuse 70 follow Jef. DAVIS much iOuEr ln :
mad career. lt does gOt .Cem o. a. possible tl
they can Keep Ip Ibrir Re el tp,rit lu lht face
such campaignass that OF Sherman's-in the @,
OF such immenA reiufJrcements to our armi
as the last drait III securt-in the face Oi ga
an expression of uny ieding oetsrmiu alton OF /
Northern people as the reelection Of Preside
Lincoln will afford.
/ But we make no attempt at pr. nhecy III
have amazed us often by their folly n time pa
and they may so amaze us again. This only
will assert that peace not long hence this Go
emment win have, either through them o.
y spite of them q peace consistent with H.
honor, their Just rights their best interests, Of
peace carrying TO them humiliation and ruin !
all events peace that shall re-establlsh
nation, and make IL forever one and indiyisibie
PEACE EFFORTS
From the Tribune.
The EreaiHg Post argues, with somewhat