Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-05
WHOLE NO. 25O5
what the Richmond Whig Says
OfPeace.

From the Richmond Whig Of the 10Th
inst,-for copy ofwhich we are indebt-
ed to Major N A. Barret, Of the 9th Ohio
Cavalry,-we make the following ex-
tract:
War is our business. War is our
chief concern. Peace can be brought
about only by war. War will finally
conduct US to peace. We must light II
we would have peace, and the more reso-
lutely we fight the shorter we make the
duration of the contest. We should
give proof of our sincere desire for peace
by carrying on the war with earnestness
and vigor Vallandingham, Long. and
the whole peace party in the United
States, are a broken reed. The true and
mighty peace men are on this side OF the
line-Lee, Beauregard, Hood, Eariy, Alr-
by Smith. and other valiant chieftalns,
with the brave men under them our
army is real peace party. We must
look for peace, not to the tongue anu
pen, but to the sword and the bayonet;
Ink will never bring peace, but blood
will. The Chicago resolutions VIII DO
very well for the Yankees. We OF the
Confederate States have adopted but one
resolution, which IS, that by the help OF
God we will achieve our independence
That has cost us a terrible price, but we
must stand up to it'll We compel our
enemies 20 admit that they have no
right to vote on that question. Nhen
We do that, we shall have done all, and
having done all, we can then talk about
war aud enjoy peace, to our heart con
tent. At the present time. wa IS our
business, our duty; our. salvation
The same paper talks thus Of our DIN
GERS and soldiers it says:
Strike off from the roll Of Yankee
officers the disreputable shsracters-the
gamblers, drunkards, rum sellers, condo
ners of guilty wives. swindlers, convicted
falsifiers, thieves, adventures, mlscegen-
ators. Ha5it,tes of the lowest sinks OF wee,
and open practisers of every species OF
immorality-and there would not be
left of the shoulder-strsp gentry enough
to command a single corps. Think oil
the morals and tone of an army, whose
chiefs are Lincoln, low bred, obscene
clown; Stanton, cunning callous. hyP-
ocritical william, who daily quibbles OIL
the lives of thousands of MS people, IN
tricks to avoid an exchange of prisoners;
Halleck. who has won from his own peo-
pie the title of Major General of Liars;
Grant, half reformed sot; Butler, by
the common instincts of mankind reeog-
nized as a beast; these aresthe DllmaJoreSs
of the Yankee army from whom descend
through every grade and rsmifcation OF
the service the moral, or rather immoral,
influence that infects the whole mass OF
the army.
And the army itself-how, and OF what
is it made up? Look at the hordes oi
ruffains and black guards and cut throats
and say what Jail or penitentiary has not
been robbed to bring together these hire
ling assassins, All nations have their
representatives of their most vicious and
lowless GLASSES, and there is probably not
a penal establishment. or band OF crima'
mails, or locality famous for depravlty IN
the civilized world. that has not Its grad
uate in that motley host. The most re-
spectacle element in the Tanke army TO-
day, taken as body, is that composed OF
our own runaway or kidnapped negroes
The others are mercenaries, who were
willing to sell themselves for the work
of murder, or robbers who wire attracted
by the hope Of Dlunder.