The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-15

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Cessation OF Hossiilties.1
The Chicago peace mopgers declared
in their platform in favor of cessation
of. hosfilities and overtures for peace With
the traitors BY means Of compromise ac-
cording to Mcclellan.
Now. compromise with traitors in arms
against the country is nothing more nor
less than surrender on the part Of the
government Of its rightful authority and
claim Of obedience to the Constitution
and laws.
Let US see what conditions preliminary
are exac,ed Of the Copperheads by their
Southern BRETHREN" and what difficult
ties stand in the way Of their utcopdi-
;ional submission to the arch traitor, JEFF.
Davis. Hero is an editorial from the
Richmond Dispatch of the 3oth OF Au-
gust, which prescribcs TO their Mcclellan
friends of the North the manner in which
their " cessation Of bostilities" is I'd be ef-
fccted and Peace Convention constituted.
And thefrss preIiminaryis is the withdrawal
oi.our armies from every foot of the coun-
try south Of Mason aud Dixon's line:
Wherever treaty of peace ed all be
made, it must be done solely on the basis
OF the entire independence and sovereign.
ty of each particular State. That must
be preliminary to, and eanno. be q SUBJ
jecs of negotiation. The Coufed derate
Government has no right to make any
peace in which one inch of land belong
ing to any Of the States shall be Riven
up, or one iota of it's privileges as SOW
ereign to be surrendered. This, 90 far
from being the subject of negotiation
must prccede. Ii the enemy refuee 10
concede it, then We cannot negotiate with
him. 1t follows that there can be no
such thing. as treating for peace 10 earn
est until every hostile soldier shall have
been Withdrawn from our soil, and ever,
hostile ship from our waters. Then We
can talk of peace and all those matter Rs of
secondary Importance which it ma be
necessary to dispose of, and which, in
volving no principle and affecting the
rights of no State, come properly within
the sphere of the treaty making power.
We have reason to believe that President
Davis does no: stand upon this ground,
although VIC judge Of bis opinions only
from his acts aud his public declarations.
The Yankee Presiden, has no more
power to put the Yankee States into 'con-
vention with ours than President Davis
has TO nut u IN convention with them.
The treaty making power is the .sue in
both Governments. But the Yankees
have long accustomed themselves to CON-
| slider theirs a consolidated Government.
possessing all power for all purposes. The
States they regard rs possessing no more
sovereignty than the counties. In-
deed, in one Of his speeches, Lincoln ex.
pressly declared that they had no more
power than this. Should We agree, there
fore, the convention would certainly take
place. 1t is wonderful, in the meantime,
that intelligent men like Vallandigham
and Fernando Wood-who must be fully
acquainted with the Southern doctrine Of
S;ats rights, and must know that sll this
blood has been shed in their defence-
should think it possible to get US into
such convention, or to restore the Union
BY means Of it. What We want, frst of
oil, ,s entire and separate Independence.
The Confederate States can go into
convention with the Ysukee States 10 one
way, aud one only. They can withdraw
from the Confederacy. each State on its
own separate account and responsibility.
They can then. each State for itself, go
into such convention. This they will