New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-07
DAVIS ON "PEACE.0

DAVIS ON "PEACE.o
The State of North Carolina is VIGOROUSLY
anxious for speedy restoration of Peace to this
distracted land. 1t was rs well known years ago
as it is to-day that her people disliked and dis
trusted--we might even say detested-the rest
less ntrguers and Hotspurs who were bent on
plunging the South into the abyss of Disunon
For generation, the stolidity, apathy, and po-
litical recreancy of North Carolina have been
the standing butt of her Southern neighbor; and
the antipathy thus evinced has been fully recip-
rocated. There are to-day rival parties i'll North
Carolina, and their differences are grave; but
on the one topic of contemptuous loathing of
the arrogance and reckless self-conceit of the
aristocratic rulers of the Palmetto State, her
contiguous Northern sister is substantially a
unit.
North Carolina-after having firmly resisted
and emphatically repelled the efforts of her
Democratic office-holders and other leading poll
ticians to plunge her into the black gulf
of Secession, was finally pitched into it
on the false pretense that President Lincoln
had declared and was wagng an unprovoked
war Of determination against "the South"
She was suddenly torn from her moor
ings by wholesale, gigantic falsehood; and
she has not yet been permitted to know the
truth. Still, her people know that they have
been somehow duped into a tremendous, ex-
hausting, desolating war; and they are nearly
unanimous in their earnest, pressing desire to
get out of it at the earliest moment. SO they
impel their Governor Col. Vance, whose re-
election is impending, to write officially to their
master, JEFF. Davis, praying him to open, or at
least seek to open, negotiations with the Fed
eral Government for q restoration of Peace.
So Vance writes, and jeff. responds, with not
more than his usual proportion of falsehood to
truth. He, too, wants Peace, and wants il on
the simple basis that they (the SecessioniSts)
abe let alone" Let us test this pretense by
undeniable facts:
I. Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Missouri, each and all
voted, in the Winter Of lS60-6l not TO take part
in the Shareholders Rebellion. Those votes
are on record, and cannot be gainsaycd. Nor
can it be pretended that they were Overawed,
or cajoled, or bullied, or bought; for the Fed
eral officers in their midst and their several State
authorities were then in full completely with the
chief engineers of the Rebellion. Yet jeff
Davis and his confederates would not let them
alone, but kept steadily at work corruptng their
leaders and cajoling or deceving tho masses,
with intent TO plunge them into the yawnng
chasm from which they recoed. TO this end,
the Confederate Constitution prohibits the i'm.
portation of slaves from States outside Of the
Confederacy, with palpable intent to coerce the
Of Virginia, North Carolina, Ten
nessee, Kentucky. &C., to become active Reb-
els. To this end, Fort Sumter was bombarded
and reduced, expressly to " fire the Southern
heart" and overcome the repugnance Of the
Border States to Secession.
IL. After the second plunge had been made,
West Virginia and East Tennessee, having few
slaves and being overwhelmingly loyal, prayed
to be "lct alone" by JEFF. and his minions, but
without avail. Their prayers were answered
with bullets. East Tennessee was ruthlesSly
crushed out, and her loyal sons driven or
dragged into the Rebel ranks; West Virginia
was only saved from like fate by Northern
valor. Never for moment has Davis init
mated willingness 10 let these loyal portions
of the Union alone. On the contrary, ne stands
this day pledged to the Rebel authorities OF Vir-
ginia to make no peace that does not surrender
loyal West Virginia to the vengeance OF the
traitors whose lures she has spurned and whose
domination she has repudiated.
III. Davisfalsely asserts that he has repeatedly
sought Peace with the Union, but all bis overtures
have been repealed and fouted. The answer is
ready-He has mcrer sought Peace on any other
basis than the reoognition in Advance Of his Con-
jederaey as an independsnt poser. This was
clearly exacted by Messrs. Crawford and For
syth, his first emissaries as also in the demand
that Vice. President s'A"hans should be allowed