Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-07-25

llocoln (Nqaeeelag Wfeh she
Webel Leaders.
According to authority the rebel comrns
sioners assembled 1t the Falls ION the Can
ada sidc) AMI notified Horace Greeley that
they had come thither for the purpose Of
arranging the preliminaries Of peace. Mr.
Greeley communicated the fact TO President
Lincoln and he requested sir. Greeley
10 act in the matter as hc (Mr. &. thought
advisable" &c. Mr. Lincoln went further,
and stated that he should be p!eaxcd TO re-
ccivc propositions from thcm, and to see the
Union restored upon Any TENS consistent .
&C., 4. Mr.. Greeley having settled al
prcliminarics with Mr.. Lincoln, procccde'
to this place the Falls--snd entered up
on his appointed work. az correspond
encc was at once opcncd;' and the term
already given in this paper, were submitted
by the Confederate to the Federal 7 Com
missioncrs "-Mcssrs. Greeley and Hay
the latter, the Presidents Private Secretary
having turned up in the course Of the mt.
gotiation.
The President, il will be observed, wa
consulting during the conferences, and his
view obtained in respect to the profcre.
terms; and finally, the whole matter wa
referred back to the two governments 70,
their consideration"
1t necessarily follows from this recitu
that FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN "Tmt
TWO GOVERNMENTS" are to be cntcrc,
upon For to refer the whole matte,
back to the two governments can have II,
other meaning. What will our brethren O,
the abolition persuasion say to thisy Their
motto has been No compromise ncyo
tiations with taitors-thcy must be suhiu-
gated and reduced to unconditional s,lmllns-
slon." But now We are 10 have confercn
ces, negotiations, propositions, and counter
propositions between the 1.-TWO govern
mcnts;" mark the language and its sisnif-
icance-" the TWO GOVERNMENTS" and thes.
negotiations are proceeded by the formal
and authoritative announcement that the
Pcsident would like peace upon ANY
TERMS" &c.-the qualifications necessarily
implying that he would vary the "terms "
ne had already prescribed in his various
messages and proclamations. The Presi-
dent even went SO far towards recognizing
the Confederate Commissioners as to tcle-
graph 1.-The terms upon which he WOULD
PROPOSE SETTLEMENT and reconstruc.
ton"
We may expect an "official account of
these preliminary negotiations between the
1.-TWO governments" through the columns
Of the Tribune in . few days. The unavovl
ed, but nevertheless, the TRUE reason Why
Mr.. Lincoln has thus formally recognized
the confederate government by telegiph.
ing to its commissioners q proposition for
peace through fact that he was afraid Of
THE PARTISAN CONSEQUENCES Of his refusal
to confer With them. As the war has been
"pervertod into an abolition War" (Thur.
low Weed being authority in the interest
ofparty; SO he opens negotiation for Peace
in the interest Of party. We shall have
Peace under Mr.. Lincoln's auspices on
"any terms " will be held to afford ample
security against another war in the interest
Of Slavery" which will secure the re- cleo
ton Of Abraham Lincoln. 1t will not sur.
prise us If Mr.. Lincoln shall DO found co.
operating with the Woods and Vsl!andig-
ham in respect to "pcace measures before
the close Of the canvass. Already it is init
mated that there will be no draft; and it is
not unlikely that the sudden and uncxpect-
ed call for 100000 men, to be enforced by
a draft in fifty days, is simply part Of Mr..
Llncoln's intrigue to bring about a Peace
on ANY terms" that will secure his rc-clcc-
ton. Thus it is that all the interests of the
People represented by :. 1.-THE two govern.
ments' are subordinatcd to the partisan
needs Of the political leader under whose
suspicious the highest wreck and ruin Of
human happiness and hopes the world has
ever x own, was wrought at the dictate Of
partisan bigotry and sectional hate.
--
The RourE TO RICHMOND. -Prcsilent Lin
coin and his youngest son left Washington
Monday evening, on the ordnance steamer
Baltimore, to visit Gen. Grant, it in report
ed, and see how affairs arc progressing on
James river Washington Inseliigencer.
Upon this the Buffalo Courie pertinently
asks why Lincoln did not go to Richmond