The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-27
ELECTI0SEEE5NG ARTS AND PEACE
ssguDtNS.

From ne Ti,r'.
The air will uc thicl, with peace rumor, Of all
. shapes and cul5rs until election diy-thc veal,
Ainventicns Of a dlsqerat. enemy. Ingenuity will
be racked for new issues, Or at east new sem
blances OF issles, with which to distract and be-
wilder We may hook youtnually for q repett-
tiou, in every mode, of the Niagara attempt to
get the President into false position, by making
him SCI m an obstacle {, rra ouabl ud hpnora-
bic reconciliation. This I'm fact, is now the only
resource Of the Copperheads.
They dare not charge, as Of old, upon the Ad-
miniSra,ion any iu,ticicncy IN conducting the
war, in the face Of the achievements Of Grant
and Sherman, ana Sheridan, ana FArragut Ga
that sc,re tbgy are hopclessly sil,nced. Their
shift Low must ne, not tuut tue Is prosecuted
With weakness, but that Il is prosecuted without
necessity. They will try 10 make IL appear hAt
blood continues to be shed, when q Sdtisf ,ctory
peace might easily be secured by what McClcl IN
styles the "rCsOurvos of a wise stI'oSman> ship"
1t Is now pretended, for instance, that Cover
nor Brown, Of Georgia, and Vice President
stephens, have entered into negotiations with
General Sherman for "a cessation of hOstilities
On It's face il is an ahsurdty, bat the story Is
persistCnty kept up, In the hope that something
I may In the end be made Of II. General Sherman
would be the very last man to consent 60 any
such negotiations. There Is not an officer in our
army who has higher Jealousy OF toe national
: authority than he, or tirmer determination to
mainian t.
He said, in his recent letter to the Atlanta
authorities ITO stop this war we must defoat
the Rebel armies chat are arrdyed against the
laws and Constitution, which all must respect
and obey "rhe United States does and must
assert its authority wherever it has power; it it
relaxes one bit to preserve IL IL is gone" 81 mt
peace, and believe IL can only be had through
Union and war" These are mis- sentiments and
his military measures are all sh tped accordingly.
But even If General sherman had the iucllna ion
to treat With these civilians, he has not the power
He knows his own psi ion well enough to meet
, such approaches on the instant with one word
that all such business must be done, If done nc
all, with the authorities at Washington. His
business is not to make peace, but to make war.
Were Governor Brown TO make any such
application, through any of our Generals to the
President, there can be no doubt what sort of an
answer would be returned. He would be told
that the National Government is not at war with
Georgia, but with individual Rebels in Georgia;
and that, so long as there is any armed rebellion
within the State, there can be no peace within the
State. Governor Brown eau pledge nothing for
the people OF Georgia, for no such power has ever
been dt puted to him. Bur, even il he could egiti-
, mateiy make that pedge, II would not secure the
State from exposure to the war.
Supposing that he could bind himself aud
every Georgian TO be loyal henCetOrth still GeOr-
gia will be a seat OF war so long rs there are
armed Rebels within Il from other States. The
war, in its active operations, knows no State
lines; nor does il spare any people from contact
with it, simply because they are loyal. The peo-
pie of Maryland aud OF Pennsylvania are, as a
body, 10y al, and yet each OF these States has been
theatre of the war again and again. Georgia
is to-day exposed to precisely the same liabilities
as they-no more, no less.
There will be war within her limits so long nS
armed Rebels are found there, and not one
minute longer. Governor Curtin or Governor
Bradford might as we'll seek from the President
an engagement that there should be no more hos
tiiities within the limits of their States as Gov
ernor Brown seek the same thing in behalf of
his. We have not the slightest idea that Gov
ernor Brown is such fool rs to make any such
' application. The story is a sheer invention.
The Copperheaus, and Rebel schomers to help
the CoppCrheads may do their utmost TO thro Y
upon the Administration the guilt of the prolona
tion of the war it will all Oe in vain. The respon
sbiity sts only with those who persist in re-
belliOn. The Government asks only submission
TO Constitutional obligations. IL has no other
conditions to impose. 1t wants no vAssals no
payers of tribute, no depcndants it wants simply
iaw-abiding Ciizeus l. means sinply to recover
the Constitutional authority Of which 1t was de-
spoiled by an impious treason.
Such is not only its right, but its vital neces
sity. To take up with anything less would be
suicide. The loyal people of the land under
stand this, and will uphold their Government in
fighting for Ii TO any extremity. o issue can be
simpler or palmer. No suphistry or fabrication
can deceive the people in regard to it, or divert
th,m from pronouncng upon 1t exclusively an
emphatically III November.