Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-01
From the Pitts5urg (Pa.) Gazette.

There ia a strong desire in New York, whe re- monev
rules for peace at almost any price aud almost any
terms The Tribune and Times represent the better part
Of tie Wall street interest in this regard and the World
and Journal OF Commerce the grosser part In the com
mercai the feeling prevails and probably in
much the way; but Wall street is always more de-
monstratve than any other locality and the feeling OF thu
money interest of the country generally fods expression
there The pressure from this source upon The Admus
has been very strong and since Mr. Greeley
became sort Of ambassador at Niagara the Wii street
interest has not been slow in taking advantage of his will
ingnrss to bring about peace without Ito abolition Of
slavery.
As this subject is thus fairly up for discussion we will
not be slow in putting opinions forward We, too,
are for peace but for lasting peace, and for
aoy hollow truce that bring tor the present the
semblsuce of peace yet will be at best but temporary
SIN hering of the fires Of discord leaving them e. burst
out again with increased fury We for the Uni n too
snd for Is restoration, but upon such will secure
it against future attempts at ruptnrng it,
there can be no lasting peace and permanent Union
1T element OF constant dscord and strife, aud it VIII
either rule ruin. We have enough of s rule and
seeing It's eff rts at ruin II We do not crush
it it will its eff rs at ruin oaly by beng
stored to rule shall after sacrificing the lives OF
two hundred thousand brave and mourning debt of
two thousand millions, go back TO the old condition of
things and leave similar contest for future genera
Then has all this blood and treasure been spent for
naught.
III very easy to assume that slavery is absolutely
gone" but it is not true Tho Frem mt Convention At
Cleveland sultfed itself by adopting IA fact that which
every days history proves TO be lie that slavery dead
Slavery not dead nor is i absolutely gone II es not
appear TO be going 1t is this hour the life and
soul Of the rebellion and only when the latter l thorough
y crushed viii the former die If any peace concluded
which Is not based upon the thorough abolition slavery
il will be found therefore, that il s alive and und able
TO control Judges, Presidents, dom ieer Con-
gress, and rule the country SO that is hardly worth
while to plead for peace wi bout abolition upon the plea
that slavery is absolutely gone
1t Is eqally vain to ask TO leave the question oil
slavery to the courts We unwilling to trust any qnes
ton Ia which human freedoms concerned TO the supreme
Court as at present constituted Ii we are gong b. make
peace let us mike it upon terms too plain to nesd IDEAL
construction We all know what We means let us there
fore ssy plainly what IL we mean to restore
slavery let US say 40 and II mean to abolish it let
sv Ill and say it in unmstaksble terms Ii lberty TO be
cheated let her be cheated openly, and not by lodging
behind the courta
The President has ssued his proclamation declaring the
slaves free let him stand by it if he wants the people to
t4ud by him Congress has endorsed aud egazsd that
reclamation let have backing ont from it After
years of with all its bitter lessons and sad expo
ences it s too late to telus that we must not insist no
vantage ground we have gained, shall we tell the
yd ,ws and orphans and mourners which tbs war has
made, that after all have been hghng for Freedom
that in fact we have been lighting for nothing Others
may do " they like bat 90 step shall be taken backward
with our consent