The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-09-07
THE PEACE QUESTION SOUTH.
Commercial Reconstruction with our \ an
kee Foes. and the ichmond Sentinel.

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from the Charleston Murcury, August ~
Our readers will remember that few
DAYS since we laid before them an extract
from an article of the Richmond Senti-
mel upon the subject of peace This pa
per. the reputed organ of the Administra-
\ ton threw out propositions for reunion
of the Confederate States with the United
States. leaving out New England, and a
usurpation of power over the institution
of slavery in the adjustment of terms of
peace with the United States. This ar
ticle is followed by another, on the same
subject, by the Sentinel, which we pub
lislI at length for the perusal OF our rea-
ders 1t contains very shallow apollo
sE for European nations, in not recogniz-
ing the Independence of the Confederate
States, an independence which stands
/ recognized in the countries OF Great
Britain and France more than eighty
years ago, and closes with a distinct ad-
vocacy of reconstruction of our former
commercial union with the United States.
When South Carolina seeded from the
United States she invited her sister slave
holding States of the South to form with
her IA slaveholdng COnfederacy." Bit
ter experience had proved that slave
! holding and non -slaycholdiDg States
4 could not live in harmony together un-
der one Government. Great Britain,
/ France and Holland had sacrificed their
/ sayeholding colonies, whilst under the
4 Government of the United States per-
petual strife had proved perpetual IRE
concillability The Constitution of the
United States established q union between
the slaveholding and non slaveholding
States in two great vital particulars
union in commerce, and union with re
spect to foreign nations The latter was
( for defence, and produced, in but one in
stance the war of 1922. any dissatis-
faction amongst the States. 1t was the
former union in commerce, which finally
drove us from the Northern States. 1t
I was this which produced the contentious
about protective tariffs, internal improve
ments, and banks. III was because free
and unrestricted trade existed amongst
the States that the manufacturers OF the
North endeavored by prohibitory duties
on foreign importations, to mouopolize
the markets of the South for their manu-
factured commodities. 1t was our ''union
in commerce. which induced uSurpa-
tions over internal improvements to IA
cilitate and carry it on, and for the same
purpose United States banks were estab-
lished 1t was union i'll commerce
which introduced the locust hordes OF
Yankees into every city, town, and ham
let in the South and brought them IN
contact with our slaves, and raised up
that spirit of intermeddling and assump-
ton which eliminated i'll Abolltionism.
1t is ''union in commerce which has
produced the war now waged against US.
The Yankees want our markets-our
trade-our subordination to their COM
mercial greed and enterprise. Give them
this, and they have got all they have
desolated our country and murdered our
people to obtain. Give them this, and
our peace and independence is sham.
We will have few years of hypocrltIcal
deierence and forbearance; and then,
with a more assured power, and a deeper
hate, our doomed posterity must fight
over again the great battle OF indepen-
dence and liberty.
The Sentinel argues, that we might,
with safety, give peculiar commercial ad-
vantages to other foreign nations, we
might grant them also to our Yankee foes.
Not so. Commercial privileges to the
old European nations may be only car
rvin9 out the natural order of things.
They may give us the cheapest manu-
featured commodities in exchange for
our agricultural productions. On the
contrary, any peculiar commercial adj
vantages bestowed on our Yankee neigh
bors, with their dearer commodities, Will
only be antagonism with interest Be
sides, European nations are three thou
sand miles apart from us. and viii not be
disposed to Interfere with our institu
tions. Not so the pragmatical, unscru-
pulous Yankees-They are on our bor-
ders, and there can be no peace with any
nation which gives them peculiar inti-
macy or advantage. Nor have Euro
pean nations passed through our country
like our Yankee foes, and left n corpse in
every house There is but one way to
be at peace with this false and bloody
race They must be kept at the utmost
distance the law of nations will allow.
But we are opposed to any peculiar COM
mercial advantages being granted to any
nation OF the world All the nations of
Europe have so acted towards us as to
make it our policy--a policy required
alike by oar dignity and our interests
10 be utterly independent of them all
Peace with all. and entangling alliance
with none, was the course General
Washington prescribed for the United
States, when they commenced their ca
reer amongst the nations of the world.
The wisdom of this great man now bla-
IONS the path We. Of the Confederate
State should now pursue.
7 From the Richmond Examiner Aug II