Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-08-03

II, instead Of rejecting the overtures Of
Peace, made by the Confederate Com
missioners, ABRAHAM LIScoLS had con-
sidered their proposals, and entered into
negotiations for the conclusion Of this
horid war we may specify few Of the
benefcent consequences
The call for 100000 men might have
been revoked, and our people, instead Of
sacrificing their means TO pay bounties to
volunteers, and wasting their time in
soliciting money, would have been free to
attend to their own affairs, and provide
for the support of their families, Agoniz-
ed mothers and anxious fathers would he
relieved Of ell apprehension that their
children should be torn from their peace
ful homes to spill their blood in fruitless
battle.
The soldiers, now in the field, might
be sent home to their wives and families
and by their industry in the bene6cent
walks of peace. add to the power and
wealth of the country.
The frightful expenditure of four mil
lions of dollars per day, would diminish
toa mere fraction OF that sum, and the
mountain of taxation, looming up in such
frightful proportions, would no longer
augment its already stupendous size with
every passing hour.
We should no more read long an
Ifrightful columns of the killed and wound
ed in battle. The shocking accounts o.
lacerated, mangled, tortured men woulc
no more harrow our souls with theil
perusal.
The avenues to the public treasury, now
thronged with thieves, growing rich by
purloining the money of the people, woulC
be closed, and the robbers turned bach
upon their own resources for a livelihood
The party bitterness, now so aggravat
ed as to threaten the whole country will
universal war and bloodshed-neighbo
against neighbo-, community against com
muuity-would give place to the old tim'
friendliness, and we would enjoy socia
intercourse and brotherly kindness, in tn
stead of hatred, and strife, and deadly
feuds and animosities.
The fearful tide of vice and immortality
which is now rolling over the country lik'
a food, and which threatens the total cor
ruption and ruin of the rising generation
would be stayed and turned back, and ou
= children be rescued from the imiminen
peril Of utter ruin.
Instead of Fasts and Humiliations, 70
defeats and disasters, the whole peopl
might assemble, joyfully, and with thank
to the great God of Heaven, that tn
cruel war was ended, and white-robe,
, Peace once more returned with all he
t manifold blessings,
8 But all Of these benign and most desir
able results, were contemned by ABRAuAl
/, LINCOLN. Deliberately, and with malic
aforethought, the frightful, bloody, desolat
ing war is decreed to go on, and fres
levies are made oil men by the half mil
lion. ...........
The tears Of mothers and wives mu;
: yet flow in torrents the frightful catt
= logues of dead and wounded must sti
: shock the sensibilities the wealth Of ii
e people must be stolen and wasted at ii
I rate of millions per day the perils I
h civil war must still be encountered; an
$ the paths which lead our children dow
e to hell, be increased in number, and mac
still more accessible and inviting
a Great Heaven! Is there no power
" rescue this people from the terrible doc
! which is being provided for them by the
3 own madness