New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-05
MORE ABOUT NIAGARA AND
"PEACE,o
From The ". y. Times, da1.<
yUR NIAGARA PRACR PLOT.

We have no disposition to revive or prolong
,rho d,.cussou concerning the recent movements OF
NIAGARA Falls on the subject Of peace. But one or two
,.Ints In the letter addressed to by Mr.. Horace
resey on Tuesday last seem TO cal for additional
remart Mr. Greeley complains that we unjusuy
al,ihute 70 him an undue share Ia those negotiations
and claims 70 have done nothing whatever but wba no
WAS especially authorized and requested to do by Fre
| dent Lincoln. lie says;
Tbs Prd<nt pas appr,cd that active emineH ssenu OF
the II be power Richmond desired to poceedto wAen
to submit TO him authorized proposals of he
cation Of distracted bleeding country ne te,,np,n '
Niagara and snsy tier h' 500 n",
eyne that the overture shoud not be radey repui'edmo
reluctantly undertook the errhnd' -
We cannot help thinking that Mr.. greeley In 'n''
statement does somewhat less than justice both 70 n
self and to President LiDcnln And II no VIII paohsh
the whole correspondence which passed between 'heni
on the subject think the public viii concur ID ts
opinion. ........-
Unless we have been m!slnformed. 1t was oy Mr..
Grxy himself that the President was appriscd' that
agents Of the Rebel power were OF Niagara desiring 10
submit 60 him yspRer.s ofIsegs. Mr., Greeley vIo'e
e Nj lincoln assuring him OF this fact-iniofnhs
him thut he had evidence Of 1t satisfactory to his OWE
mind. and urging hD, with great force and earnest
ness not to om, this opportunity Of demonstrating to
that President Lincoln first learned that men claiming
to be agents Of the Rebel power desired to confer with
him in regard TO peace, and he at once replied 10 Mt
Greeley that he at liberty to bring thcm-h they
even prcessd TO have power 10 treat on this suhco'
and were prepared TO do 30 on the basis Of returning c
tie Union and abandoning Slayery-directly 20 ash
inston, where they should have full hearing and hbc
raj consideration for whatever they had to say.
On reaching Niagara, Mr.. Greeley, somewhat to his
disappointment doubtless. found nobody there who
even protested" to have any authority or any power
10 treat on behalf Of the Rebels for peace, or Tor any
thing else with the Government OF the United states
All he found WAS two or three gentlemen from the
Rebel States whs said that they could 60 to Wash
lington and thence to Richmond they believed they
could sa authority to enter upon peace negotiations
What reason they had for SO believing, or why the!
conld get soch authority any better than any other oil
the two or three hundred Rebel emissares In Canada
Mr. Greeley had apparently better means ofjudging
then than we have now. But his original statements
made to Mr. Lincoln in regard TO their character aud
preensons not sustained by the facts Is he after
ward ascertained them not one OF the conditions on
which be was authorized 10 bring them to Washington
had been fulfilled. or this changed state OF alters Mr.
reeley Informed tbs President and the latter. In
order that there gnt % no uouDt "uatofo' as =" LIE
disposition 10 receire overtures for peace whenever
they might come with due authority. addressed to ar
whom 1t might concern" the offer he had pre-
viously made to Mr. Greeley behalf Of the person'
for whom he Ind assumed TO speak.
II this statement OF facts 10 correct Mr.. Greeley
part In this transaction more important than he Il
inclined represent IT, H. moreover. be informed th'
persons in question Of the conditions which he was
the outset authorized by the President to bring them
Washington their surprise at reading those conditions
in his subsequent letter sheer affectation aud thu
charge Inconsistency which they based upon it, wa
q pure invention.
We respectfully suggest to Mr. Greeley the propriety
OF publishing all the correspondence that passed be-
tween him and President Lincoln this subject This
win very edectusy silence the csmor which the Rebel
press following the example of the Rebel agents. has
sought to arouse against tie President In regard to this
m altar.