Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-15
OUR friend Col. PoOrman, editor of the


Monday Morning. Augustl6.
QUE friend Col. Poorman, editor of the
St, Clairsville Chronicle, who has done
good service with his sword at the front,
as he is now with his pen in the rear of the
rebellion, is a candidate for Congress be-
fore the convention which meets at Cam
bridge, to morrow. II chosen he will rep
resent the district as Gen. Garfield repre-
sents his-by solid shot votes and words
every time, right in among the foe. NO
men perform 80 much of the drudgery that
leads TO othor mems success. as editors and
hence we already rejoice to see one OF them
in the line of promotion. The Colonel
bears the brunt against coPPerheadism
over in Belmont, and is both capable and
deserving.
the Richmond Sentinel, which is con-
sidered as the organ of JEFF. Davis gov
eminent, referring to an article in the
Washington Chronicle, which says there is
tan undoubted sentiment in favor of peace
at the North, unopposed except by some
mean army contractors, or sordid camp
followers" discusses the subject of peace
at some length. We take the following e1-
tracts from it's columns:
1.-The prospects of peace are very prom
Using. Nine tenthe of the people, north
and south, are heartily tired and sick OF the
war. But the prospects are not quite so
EOr1pU nai0ta them for. n
fortunately, there are great many people,
north and south, besides army contractors
and camp followers interested in the con-
tiuuance of The war. Yet We thank the
Chronicle for its admission, and accept it in
the kind spirit in which we hope aud be-
live it was made. When both sides desire
peace, peace cannot be very far of
"Where there's will there's way" In
the meantime, we presume neither side will
remit its exertion, nor lessen its vigilance
in prosecuting the war.
Let Peace Commissioners be appointed
by either section, aud invested with Plenary
powers of negotiation, meet on neutral ter
ritory, and discuss the terms of peace. Let
all subjects be open TO free discussion and
negotiation. We of the south consider in
dependence as the great and first object of
the war, and that separation is essential to
independence yet we shall be willing to
listen to what you have to say and propose
on the other side. You may offer Us some
thing that will secure our equal rights
within the Union; you may propose to
give the slavebolding and free States equal
ity. of votes in Congress and in the election
OF President and, partly to effect this, you
may throw all New England into one State,
or give her to EnglaDd-or, if England
won't have her, let her secede.
As to the slavery question, we would
leave that to be settled last. The question
OF independence concerns us all. The sub
ject of slavery but part of u.s."
The New York Ne,Os says that the prop
osition for negotiation is in substance the
same the Peace Democracy desire shall be
the platform of the Chicago Convention.
We should be pleased to have the Ne'0S
inform US whether the Sentinel has not
published its article for the express pur
pose of aiding the Peace Democracy at
Chicago.
If it really is honestly expressing it's
sentiments, it is much meeker and more
humble than usual, TO confess that nine
tenths of the people of the South are
heartily tired and sick of the war. With
their last recruit in the army, with Atlanta
trembling within reach of Sherman, and
Mobile exposed to the fire of Farragut's
guns, we can we'll understand that even
the Sentinel should talk little less haugh-
tiIy and abusively than usual. Let US
press on the war bravely and vigorously,
and ten-teuths of the South, including the
men for whom the Sentinel speaks, will
become SO weary of the war that they will
also be willing to give up. Seeing their
inevitable fate, if the war continues, those
men may very likely be willing to make
such terms with the North as the Sentinel
suggests.
1t seems that the arch-rebels are willing
to hear what we heve to say in proof OF the
position that their independence may be
secured without separation. BY the way,
the language seems to imply that separa-
ton has not yet taken place. But posi-
bly,, the Sentinel thinks, we may offer them
equal rights in the Union. By "equal
rights" it means giving the Slave States
the same power in the government that
the Free States now have, regardless of
any disparity in population. That scheme
was broached and advocated before seces.
sion took place.
We have no doubt that JEFF. Davis would
rather be President of the United States
than of the Rebel States. And if through
his friends at Chicago he can put an end
to the war, which, he foresees, must soon
blast all his hopes, if, we say, he can OBJ
tain peace on terms, which will leave the
1overnment of the couDtrv in tho Lo,5s ~