The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-08-12
Rebel Wow cfsha! Rgeass Negotiation.

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t see C'pitql-TAe Object of Ae;r .Visit Peace
,r r;s % 90 0otassed ~ Fserchange ~ Sentiments
from inc Richmond Examiner. July &c.
s noI tne nrst time we have the pleasure of
Lincoln. f Il il his Ia, state paper Of Abraham
it May Concern" It concerns Me.sra Hni.
conbe,. c. G: Clay and George S n Saniers
and, we would fondiy belieye ne 49, rou.n
or persons whomsOever, When ofic;o,p.s 'i ;nd;,'
viduals go creeping round by .ck doors ssI J
interviews with Lincoln tor "a full, interchange
Of sentiments, = II gives US sincere gratiHcasion
to see them spqrned yes kicked from tha sa;5
back door. O To- abraham we deliberately saw sav
Brave o. If he likes it better. '.BHllv IL
Think of an ex-senator from Alabama. and
Virginia member of Congress-for we say moth
ing of the third "negotiitor Exposing them
selves gratuitously idly, and unbidden to re-
ceiye ouch an ignominions rebuff at the hands
of the true5lenS bnfiOan OF Illinois. ,htliS'l'@
a The eccentric procedure of these Two gen.
tlemen has all thsair Of o device Of the ipge-
NOUS Sanders He it was, who, finding Mr.
Clay and Mr.. Hoicombe Travelling ia Canada
for their health and sojonrning at the Clifton
House, bethOuyht him of getting them into q
correspondence about peace; and 1t was he
who opened 1t himself BY letter 70 no. less .
person than that eanguinary philantbr0pist
Horace Greeley asking him (Greeley) to PRO
cure safe conduct for the party to Washing.
ton and hence to Richmond. II appears that
Greeley, at first thinking this was real EN-.
bassy to offer submission, eagerly promised
the safe conduct In the Presidents name They
replied they were not exactly and altogether
plenipOtentiaries; but had no doubt that :. if
the circumstances disclosed in the cOrrespou-
dence" were cOmmunita ed to Richmond. they
or somebody else would be invested with full
powers And what were the circumstances
disclosed? We learn this from long letter of
Messrs Clay and HOlcombe written after their
repulse. The circumstances disclosed were
nothing in the world except Greeley's unau.
thorized offer of a safe conduct They say
and, in reading what they ay remember that
it is two eminent Confederate gentlemen
addressing paltry aboIitiOnist editor. not
having the presumption to write to the EN-.
peror Abraham himself exacting no condi.
tions but that we should be duly accredited
from Richmond, as bearers Of propositions
looking to the establishment of peace thus
proposing basis for conference as compre-
hensive IS We could desire, it seemed to US
that the President had opened q door that had
previously been closed againt the Confederate
States for full Interchange of sentiments a
free discussion Of conflicting opinions and an
untrammelled effort to remove all causes of
controversy by liberal negotiations" What
right had they to even allude to propositions
looking to the establishment of peace? Who
commissioned them to Interchange sentiments
with Lincoln? And what do they mean bv
causes OF controversy and liberal negotiations?
1t these ofhcfous gentlemen had been received
at Washington. and had been accredited from
Richmond, we should have felt very nervous
on the subject Of these liberal negotiations
However, Lincoln, 50 soon as he was informed
there were such people looking about that
door, surmising that it was now partly open.
thoagh " previously closed, ? and parlying with
New York editor In he hope Of getting ad-
mittance-shut up the dOor with bang right
In their three noses, and warned them of BY .
notice." To Whom it May Concern"
1t is suggested that perhaps the cunning de-
vice of Mr.. Sanders was only . continuance for
helping the peace party In the enemy'6 coun-
try that the answer of Mr.. Lincoln was just
the very kind of answer which the +" many
cOunselled George expected, and that 1t is to
be used to show how ferociously and unrelent-
ingiy the present Yankee administration is
bent on war and repulses the slightest hint of
peace. As usual with such excessively Gun.
ming schemes, this one not only defeats itself.
but helps the cause which it was possibly in
tended to damage. To exhibit an Ell Senator
ana member of Congress of the rebel States
thus timdly crawling bya roundabout way to
the f0OtstoCl Of the Emperor of the Yahoos.
whining and snivelling about peace and "libe-
raj negotiations, and haughtily refused even
admittance to the sovereign present. will serve
not the peace, but the war party, because it
will be used to create the impression that the
COnfederacy must be In the agonies of death
when two such distinguished legislators make
ed majesty. Ifsuch was the fact, then, in this
case, as in the other, g those whom it may con.
Germ have got what they deserve. c,
Has any one seen the Reverend Col. JACQUES
and one Edmund Kirke7 What are the detec-
tives about? Here have been two spies, man.
ifestly spies, lat the Spottswood Hotel Rich
mond, ON . secret mission :" and now, instead
of being in Castle Thunder, Kirke and the Rev
Colonel are again in their own country, giving
mysterious hints to the Washington icorres-
pOndents about their three days entertainment
in Richmond, and about 1.-TWO interview"
which they say they had with Mr.. Davis. They
cannot disclose for the present "-those deep
diplomats-what passed at those interviews,
but lit is intima ed land here is q truly
startling fact that Mr.. Davis would consent
to nothing short of the recognition of the
Southern COnfederacy." OF course these two
Yankees were spies or else they wanted to
sell something in Richmond which they had
run through the lires; or probably they COM
bned the two objects. Our passport system,
we fear, is but little protection; and the detec.
tives are not sufficiently vigilant 49,.
However that may be, there is now certainly
renewal of those vague whisperings of peace,
which have several times before circulated
through society. Many think that peace is in
the air Peace, and rumOrs of peace float
around us and men dream Of peace at night.
We have seen here unauthorized and Of1ic Gus
persons. both Union and rebel, repair respect
lively North and South about the same moment,
as lit were. snuff peace. as horses snuff water
in the dessert. Ifgold declines little in New
York, ev in the teeth OF military disaster, the
NeUs says it is because there is sort of in
stinctive feeling that we are on the eve of
pace. This is not unnatural; this plain ayow-
al Of the enemy's press four months ago, that
this years eampain must be the final one, the
q ar appr oh of Lincoln's bloody term, the
imminent financial ruin of the United States
al combine to produce not 80 much a convic-
ton as presentiment, that we are soon to have
peace. s, ~, ~. 80. =
And may be so. Peace may be nearer to MS
than We think. and may come suddenly. though
one cannot see precisely how. One thing.
however, is clear. So desirable an event can.
not be haslentd by amateur negOtiatOrs "ex-
changing sentiments with Mr.. Lincoln: nor
hy blockade runners thrusting sinteryiews"0n
Mr.. Davis; nor by any possible or conceivable
correspondence between George Sanders and
Horace Greeley. 80
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