The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-02-25

: mlSS.oners carried with them proc lama
ton Of the Presinent, in which he Offered
a full pardon to all who would submit to
+. the laws. By the conduct and forbearance
OF these. commissioners peace was restored
the rebellion put down. and the Federal au
thority. once m ore respected. The officers
appointed by the President were acce lied
by the Mcrmons, and order and submission
have reigned ever since. -sgs.
! u Therefore, Mr.. Speaker, is there ANYTHING
so extraordinary in my proposition to send
commissioners to treat with the Southern
States4 We are told almost weekly that
the rebellion Is nearly crush ed out. that we
have every advantage over h ese Insurgents.
Is 1t wrong, therefore; is it unwise Is il un-
patriotic to pursue precedents that have
been set by the Father of h is Country and
by his successors in Office?
Mr.. Speaker. we wilIhave to treat with
these Rebels. This war, commenced with ;
out cause. pro secuted without glory, will
end in disintesration and destruction If ear
ried on for another Administrations. Peace
mus: come. The President told you SO in
his inaugural address, Then, sir, he was
uninAuenced by the fanatical teac bipqs of a
desperate crew who have other objects at
heart than the welfare, the unity, the pros
perity. the harmony, the freedom of the
American people. God grant that the day
OF peace may come soon. That it will come
sooner or later we all know. The powers
ofaggression aud Of resistance are alike fail.
ing Instead ofsupply:ng our armies through
patriotic enthusiasm, our Government is re-
sorting to bribery ane force-bribery by the
system ofbountes, force by CONSUMPTION. 1t
is deducible by mathematical calculation
that another term of three years will find
US in condition where it is impossible, Ell
ther by force or bribery, to inspire your ar.
mics with sufficient power of aggression to
conquer the Southern people. Peace must
and will ensue. = --1t''' IS
Ten. Jackson is frequently referred to as
having favored harsh measures toward the
South, and yet we have the auth )rity of
his friend and cotemporary, Thomas II.
Benton, in his Thirty Years ia the Senate,
to the contrary. Il
The authority says that
Many thought that he ought to relax in
his civil measures for allaying discontent
while South Carolina held the military atti.
tude OF armed defiance to the United States
-and among them Mr.. Quincy Adams
But he adhered steadily to his purpose of
going on with what justice required for the
relief of the South, &c." -
(Benton's Thirty Years View page $685.
Volunteers when a Senator in CONGRESS-
said on the 1st OF March, -1847, in a debate
upon the Three Million bill, that "disunion
is better than intestine war;" aud again, in
the same speech, that
Civil war has no am elioratious It Is
pure. unmixed Decentralization. It dissolves
all national and domestic ties. 1t renders
selfshuess more odious by wedding it to ha
tired and cruelty. The after generation
which reaps the bitter harvest of intestine
war is scarcely less to be commiserated than
that by whose hands the poisonous seeds
are sown. Less. far less than these would
be disunion." as
MIR. Speaker, I again ask, when shall this
war cease? Shall it be when the whole /
American people, North and South utterly |
broken down. dispiritsd, and politically dis t
shallsarise sins their power, and /
throw of on both sides the uu-
faithful rulers who use th em to the destruc-
:ion and annihilstion of their national libe--
ties and existence? Or, more fearful still
shall it be when despot;sm has become or
ganic and fixed. and all opposition of
thoughts aud expression shall be driven
from Congress and elsewhere, and the freed |
men Of the South becc mes the rnaster of
the freemen Of the North? Or shall il be |
DeOnIQ
OF the Eevolied States, as such, shall cease
10 exist, the former be subverted, aud the
after replaced with Northern Abolitionists? /
In short, Mr.. Speaker, will the partv in /
power make definite conclusion and aereo I
ment among themselves as to the conditions |
upon which this war shall cease, its horrors /
terminate, and all tn consequences wheth-
er good or bad. shall be fully known and /
understood? We must have peaee--a last
ing peace-basedl upon the Constitution I
aud cemented by the Union.
Burke. that immortal patriot whose in
spired language love to quote, said, March /
l775. sg o7s - a5.g-sr.
THE proposition Is peace. Not peace /
through the medium OF war; not peace to
be hunted through the labyrinth Of intricate
and endless negotiations; not peace to arise |
out OF universal dscord fomented from
principle in all parts of the empire; not
peace TO depend on the periodical determi-
nation of perplexing questions, or the pre-
else marking the shadowy boundaries of a /
complex governrn ent. 1t is simpls peace;
sought in its natural course and its ordinary
haunts; IL is peace sought 10 the sririt Of |
peace, and laid in prin ciples purely pacific. I
propose by removing the ground of the
difference, aud by restoring the unsuspect- |
ing confidence Of the colonies in the mother /
to give permanent satisfaction to I
your people; and 0a- from scheme of rnl- I
ing by discord) to reconcile them to each /
other in the same act. and by he bond of
lhe very same interest which recnncilss them
10 British Government"
Again; ELS eft'1e s'aE4
% II mean to give peace. Peace implies
and where there has been I
dispute reconciliation does in
manner always imply coneession on the one
part or on he other. ] 10 Estate of things /
quake no difficulty in Affirming that the
proposal ous htto originals from as 81 Great
and acknowledged force Is not impaired /