Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-15


Journal, for saying that there is such yearning
for peace, such weariness of strife and blood
shed, and such dread Of cost and taxation, that
it will require immense labor and constant appeals
to the national pride and latent patriotism to hold
the people up to the sublime work in which the
country is now engaged" 1t might DO supposed
that he alludes primarily to the opponents Of the
Administration. But not SO. Writing from this
city to his Journal under date of last August 9Th,
he says:
The question Of peace is still one Of the loading
themes discussed in oil circles and finds among the eak
among those ohese Lore for the Union is o0ervidden By
their sympathy for the robe hon. preference for diOided
Union rather Than further prosecution Of ihs mar The
latter for such basis because it 10 what
the rebels desre and the former hint it the ground
that it would be better to have Northern Republic with
out slavery than reconstructed Union with IT, There
are fear more who thiHk this thought than utter IT, be-
cause there arc probably than think who
have hesrOve Of country and who would be content
with any national boundaries which would them in
diviauAl peace and plenty" t1
The men who are for peace upon the basis of o
divided I MON " because this is what the rebels
desire" and the men who are for peace upon the
basis of a divided Union because it would be
better to have Northern Republic without slavery
than reconstructed Union with it," are men who
represent the extremes Of public opinion which
alike meet in their opposition to Gen. Mcclellan.
The Tribune and the Daily News of New York,
the organ of the Republican party and the organ
of "peace Democracy" can agree in their oppo-
sition to the patriotic soldier who declares that
I" the UNION must be preserved at all hazards"
but the Union only as based on the Constitution,
which is its bond and symbol.
Itwould be erroneous to suppose that Mr.. Greeley
favors any such reconstruction of the Union. He
looks to the late manifesto of President Lincoln
and to the resolutions of the Baltimore Convention
for his basis Of the Union and his conditions of
peace, though he is forbearing enough to say that
he will not "prescrbe terms to the Government"
On this topic he says:
As to the terms of peace, do not prescribe terms to
the Government only know that the desire and pur
pose of the Government that the Union shall be restored
speedily Ms it may be, that it may be thoroughly
done and Ib The President does that Union based
unire sal liberty is the only certain The only true Union
Cheers We have made CON promise after compromise,
aud daubed with untempered mortar and patched up
trivances for reconcilng slavery with liberty but when
this country shall be free country, ard when
shall call another his slave, then the Union will be
recognised geographical and political necessitya
blessing, and not burden TO the nation and you could
no more get up party to dsso the Union than to dis
grounds which desire peace Iprfscribe terms,
but sag that Of all The to the way proposed by
the baltimore platform and sanctioned By The President is
the true icay to peace
1t is but few days ago that we were informed
by Mr.. Raymond, of the New York Times, who
assumes to be an official expositor of the Presi-
dents views, that Mr.. Lincoln was not at sll
pledged by any thing contained in the "Niagara
Manifesto" or by any thing he had ever ordered
or declared in his proclamations of freedom, to
insist on universal liberty as condition of peace.
And it had been supposed that Mr.. Greeley, for
the sake of peace, would make concessions to
slavery. To this effect Mr.. Forney wrote as fol-
lows on the 25th of August to the Philadelphia
Press
Hon. Henry j. Raymond the chairman Of the National
Union Committee, reached Washington this morning, and
has been in consultation all day with the President the diff
erent members OF his Cabinet and The other friends of
the Administration of the Federal Government Governor
Raymond is statesman of enlarged comprehension and
thorough experience He has not only been educated in
the legislative school, but graduate OF that most trying
of all trias, the editorial chair and therefore brings
the task of conducting Presidential campaign 10 the
tex of unparalleled civil war tho best and most useful
qualities. In these days, when independent journalists
take vast responsibilities when they be cow
ards in their esteem they fear to speak great
Sues and doing must be assad by suspicious and liz
norant partisans-such man Henry j. Raymond is
treasure which the friends Of Union aud honorable peace
cannot too highly prize. And 10 this ausiUn refer TO the
misconstructons placed in upon the
article under the title of The Road TO Lasting Peace,
which appeared in the Washington Morning Chronicle of
the 10th Of August and the Phadepha Press Of the 18th
Of the same month. What every body thinks about it
would be folly to refuse to spesk about North and South
the humbest and the discussing the problem of
the easiest road TO peace All desire it, aud when
article which appeared in the Chronicle and the Press
above referred to, did than to print something
of what the loyal mind thinking at that very moment
1t s easy to misunderstand public who desires
ce misunderstood on the hand and msnterpreted on
the other. Gov. Raymond will be found think on
higher plane and holder platform than that which
sumed Indeed, hs articles in the New York Times have
been thoroughly favor of peace the ground Of
national unity, than any thing have written Aud why
Because be has looked the whole field and hiss per-
ceved that the stronger party, aud the couquerng
party and the party that TO win in the end
afford to offer generous and magoanimous terms to the
people Of the South who, however ernng, still
brethren-bone of our bone and flesh out flesh Mr..
Greeley himse the great antisapery leader ,oho
manded and demanded the emancipation proclamation, is
nop, Ibetiepe ong TO take any ground Consistent NTH
the National dignity 10 onciinti0n beuecn e
tioo eononding sections NGy, polent presuup.
fion that Mr. Greeley ,oouM b DHitng to ignore that
proclamation IN order 10 sr~h reconciliation We
not fighting foreign foe. The blood poured 10
this for liberty mneles with the blood that IL poured
ence, ard if change this latter sentiment the
belief that Southern Independence be better main
tanned In the old Union, uhv should all tbs issues
cspt that only Of national nnitp BE- entrusted 10 National