Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-07-28


washington Correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1854
To the Editor of the ENQUIRER:
Since closed my let. er at noon. a new
sensation has appeared on the political
board. The word Peace las been uttered
this afternoon as If it had some signif-
canoe. We find that two prominent friends
OF the Administration have, with the direct
approval and aid of Mr. Lincoln, visited
Richmond, held conferences with j eff. Da-
Wis ana MS Secretary of War, and returned
highly pleased with the courtesy with which
tney were received and treated at the Con-
federate Capital. Then on the other side.
we have the correspondence between certain
Confederate gentlemen. Horace Greeley and
the President in relation to a restoration of
the Union by means of peace. No other talk
has oeen heard this afternoon, except about
these two missions. Though neither of the
quasi com missloners-those from the North
to Richmoud, nor those at Niagara had
c11ciat authority, yet each acted with the
consent OF its respective government; and
that Is mode often resorted to bv beIliger-
ent parties, 70 ascertain the sentiments of
the other preliminary to regulate authorized
negotiations
The Com missioners to Richmond were
Colonel Jos. +. Jaques, of the I'D Illinois
volunteers. and Mr.. Edward Krke, a gen.
tleman OF some literary pretentions and it is
we'll understood they went to Richmond to
ascertain, ifthe war could not be stopped bv
return o: the seceeded states on terms
alike honorable to both parties. They were
in Richmond three days, had free confer
ence with Mr.. Davis and his Secretary, Mr..
Benjamin, on the subject of tbe cir visit, were
treated Ike gentlemen, and returned in
good spirits.
You have doubtless read the result of the
attempt made by the Southern Commission
ers, at Niagara, to obtain an interview with
Mr.. Lincoln. 1t was a failure. The con-
trast between the conduct of the authorities,
at Richmond, towards Messrs. Jacques and |
Kirke, and that of Lincoln to Messrs. Clay
and Holcomb, is painful one to the people |
OF the North. 1t shows there are gentlemen |
at the head Of the government at Richmond, |
and boor a. the head of the government /
at Washing. The former are not afraid to
be talked to on the subject of our Difficult
ties by even unofficial visitors, while the
latter seems to think that not only his own
dignity, but the cause of the North itself,
would be compromised by conference with
gentlemen from the Confederaoy. Human
lty and civilization will accord to the au-
thorities at Richmond the need of praise
for theiI willingness to listen to any person
on the subject of peace who comes within
their lines, by permission of the President
OF the United States.
Mr.. Lincoln lays down a fnalty, which,
without being first acceded to by the South,
will preclude any conference for a settle
ment. That fuality is the unconditional
of slavery. He will not listen
70 peace on any other terms. He will not
hear what the South may have to say. He
closes all avenues of Cancellation except
through that one door. He says the war |
shall not stop until the blacks are all freed,
He says that this is not a war for the Union.
but a war for the negro. He says that he
orders corscriptions, that men are torn from ,
their families tn cir relatives and friends not
10 restore the Union, but TO free the negro. ;
He admits that we are making an enormous
public debt. that will bring untold sorrow
upon toll and labor, not for our liberty or
The protection of our government, or the
of our tional life, but to make !
the negro like the white man. He sets up
a condition precedent which must be per- 3
formed before the seeded States can return
70 the Union, and which be has no authority
% i'm pose. This war is to be continued for '
10 other object than the abolition of slavery, a
Ar. Lincoln gives that to be distinctly un- 8
lerstood. The country will know hereafter 3
precisely what the war is continued for I
Every soldier will know what be Is lighting b
or, and every one that is killed, will lose q
lis life not for the Union, the Stars and a
Stripes but Cor the negro. t
CLEVELAND. /