, 1864-08-03
TuENIAGARA ACONFERENCE
Rebel View Of tho Peace NeGoetatlons-

Rebel View Of tho Peace Negotiations,
The Richmond Examiner, Of July &c, Ia.
the following comments upo1 tie NiasAr:
t conference:
For the first time we hare the pleasure
Of heartily upprov,De 4 state paper OF Abr4
ham LtpColn. II is his l-t!er addressed TO
whom it NAV concern, It concerns Messrs.
Holcombe> {, C. Clay and George n. San
ders, and We would foudly believe, no other
! person OF persons whomsoeVer., When off,
| cious lndividua1e 20 creeping round the back
doors, aekitg interviews with Lincoln for
"a full interchange ofeenuments it gi7ea Us
| sincere qualification to see them spnrned,
yes kicked, from the said back door. To
| Abraham We deliberately say Bravo" or, If
he likes it better. BnliJ ~ ihtnk Of an ex-
member Of Ccngress--.for we say nothing Of
| the bird "necotiator' th:m selves
gratuifous1y, idly and unbldden, to receive
such an ienominious rebnff ut the hands Of
the FREQUENT budoon Of Illinois.
The eccentric procedure Of these two gen
tlemen has all the air Of device Of the in
genlous Sanders. He 1t was who, finding
Mr. Clay md Mr. Holcombe travelling in Can.
ada tor their health, and sojourniug At the
Clifton House, bethought him Of getting
them into 4 correspondence about peace;
and be 1t was Iho opened 1t himself By letter
to no 1ess person than that sangainarY phil
lantbropist Horace Greeley asking him {Gree-
to Washington, Ind thence to Richmond. It
appears that Greeley, ct first thinking this
Wse real embassy to offer enbmiseion, ca
gerly promised the safe conduct In the Presi-:
DENTS name. They replied that they were
not exactly and altogether plenipotentfaries,
disclosed in the correspondence were com
muntcatcd to Richmond, they or somebody
elae would be invested with full powers. And
what were the circumstances disclosed? We
learn this from 4 long letter of Messrs. Claj
and Ho1cofnbe, written after their repulse,-
The circumstances disclosed were nothing in
the world except Greeley's unauthorized Of
fer OF = gaae.cocduct. They say-and, in
reading what they say, remember that 1t is
two eminent Confederate gentlemen ad-
dressing a paltry Abohtiopist editor,
not having the presumption to write
to the Emperor Abraham himself" ex-
acting no conditions but that we 4hould be
duly accredited from Richmond, as bearers OF
propositions looking to the establishment OF
peace, thus proposing basfs for conference
as comprehensive as We could desire, It
seemed to us that the President opened
door that had previously been closed against
the Confederate States for full interchange
Of sentiments, a free discussion Of conflicting
opinions and an untrammelled effort to re.
move all causes Of controversy By liberal ne
eottations. What right had they to even
allude to propositions looking to: the estab-
lisbment of peace? Who commissioned
them to interchange sentiments with Lin
coln9 And what do they meao by causes OF
controversy and liberal negotiations. II
these ofBclous gentlemen had been received
at Washington, and had been accredited
from Richmond, we should have felt very
nervous on The subject Of those liberal nego.
tiations However, Linz ON, as soon as he
inf af
about that bacA door, surmislng that i. was
now partly open though "pEeg1ous1g closed"
aud parleylng with New York editor in the
In the hope Of getting admittauce-shnt up
the door with bang right in their three
noses, and warned them of by notice ITO
1t Is sug zested that perhaps the cunning
device Of Mr.: sanders was only eontrt-
vance for helping tue peace party In the
eEemy's country; TINT the ans yer of Mr..
Lincoln was just the very kind Of answer
which the '.many counsclled" George expect
ed, and that it Is to be used to show how
1erociously and unreleotlngly the present
YaDkte administration Is bent on war, aud
repnlses the slightest htnb of peace. As
usual with Euch excessively cunning schemes,
this one not only defeats itself, but helps the
cause which 1t was possibly intended to
damage. To ezhiblta Ell senator and mem
ber Of Congress Of the rebel States thus
the footstool of the Emperor Of the Yah'oos,
whining and sniyelling about peace and s'lib-
eral negotiations, land haughtilY refused eycn
adm'ttance to the sovereign presence, will
se1ve, not the peace, but the war party, be-
cauee It will be used to create the Impression
that the Confederacy must be in the agonies
OF death when two such distinguished lests.
lators make SO pititul an attempt to reach
the ear Of offended majesty. Il such was
the Idea, then In this case, as IN the other,
s.thosewhom 1t may concern'' have got what
they deserve.
Has any one seen the Reverend Colonel
jacques, and one Edmund Ktrke? What are
the detectives about? Here have been two
FptE, manifestly spies, ''at the Spottswood
Hotel, Richmond, on secret mission;" ard
now, Instead Of being. In Castle Thunder,
Klrke and the Rey. Colonel sre aeain in their
Washington correspondents about their
three days entertainment in Richmond, and
about 1.-TWO interviews" which they say
they bad with hi. Davis, They cannot dis.
close for the preeent''-those deep diplo-
At thee ns iintele~s nat
ling fact-7"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
combined the two objects Our passport
system, nc fear, ts but little protection; and
the DETECTIVES arc not sufficiently yisilaut.
Howsoever that may be, there Is now GER
fatnly reneE Of those vague whisperings
Of peace which have several times before cir
culated through society. Many think that
peace is in the cir. Pence and ru1no1s of
peace float aronnd us, and mon dream Of
peace at night We have seen here unauthor-
lzfd and oMclous persons, both Union and
rebel, repair respectively North and South
about the same moment as 1t were, snufffng
peace, ns horses snuff water In the desert.
If gold declines little in New York, even
in the teeth Of military disaster, the Nl,as
ssyB 1t is because there Is sort of ins .inctiye
feeling that We are on the ere Of peace.
This 10 not unnatural; the plain avownls Of
the enemv's press four months ago, that this
YEARS. camp ign must be the final one, the
near..approach Of Lfnco1n's bloody term, the
imminent financial ruin Of the United States,
I'll combine to produce not s. much cou-
yictlon as pEesentiment that We are soon
to have pence,
And ii may be 60. Peace may Be nearer to
US than We think, and may come suddenly,
though one Cannot see precisely how. One
thing, however, is clear. So desirable IN
event cannot be FASTENED By amateur nego-
tiators "exchnnEing Bentlments,' with Mr.
Lincoln; nor by blockade runners thrustfng
"intersiews" on Mr.. Davis nor By any pos
sfble or conceivable correspondence between
George Sanders and Horace Greeley.
Eighth Quakers In Frederick County
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