Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-10-12
From he South carollnIan.
arhep peace Question.

We publish this morning letter Of Vice.
President Stephens; giving his views upon
the question Of peace With the North, and
the agencies By which it may be brought
about. Sharing fully, as we do, the noble
sentiments 50 well expressed by President
Davis; with regard to the duty of every pat
riot to repel, first g all, the hated invader
from our soil, andEbeliesing that whipping
the Yankees is the only way to encourage .
peace sentiment at the North, we have seen
with notification and pain the positions
taken by one of the Representatives of our
State in Congress, Hon. Wv. Boyce,
and by the Vice President 5of.ithe Confode-
racy; on the subjsot;of peace. 1t will be
time enough to discusst The, ,propriety or the
policy of meeting the Yankeesin convention,
for ga peaceful conference and interchange
of views betweenequ and sovereign pow
ers;;H when, theproposition is made by their
President, and Congress- Such, an offer
neither Vice President Stephens nor Mr..
Boyee are simple enough to expect from
Abraham Lincoln and his supporters, and
we are not. told on what grounds they have
come to the conclusion that the Chicago as
semblage-a body powerless for good or
eyil-were disposed to make the Offer in
behalf Of the party they assumed to repre-
sent. Certainly their standard bearer, Nc.
Clellan, is very far from entertaining any
views of the kind, and his policy, aa,laid
down in his letter of acceptance, insists up
on reunion and reconstruction as the great
object of Yankee craftsmanship, and pro-
claims emphatically that nothing else will
satisfy him or his !Hbrave comrades" as he
styles the oft .well.thrashed mercenaries
with. whom he undertook the capture of
Richmond. Such being the real state Of
the case, and with half our territory over.
run by Yankee robbers, murderers and
house burners, it seems to us very, much
like trihing, for gentlemen occupying the
positions of Messrs. Stephens and Boyce to
discuss gravely propositions never dreamed
of by our enemies, and to take the empty
yaporings of a knot Of of6ce:seeking Yam
kee politicians as theabasis Of an. extended
argument in favor of an imaginary confer
ence. When such a a-propositioh as the one
limited at by Mr., Stephens does come
through,an authoritative channel, it will be
tantamount to an ntaeknowledgment of8oar
independence as2an "equal and sovereign
power''-+an acknowledgment which would
render the solution of all other questions
vastly easier and simpler than that distin-
guished but eccentric individual seems to
imply in his. letter ;but which, to our less
sanguine ormore short.sighted vision, ap.
pears as distant to-day asit was year ego.
What effect the defeat of Sherman and the
continued battling of Grant would have up,
on the Yankee mind, is a totally different
affair. Mcclellan, if elected, would doubt
less be disposed to reconsider his celebrated
letter, and to forget his "gallaut comrades"
for while, in order to wind up what his
practical constituents would call decidedly
'sbad job" To that conclusion, we have
no doubt, they will all come in due time ;
but we humbly submit that few of those
laundering arguments, which Lee and Beau
regard know so we'll how toimpress upon
the enemy, will do more to hasten the COM
ing s'good time" than thousand such let
ters as Mr. Stephens or Mr.. BoFce's.