Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-07-30
The Tribune on the Peace Of Com
ference.

ference.
The y. Y. Tribune does not believe the
recent peace negotiations" at niagara is to
be regarded as altogether fruitless. 1t says {;
But, even though the results actually at
tanned fall dcplprably short of what might
have been, we hold that a great step has
been gained toward peace by ehcitipg the
Presidents manifesto. Let us reconsider II:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1854.
TO WHOM Vt MAY CoNCEHS.
ANY proposition which embraces the re-
steration of peace, the integrity of the whole
Union; and the abandonment o: slavery. and
which comes by and with an authority that
can control the armies now at war against
the United States. will be received and con-
sidered by the Executive Government of
me United States, and will be met by literal
terms on other substantial and collateral
points, and the bearer or bearers of it shall
have safe conduct both ways.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Here the President insists upon but two
cardinal points. intimating ihat on oil others
he is ready and willing to treat on "Bberal
terms" This overture of the President will,
COViSt Dt hlsSCiillhhSJtA lii EiN A'''h' INV
will 90 far to disabusc the rebel soldiers vi
the delusion, which has been sedulously in
culcatcd by their chiefs, that no terms can
lie made with the Govcrnment-tha they
have no choice but that between persistent
fighting and unconditional surrender Not
onc-tenth of those soldiers has any interest
in slavery. save to get rid of it; while tens
of thousand of them regard the rebellion as
~ h..f t. lanr
richly deserve hanging. But they say
1--WE are standing between our homes and
devastation between ruthless, hostile sol
dicrv, and our wives and children; and
here we must stand till we die If the
South really knew the actual state of feeling
in the North the rebellion would not stand
another month. The zanics in the loya
States who talk as though broad empire
could be subjected to military execution
supply the venomous. desperate traitors il
Dixie with the very ailment they need, ant
we deeply regret that one ot the resolves o
the late Baltimore Convention seems calcu
lated to give them lift. Gen. Frcemon
did Il wise, generous, manly act, in stamping
instead of standing on the Wholesale conhs
cation plank of the Clcavcland platform
thereby aiding to smooth the path to peace
3 MI. IslllCplIl. III tIlS IapCi d'''NS SiN''' ''
gone much farther on the same way, taking
ground radically diflcrant from that OF un
conditional submission. His indispensable
bases of peace are just right-arc those ol
! which it becomes him To insist; though /
does not follow that the rerelS should III
prccluded from proposing any other, no
that all negotiation should be barred unit
they shall be prepared to conccde, as pre-
liminary, all thai is essentially in dispute.
1t seems to us that the time. if il has no
already come, must he near at hand. wherciI
! the North and the South will be ready Il
/ exchange glanccs otherwise than over tn
crests of their rival entertainments along tn
/ sights of their respective muskets-a mod
of regard not conductive geniality of TEN
per, graciousness of manner, or comeGnes
of visagc. In that Gay the South will b
made to comprehend that the North require
| the extinction of slavery i'll no cnvious, in
/ imical spirit: requires it because its continu
/ cd existence involves the chcrshing of in
/ bred though smothered jealousies, antagu
/ nisms, antipathies; because cordinal Union
/ lasting peace, are attainable only thrnug
/ homogeneous institutions, based on libcrt
for all. And, if the specifically aboritiv
effort at Niagara shall have served to hastcl
/ by but week this most desired conSumma
/ tion, it will by no means have been mad
+ in vain.