Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-10-24

Ex-Congressman Boyee Of Outb Car.
OIIna Writes a Letter 10 Davis About
Peace.
The Richmond Rhiy publishes the let
ter Of Boyee, of which our readers have al
ready had rumors. After saying that
Davis should respond to the Chicago Con
vention, he says
"By satisfactory peace, I mean q
peace consistent with the preservation of
oar free institutions. By satisfactory
peace L do not mean that cessation Of hos
tilities which might, after protracted con-
test, result from the exhaustion Of the bel
ligerents, whereby the sword would fall
from their nerveless hands, their hearts a
prey 10 the fIries. Such a peace as that
would be but hollow truce, in which each
party would be incesssntly preparing for
a new, final and decisive struggle. The
peace which 1 mean is a peace which
reconciles the interests and the feelings Of
the belligerentsi a peace, in short, which
restores harmony"
He then proceeds to show that the "Con-
federacy" is drifting toward despOtism.
He says:
aHaus are not carried conseTiptioa to its
last limits. Is not every man IN the country
5ettoesn II and 30 subject to military a's-
tbo7ity /? None are errenlpt ereept 9spoa
Consideration Of public interest? Have we
not been compelled to lay direct taxes in
the very teeth Of the theory of the Consti-
tuition Have we not issued such vast
amounts Of paper money as to unsettle all
values Have we not compelled the hold
ers ofour paper money to fund it, or lose
one third Have we not seized all the
railroads2 Have we not destroyed rail-
raids and built others? Have we not es-
tsblished universal system of impress
ment of property at our own prices,
IN our own money! Have we
not established q Government mono
poly of the expectations of the great sta
pies of the country2 Have we not COM
PEELED those whom we permit to remain at
homo to execute bonds to furnish their
products 70 US at cur prices ? Have we
not suspended the writ of habeas corpus ?
Have we not introduced the passport sys-
tenn, which, we used think belonged to
the iron despotism of Europe? In short,
has not the Federal Government done
everything that a centralized military des-
potism could do? Indeed, if you were ap-
pointed Military Dictator, what greater
power could you exercise than yau now do?
alllde to these things not to complain of
them, but TO lament them. If you tell me
they are necessary, reply that is precise
ly my argument My argument assumes
and requires that necessity. It is plain
our Government exercises the powers of a
central despotism."
AS to despotism in the South compared
with what the copperheads call the "Lin-
coin dsspotism," Boyee says;
The truth is, that the Government at
Washington has not dared to exercise pow
er on the grand scale that our Government
has. The Lincoln Government has not
ventured to resort to an effective consorip-
lion; it hss not resorted to taxation as We
havej it has no tax in kind; il does not
prohibit imports; it does not monopolize
the exports it does not rely upon i'm
prisonment.
he then proceeds to talk to JEFF. Davis
about the necessity 'of giving the Demo
the party all the POl0sr zoe can" He pro-
poses to do it by accepting the proposal of
the Chicago. Convention, for convention
of the States, but demands, as did Vice
President Stevens, that they shall be asove-
reign" So does Hershell Y. johnson in
his letter. They all demand what would
be the virtual acknowledgement of
the independence of the rebels and
what would result finally in their
actual recognition. All these false lights
of peace which are hung out by these
Southern wreckers are only intended to be-
guile the ship of State upon the hidden
rocks which would dash her in pieces. The
people of the North want no reconstructed
Union which makes State paramount to
the Nation; which is only a "rope of sand"
liable to rupture at the caprice of any re-
bellious South Carolina. The "more per-
feet Union" which our fathers sought, is
not to be found in Oonfederacy of SOW
ereign States. It is to be found in grand,
undivided Union of all the States, indis-
soluble and eternally pledged to the main
tenanee of Liberty and the territorial in
tegrity of the Republic.