New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-04
TO THE sINCERE FRIENDS OF
PEACE.

no Icace WHICH snail lay tIo hcOclbou duu ITO
canso PROSTATE at tho feet of tho Republic and
its constituted authorities. With these. we
have no affinity; with them. We do not take
counsel. But there are very many Others who
desire Peace fer its own sake-who arc heart
sick of the waste and carnage Of War, and who
ara disposcd.to welcome the return Of Peace on
almost any terms. These are told-withoat
shadow of authority-that the Emancipation
polcy is the only obstacle to realization OF
their chief desire-.hat, If that were given uF,
the Rebels would at once lay down their arms
and return to loyalty and the Union. These
representations are swaySng some minds aud
affecting many. To all thus influenced, We
would submit the following facts:
]. Throughout the South, it was understood
and agreed. prior to tho outbreak OF the Rebel
lion that Siqrry deliberately stahed its o,ea en-
isfence on The struggle IL uGs proroking. We
doubt whether an anti-SecesSion speech was
made in any Slave State between 1850 and 1861
which did rot affirm or imply that the defeat OF
the medtatod Rebellion must involve the down
fall of Slavery. This was the key OF the Union
Irosition-the chief argument against Secession.
Nor do we believe it was seriously controverted.
| II was abundan;Iy argued that tho North would
not fght-that Disunion would be pcaceably
consummatcd Slavery, in tho Confcder.
acy, would he stronger and safer than in the
Union--but rarely or never that Slavery
could fail in q determined effort to divide the
country, yet retain its vitality and power
Such playing for high stakes and pocketng
them when you have lost, is not the rule, even
at the South.
III. Emancipation rs Peace. II, by some via
iblc act of God, the shackles should fall to-
morrow from the limbs Of every slave, the
Rebellion would thenceforth be dead, and Dis
union an impossibildy. Our armies might DO
defea.cd-nay, they might be wthdrawn-yct
the Union would promptly reconsttutc itself and
be stronger and iirmcr than ever. by virtue Of
an irresistible law Of political grayitation. All
the devices of the internal regions could not
keep our people at war or at variance six months
longer If Slavery were but dead.
| H. On the other hand, Siarery rs DiSuHion
Others may see how TO make loyal State out
OF slaveholding South Carolina; We Go not and
cannot. How are you TO conciliate and recon-
stitste her as d State of our Union unless on
the basis Of a virtual admission that your War
for that Union has been utterly wrong' Unless
you mean simply to put the loyal States into
tho Confederacy by engraitng on orr system
oil Of its antagonist that il peculiar and essen
tial, how arc you to make South Carolina q
loyal slaveholding State Will the election of
Mcclellan or Nelson as President satisfy her
Gre might have had this in 1860; yet she de-
| lboratcy determined that she would not. She
broke up and defeated the Democratic party
expressly to be rid forever of the donghiace
rule wlich had so nauscatcd her. She did not
doubt that che might have prolonged ii; bat
that was just what she did not want. You
may lead her to that nasty water again; but
how will you make her drink' Unless your
Union shall be substantially and practically the
Coniederacy Of her choice, how are you to
reconcile her to it Just try to make hen set
when she does not want 10, before you under
take TO PIT slaveholding South Carolina back
into tho Union AZ our fathers made IT,.
". Abolih Slarery and all ia transformed.
The handful of aristocrats who have hitherto
boen South Carolina are South Carolina no
longer. New interests, new hopes. new forces
at once come into play. "a Canning said that,
in freeing Spanish America, he had called into
existence rev world TO redress the balance Of
the DID, so you have, by that net, called q new
South Carolina into being. A majority of her
human inhabitants are and long have been
slaves dumb, driven cattle, devoid Of power
and of hope. Every one Of these is Unionist
By inexorablo necessity, provided the Union
makes him Free. Then the poor whites, hitherto
living by sulIerance on the outskirts of great
mems plantations, unschooled, indolent. ragged
shiitlcss, miserable. because Labor was degraded
by Slavery, cease at once 10 be serfs and become
People. Education, Industry, Hope, Ambition,
will 60 transform them that, ere three years
shsil have elapsed, they will bless the Union
against which they mistakenly fought--as the
eulhor Of their new and higher life. But, while
Slavery lasts they will be The mere satellites
and echoes Of tho Shareholders
| V. Already amid the commissions and terrors
Of Civil War, Delaware Maryland Missouri,
are attracting Industry, Capital, Intelligence,
Enterprise, from abroad, upon the strength of
the prospect that they are soon to be Free.
Their soil is worth more even though supposed
in some danger of being tho border land Of two
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