The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-05
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.

From NE Times.
i The commander Of Fort Morgan asked for
8terms. "The only terms We can make are
unconditional SWreRder,n was the reply. Thus
Eearragut in the last stage of the war reiterates
he words Of Grant in the first. These words
make the rule Of the war. There s no different
policy known in either army or navy. The
champions of our flag invariably refuse to
Accept anything short of an absolute yielding TO
=. They will have the Rebel bunting lowered
lat TO the earth before making = single couces-
Blon. Ihey are too jealous of the authority and
flignlty oi the nation to chatter, in its name, with
tetant treason.
What these old heroes do, the Union party
neans TO do. 1t, too, insists upon an uncond-
ional surrender TO the national authority us a
preliminary to the consideration of any minor
Question. Precisely here lies the prime distinc-
lon between the Union party and that opposed
10 IL. The Coppeiheads are for treating with the
Confederate" authorities without requiring from
khem any previous recognition of the supremacy
bf the old Constitutional Government.
So far as there is any recognition at ALL as
condition precedent to discussion, they are, in
&act. the ones TO make it. The Chicago platform
p recognition for the nonce-a recognition
ENodd hoc-of Confederate independence, and, if
&ully carried out, would practically end in re-
Il 8ognitiOn for all time IL carefully avoids the
Wyord rebofiOH and every other implying that
here is any allegiance due from the men who
are fighting our Government. 1t asks that ''im.
Hnediate efforts be made for cessation Of hos
&tll the States"
i Such efforts would involve diplomatic inter
UfOurse with the JEFF. Davis government" Tha
n itself IS recognizing that it has u certain civil
status. That government" has declared, again
md again, that It will listen to nothing so long rs
What II calls the Invaders" are on It's soil. If We
withdraw our armies, it is a recognition on our
part that they have been invaded, and that the
n confederate soil is indeed independent soil II
President" Davis should waive this point, and
T. isten 10 the propositions of President Mcclellan
Tor an "ullimate convention" 1--WE say Presi-
y lent Mcclellan, for no other President could so
amper with the national sovereignty, the Con-
ederate Chief cOuld take no action upon them
inder the Montgomery Constitution, by virtue
bf which alone he holds his place, except by in
lucing the Confederate Congress to authorize,
through State action, another sovereign convcn.
ion Of the "Contederate" States, which alone
ould determine whether the Montgomery Con.
Etitution should be abandoned, aud whether they
Fould go into convention with the United States
% construct new constitution that shall be COM
mon TO both.
That is the only possible method for accom-
Fishing what the Chicago platform proposes
pur Government could not more completely re.
EoSnize the independence Of tho "Confederacy,"
or the time, than by suspending its military
ection in order that the Confederate President"
he "Coniederate Congress-" and a sovereign
Convention of the "COn ederate States" should
fome to their respective decisions upon the ques.
ion of Can ultimate convention" of all the
states. It would be practical acknowledgment
hat these authorities had discretion and authority
e. the premises.
u Should any of these decisions be adverse, or
*hhould the States now composing the "Confede-
!: Iacy" refuse in the end TO accept the new con-
tilution adopted by the "utimate convention"
here is no power on earth that would not in
simultaneously acknowledge their distinct ma
q ionality, on the ground that our own action had
= Already estopped us from denying il.
OF course, there are many honest supporters of
nf no ugIa ~
platform But II is because they do not think az all
+ They assumethat peace on the basis of the Union
H will come OF itself, simply by our expressing
. readiness for II. Their idea of an Cultivate con-
eention' Is simply such convention as might
pave been summoned in former times, involving
lothing but regular constitutional procedure,
= equiring nothing but the sanction of three
olirths of the States 10 make the amendments
T. binding upon all, and leaving the old Constitu-
ion "the supreme law of the land, )" il the amend
nents should not receive that ratification. This
Ioton is a sheer delusion.
The "ultimatc convention" even II Il ever could
be realized, of which there is not the slightest
likelihood in the way contemplatedAby the Chi
ago platform, would be convention OF States
ri representing two distinct nationalities and the
Failure to agree would leave both in the same
condition as before the convention. Having
yivsn up the old constitutional authority, so far
IS regards these Confederates, we should have no
Night to make fresh war upon them for still assert
= |hg their independence, and would have no alter
native but TO yield them that independence.
JEFF. Davis could not possibly find any easier or
Il cheaper road TO reach what he has been so long
n vain struggling for, than that which the Chi
ago Convention has designated.
But the loyal majority of the North do not in
lend that this road shall ever be opened. The
bath OF peace these Confederates must travel
|pegins at different point altogether. It Is Union
ground from the start The very first step involves
submission, and complete submission, 10 the old
sutholity. Thus only can we have q cleer and
ure way TO the adjustment of all the questions
he war has generated; and thus only can our
nationality be kept secure and invlolate.