The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-09-15
TIPTON, IOWA, SEPTEMBER Is, 1864.

tuotu W itottu W auy P''f'eai VI fNu'S
except on the ground OF southern inde.
pendence; "and when | say southern in
dependence" he remarked, II mean to
include ia our Confederacy. Maryland. all
of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ar
kansas and misunderstanding less"
That is Mr. Davis notion Of peace-a
notion in which. we are sorry to say, he
has more than one cosjutor here at the
North. Most of the peace men proper
hold the same notion, if they dared to
avow it. But there arc others, thank
Heaven, whose opinions in regard to the
right terms of peace do not chime in with
those Of Wood aud Vallaudisham. The
army, for instance, has quite other con.
v,ctious. These are well expressed n a
few simple verses by "Private Miles o..
Reilly" which We reprint "a another col
umn. Their whole view, indeed, is ad.
mirably condensed in the cry, "Down
with the rebel rag, and up with the flag
of the Union.' "Do what you please
with the negroes; put them in the army
if you want free them if you ike-we
care little or nothing about that-what
we want is to wipe ont that fag which
has no place on this continent" There
are several hundred thousand such corA-
est citizens face to face with the enemy,
who mean "to fight it ont, como what
lay This party, it must be admitted,
has great Influence, not only by its votes,
but by the letters which its members are
constantly writing home to urge more dc,
votion to the cause.
As for the people at homc-that large
part of them which is not party ridden,
but thinks and works, and will vote stead,
ily for the good of the country, for its
honor and its permanent safety-thcrc
terms of peace are, perhaps, more felici.
tously expressed by a phrase attributed
by President Lincolu: "The country will
ask everything for sccurity-nothing for
revenge This is the sentiment of the
great mass Of the people at home who
love American institutions and hope t.
preserve them for their children 1t is
a watchword with which any party may
appeal to the nation, for it inc!u les eve
rything that an honorable, proud and lib
erty.loving nation could desire for itself
while it excludes everything that it ough,
to avoid. Everything for security, and
nothing for revenge" This is a far more
honorable watchword, even, and far more
conciIiatory, than that which expressed
our just claims during the Mexican war
when we demanded ''indemnity for the
past and security for the future" Now
we ask only security against the recur
renee of such "a war, against the lntrigueS
! and wicked ambition of tho class in the
Suutn which forced this war upon tho n a
ion. Could any people ask less? vii
the American people accept less? Doe
any one believe they will, with their eye:
open, grant terms which viii not ensure
their perfect security for the future? Or,
on the other hand, does any cne suppose
them base enough to insist upon mere
"revenge'
But will Mr.. Davis and his compan
ions, the leaders of the rebellion, accept
these terms? Not they. They have re-
fused them already. They will have the
Union destroyed They will have "Ma
ryland, all of Virginia, Tennessee, Ken
tucky and Missouri not to speak of n
Orleans and Louisiana. What them
. Their power must be broken that is tho
only way to peace; and when these south
ern masters are swept away, when they
no longer hold the people in bondage
then those people, We are sure, will read
lily respond to the fair aud liberal offer
which Mr.. Lincoln has reduced to sc
beautiful "A formula. a.-Nen York Ercning
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