New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-25

raise the men and money we now neod' We
see not how this question can be CONSIDERABLY
answered in the negative. nor how any one can
fail to perceive that any possible proposal oil
Peace from Richmond must be 50 shaped as
to conduce to the restoration of Peace and the
Union. There may bes wisdom far beyond ours
IN tho premises; if so, it scars quite above the
popular apprehension.
But, even though the results actually at
tanned fall deplorably short of what might have
been. we hold that great step has been gained
toward Peace by eciting tho Presidents mani
festo. Let us reconsider 1t;
EXECUTIVE MANSION. WASHINGTON. July IS. 1864.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN.
Anv proposition which embraces the rcstora-
tion of Peace. the integrity of the whole Union,
and the abandonment of Slavery. and which
comes by and with an authority that can con-
trol The armies now at war against the United
states. will DO received and considered by the
Executive Government Of the United States,
and will be met by liberal terms on other sub
stanta and collateral points, and the bearer or
bearers Of it shall have safe Conduct both
ways. ABRAHAM LlNCOLN.
Here the President insists upon but two
cardinal points, intmating that Oh all Others he
is ready and willing to treat on Liberal
terms. 4" This overture of the President
will, of course, be disseminated at the
South, and will go far to disabuse the
Rebel soldiers of the delusion, which has been
Sedulously inculcated by their ohicis, that no
terms can be made with the Government-that
they have no choice but that between persistent
fighting and unconditional surrender. Not one
tenth of those soldiers has any interest in Slavery
save to get rid of it while tens Of thousands of
them regard the Rebellion as inexcusable, and
know that its authors richly deserve hanging
:" But" they say, "we are standing between our
homes and devastation; between ruthless,
hostile soldiery and our wives and children;
and here wo must stand till wo die"
If the South really knew the actual
state of feeling at the North, the Rebellion
would not staId another month. The zanies
in the loyal States who talk ss though a
broad empire could be subjected to military ex-
ecution supply the venOmouS, desperate traitors
in Dixie with the very aiment they need and
we deeply regret that one Of the resolves of the
late Baltimore Convention seems calculated to
give them lift. Gen. Fremont did wise,
generous, manly act, in stamping instead Of
standing on the wholesale ConfscatiOn plank Of
the Cleveland Platform, thereby aiding to
smooth the path to peace. Mr.. Lincoln, in the
paper above given, has gone much further on
the same way. taking ground radically differ
ent from that of Unconditional Submission. His
indispensable bases Of peace are just rgh,-are
those on which il becomes him TO insist; though
il does not follow that the Rebels should be pre-
oluded from proposing any other nor that all
negotiation should be barred until they shall be
prepared to concede. as preliminary, all that Is
essentially in dispute.
Wesley, reproved by one Of his brethren for
the light, lively character of some Of the tunes
to which he set his hymns, wisely responded that
he disputed the right Of the devil to u monopoly
of all the best music. We feel very much like
this when we hear the most vocicrouS cham
pions of the snesking theft of Texas from Mex
ico the holder robbery Of New-Moxico and
California, the defenders of the Ostcnd Mani
festo, and of every atrocious. bloody-minded
aggression which has disgracet our country's
history, now grooming over the horrors OF War
and descanting on the Christian besscdness Of
Peace! What they really seek is rehabita-
ton of the Slave Power: if this War were only
making slaves instead of emancipating them
or if it were adding new empire like Texas to
the domain Of the slaveholders-they would OBJ
serve with complacency its prosecution through
cut the next ten years. 1t is not War that they
hate, but a war wherein Slavery is getting
worsted. But the hatred they affect, We feel;
and we would have tho people freshly assured
that We are struggling for National existence
against the most wicked and w8nton rebellion
that the world ever saw-that, if We continue
at war, it is only because a few months more of
wholesale agonies and devastations are the
necessary prelude to century of true, beneii-
cent Peace.
II seems to us that the time, if it has not
already como, must be near at hand, wherein
the North and the South will be ready to ex-
change glances otherwise than over the creSts
of their rival intrenchmcnts along the sights of
their respective muskets-a mode Of regard not
conducive to gcniality of temper, graciousness
of manner, or comeliness of visage. In that
day, the South will be made to comprehend
that the North requires the extinction of Slavery
in no envious, inimical spirt-requires it be-
cause its continued existence involves tho
cherishing of inbred though smothcrcd jeal. !
ousies, antagonisms, ntipathies-because cor