Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-30

peace mat comes from tuS HpEtAs AHeJ
ought to understand, If they do not, that
there are two parties there, one OF which is
in and the other out; and that the party
which is out is trying to get in. The party
which is in is the parry which Is prosecuting
this war. The party which is out, consti-
| tutes two parties Of the most opposite sen
timents. One of them is more hostile 70 US
than Lincoln's party. The other Affects 70
be for peace, and uses the peace cry as q
weapon against Lincoln. II they combine
at all, which is extremely doubtful 1t will
be for the purpose Of expelling the present
incumbent "a very difficult job, and get
ting possession of the spoils; which are,
beyond computation, enormous, and Tor
no purpose of patriotism. Should they
even succeed, which We hold 70 be nigh
akin to miracle, il is very doubtful
whether we should have peace. Tbs pres
ent war causes disbursement of Q thou
sand millions year. We doph very
much whether there. Is any party In Y4n-
ksedom possessing virtue enough TO lesist
the temptation of handling such sum,
aud the successful party must toregs all
hope of doing SO If it put sn end y the
war.
The New York Herald, the otherday,
advised Lincoln to send commissioners 70
treat of peace without raising the book
sde or Withdrawing the troops. OF course
IL knew, and acknowledged that it NEW,
that such proposition would not be lis
tened to. But it of its own accord, explAin-
ed what It proposed to effect 1t wasnoth-
ing more nor less than trick "to tale the
wind out Of the sails of the peace plrty."
Every proposition from this quarter par
takes more or less of the same char
acter. Even If we expected anything from
81, =
think it not at all advisable 70 mix 10 our
cause with their proceedings, If thgE can
really, in any manner whatever, be ol SER
vice 70 the establishment Of peace, itmust
be solely on condition that they keepsloof
from all correspondence or associltion,
or suspicion of correspondence or astOcia- |
ton with any party in the Confederate
States. The bare suspicion of COLLISION
would destroy their usefulness at onte. In |
that view of the case we cannot see that
the interference OF Mr.. George Sanders |
and his colleagues is calculated to produce |
anything short of unalloyed evil.
II iB humiliating-we had almost said |
degrading-in us to be crying out for |
peace. We are the party Wrongedi we are |
the party assailed; we are the party acting |
still, aud always have acted, on the defen- |
siVe. The highest authority known to the |
laws of our country has repeatedly declared |
that we are ready to make peace as soon as |
the enemy shall have ceased 70 make war |
upon US. What more can we do or say
without placing ourselves in the attitude |
of suppliants to power which has more
than once spurned our offers, even upon |
subjects not in the least connected with |
peace. Lincoln is the man, and the only |
man, who is authorized by the Oonstitu-
ton of the United States to appoint COM
.missioners to treat Of peace. Any p1opo-
sition from this side, 70 be OF any avail, |
must be made to him. And who is pre- |
pared TO place our country at his footstool, |
or who does not see that, by doing SO, we
leave 1t in his power to prescribe the terme.
AS he himself is the aggressor, by this
course we acknowledge him as conqueror.
Are we prepared to make this ackuow-
ledgement2 Certainly We are not. No
party in the COnfederacy is ready for that.
Then the only thing we can do is to keep
on beating his armies until events, wheth.
er occurring here or within his own terri
tories, force him to make the proposals.
Then we can meet him with the only an
swer it is possible for us to give-@ithdraw
your fleets and armies, treat on the basis
of independence and integrity of bounda-
ries, and we are ready to send commission
ers to settle all matters of minor consider
alton.