Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-10-20

we'll tho people OF the North to be quite watchiu
and jealous OF their rights their common ancestors were
tries when and where it has existed has required not
constant vigilance and Jealousy but it has often required
the greatest prvatious and suengs and sacrifices that
people of States are ever subjected TO- Through such
ordeal ancestors passed 10 their struggle for the
principles which has devoved upon us thus to defend
and maintain.
But great as our urngs and sacrifices have been and
are which you alude they yet far short of the
like suerDgs and sacrifices which our fathers bore with
patience courage and fortitude in the crisis that tried
mems souls in their day These the virtues that sus
tanned them in their hour Of need Their astrous and
glorious example bids not to under estimate the price
less Inheritance they achieved for US at such coat OF
treasure and blood Great the odds We are stru
Cling against they are not greater than those against which
they successfully struggled In point of reverses our
dtion not to be compared with theirs Should Mobile
Savannah, Charleston Augusta Macon Montgomery and
not then be less hopeful than theirs was In the
darkest hour that rested their fortunes With wisdom
the part of those who control destiny in the Cab
net and 10 the field in outstanding and properly welding
at their command and in securing the hearts
and affections of the people in the great cause Of right and
liberty for which struggling, we could suffer all
these loses and calRmes and greater even, and st III
umph 10 the end.
At present. however, do not see as stated in the
outset that you any number OF persons in our po
ston can DO any thing towards insagurat1g any new
strife. The part is fairly and entirely defen
sve in its character How long will continue to be thus
wckedy and mercessly waged against US depends upon
the people of the North. Georgia, own State, to
whom we owe allegiance, has with great unanmity pro
claimed the principles upon which just and permanent
peace ought to be sought and obtained The Congress OF
the Confederate States followed with endorsement
of these principles All you and l. and others in pc
son therefore, do that line at this time is to
tain the movement already naugurated, and to the ut
most of ability to hold up these principles as the
surest hope of restoring soundness to the public mind OF
the North the brazen serpent held for the ut al
ing of Israel in the wilderness The chief aid and encour
agement give the peace party at the North is to
keep before them these great fundamental principles and
truths which alone will lead them and us to permanent
and lasting peace with possession and enjoyment OF
stutonal liberty With there principles once recognised
the future would take Of ITSELF aud there would be no
more war SO long as they should be adhered to- All ques
tiOns of boundaries confederaces, and unions
would naturally and easily adjust themselves, according to
the interests of parties and the exgences Of the times
Herein lies the true law Of the balance Of power and the
harmony Of States. Yours, respectfully,
ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS.