Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-06-27
From the PhiladplphIa American.

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j From the Philadelphia American % -yi
The Peace Democracy. ssa a
The Copperhead organs are melancholy
and resentful as they contemplate the cas-
ualties of war, and estimate in addition
the pecuniary damage. They pretend that
these torrents Of blood and this unparal
leled outlay of money might all have been
avoided by timely concessions to the slave
i power. A few more guarantees added to
the long list which seemed ample enough
to hold their bonGmen in tserVitude for.
| ever, would at length have exhausted all
| conceivable demands. Our slsVeholders
4 would have subsidcd into contentment and
tranquility. They would have ceased to
l drag into our national halls of legislation,
in season and out of season, by day ses.
4 sion and by night session, the still begin
ming, never. ending subject of the negro,
excIaiming all the while against the pesti-
lent abolitionists as the real agitators. Had
| We only stretched little further that ma.
tional completely with the gigantic Sim
had We been sufficiently jealous in endor-
sing the Dred Scott decisisn, and 80 intro
ducing slavery into every free State, as
/ we'll as into the territories-had; we done
all this, aud extended slavery from the At
4 lantic clear across to the, Pacific, then,
say our Oopperhead pacifcators, the chiv-
i Rlreus South would have been pacifed.
\. They would never have unsheathed their
bowie knives nor cooked their reyolvers In
Congressional halls; they would have fore.
borne to flourish gutta percha canes, and
become at once lamb like and genIleman.
ny. Only these, and nothing more, a
Islight extension of our complsisance, one.
or two more small cops to Oerberus, and
the savage dog would wag his tail most
I tgrsciously, and forever after forego his
rsmpsgioue behavior, re,5 57 1rt -il-
/ Surely none but very youthful or for
l getful copperhead could really believe in
the truth of this hypothesis. 1t proceeds
1 upon the supposition that a man atealer
and slave. breeder can be reasonable and
moderate like other men. If this were pos
lsible, he had not only been content, bnt
| gateful, for the scrupulous respest extended
| by the north to every southern right, and
! by those enlarged gratuities beyond that
I limitation which bought our conquered
| foreign land on all the outer edges of slave
/ dom. Thus did va shed the blood Of our
brave soldiers, and expend two hundred
millions of dollars to enlarge the slave pre-.
serve aud so far from placating the slave
| dealers, It was but three years afterwards
they broke into furious inVective, threat
/ ened immediateirsvolt, and extorted from
! us the Fugitive Slave law. b.
Can the leopard change his spots Will
the tiger lily grow up in plain colors 2
These slaVe.mongeEs were the same in
1850 as in 1860. Their vicious position
makes them 30. RemOrseless, cruel, ra-
pscious, ,exRcting, they possess in their
normal condition but feWsof the gentler at
tributes of humanity. Towards the weak
daRa 81,
l'degree towards their. equals they are
haughty and supercillious, sndss obtuse in
Il their perceptions that they Invariably mis-.
take couciliatory policy for an evidence of
weakness or cowardice. To this, their
grand mistake, may be attributed their
1 present disastrous plight-invaded and
oVerrun BY superior forces, crippled and
i prostrated in every branch of their indus.
try, and, as a last ,despairing hope, crouch.
ing behind breastWorks to escape total an
nihilstion. sag ,i.'H ziaH
But until this salutary lesson had been
etfectually impressed upon them-until
this positive application of cautery to proud
flesh, the isolated and ignorant planter,
with the poor white population whom sla.
very creates and degrades, would never
have been satisfied or peaceful. 1t was inn
possible that they should have consented
|
absolute: Even ON such terms
the leading traitors preferred disunIon, for
they resented our simple tolerance OF
slavery, and insisted we should adore it as
they did! They grudged ussthe pTOsperi-
ty arising from our own industry and
economy, and fanciedtha the rssnlt arose
from their impOYerishment. Therefore
they wanted no compromises, nor any ma.
tiouai onnexion-WhateVer--O Only. a few. OF
the managers, and these the least iufluen-
tial, wished to remain in the Union; and
therefore was it that the arrangement
which the copperheads declare was practi.
cal and advisable was beyond the compass
of any humanpower. The lovers of peace
essayed itin. every conceivable Wsy, and
were always thWarted by Ehe3,Yioleul
southern disunionists, who painted for in.
stant separation. " EEt
Nor have they at any subsequent time
( abandoned this claim, nor abated theiI
] enormons pEetensiops 70 force out of ths
Union those border States which repudiatt
the rebellion. There can be no peace nm.
, til sncb axtraVGGant d6msuds are put o.
i. the questiOn-none at all on the basis o.
divided republic, until the common en-.
emy can utterly defeat the Union 6Fmea
When he can perform that difficult task
} when he can take, back the moietY. of hii
| original territory wrested from. him By
. northern arms, it will be good time 4
enter on terms of separation. Then oul
CoppsEheads can come in, and aFrang,
, matters 70 Observation-Disclosures peael
) at any price and enduring any amount o
J shameful humiliation. But let any judi
. cions frisHd5of the basei .ConfsderAcy lOOl
/ at its present condition, and judge Wheth
q er that time of its triumph is likely sooI
8 to arrive. Like q fevered man expiring il
i convulsions, it may yet deal some dsspet
: ate blows; but little moro perseverance,
+ ON the psrt,of thoss who contend for th
. right, the adgaace Of few more fresl
j. regiments from onr untouched reserves ii
. numerous population, and the traitor
: must assuredly succumb 10 the riehtfu
e government. Herein only is to be fonn
). the true solution of this d;f6culE problem
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