Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-11-26

News from the South.
WHAT Is SAID ABOUT PEACE.
lFrom the Savannah Republican, Nov. 81


tFrom the Savannah Republican, Nov. 81
We would be among the last to encour.
age false hope, or to lull our people in
to the letbargy that naturally results from
a sense of security. We have never main.
tanned that there was no hope of peace ex.
cept through the success Of our arms -
With the tide against us, there is no par
ty among our enemies, not even the most
confirmed OF "copporbcads' or slavery
propagandists," as the reasonable men at
the North are termed in dcrision, that
think for a moment Of accediug to any
terms of adjustment that we could accept
with honor. Victory is our sheet anchor,
and the only dependence. Our legions
triumphant and our flag floating proudly
in the face of conquered foe, will be the
only true harbingers Of peace. The North
will never let us 60 SO long as there is
hope left of restoring Upion that has
made them prosperous, rich and insolent.
All men at the North, not thoroughly
demented, must now see the utter hope
lessness Of the struggle to subdua us back
into an unwilling union with them. For
nearly four years have they strived with
all their vast powers aud unlimited resour-
ces to make us recast the declaration that
we are of right, and intend to be free,
separate and independent people, and to-
day finds us successfully resisting all their
attacks, and stronger by far than we were
at the beginning. The campaign of tho
present fall was to be the last throw Of
the die, and they gathered up all their
energies for the bloody task; and yet
where stand the respective armies to-day
Sherman, for while successful, has been
compelled to abandon virtually all his
conquests in Georgia, and is now engaged
in life and death struggle to save his ar
my from starvation on the one hand, and
destruction on the other. Grant, after
six months effort, such as an army never
made before, and causing the soil of Vir
ginia to turn red with the blood Of his
nearly Two hundred thousand slain and
wounded, is still before Richmond and
Petersburg, baked and thwarted in all hi:
plans, and for the first time confronted by
force equal to his own.
We have no doubt of the reelection Of
Lincoln, and believe such a result to the
contest would be best for US. Again firm
ly seated in.power, he would have no mo.
tive to pursue contest that has grown
| hopel ess, and at the same time luinous tc
his Government and people His iuteres
IS, and the Interests of his nation, will bC
in the path of peace, and a di Embarrassed
second sober thought will likely lead hin
to pause in his career of madness. HI
has already publicly intimated his willing
ness to make peace provided the peopl
will take the responsibility, and it is but
one step further to take the responsibility
himself. The election of Lincoln will a
last accomplish one valuable purpose will
US it will set to rest forever all issues bu
one--suhjugation or independence, There
will be no other alternative. On the 9th
er hand, with al. the noble spirits at hi
back, we confess We could never oontem-
pate the contingency Of McCle.lan5 sue
cess without an jnstnc.iyo shudder at the
possible consequences of such au event,