Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-02-08

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The Peace the North Proposes to Us.
The following resolution has been submit
ted in the Yankee Congress. How do the
reconstructionists like it:
Resolred by the Sanate aud House Of Rep-
rentatiues in Ctngrcss assembled, That no
negotiatio j, terms Of settlement, or comprom.
lise, be entered into, proposed, yielded or made
with the rebels, directly or indirectly, until
they have manifested their implicit and un-
conditional submission to the. authorities of
the Government; and further, that however
much peace may be desired, the present war
must be wsged with ali the resources and en-
ergy of the Cove eminent, until said submis
sion Shall be secured, and the supremacy Of
the Constitution and the laws established over
the entire territory Of the United States as
| heretofore claimed.
The New York Tribune, which is a,kind Of
ofic;alorgau Of the Administrator ct Wash
ington, has long and iahored, article or
peace" Some poi tions OF it are significant,
taken in competition with the departure Of tic
so.called "peace commissioner" for Wash
ingtcn. The Tribune says
I There are men who talk as if war were
normal condition, and who start al tie sug-
! gestieu ofpeaco as If some wrong were done
| the n:tiou. But ell wars must have an end,
even those carried on, as SO few ever have
been, for the highest good ofthepeople, though
all may not be attained which the victorious
party, at the outset promised itself. Ordina
rlly it sa struggle of endurance. 1t ism
question OF pluck and resources, as in all hu.
man affairs, are the ground work of courage,
Which can hold out the loDgesti Which can
hold ou; o longer? There come always u
time when the last is the vital question, and
when it comes, pence;is Inevitable. We may
not have reached that point, but the signs
are, at least, significant, and wise men Will
give them due consideration. Unwise, or al
least tEou.htlesS men, remember Only that
we have been al Var but four years, while
other nations have, with more or less pa
,leuce, endured lis calamities, ten, twenty,
thirty years, with far less 1T stake. They
do not remember that one year of modern
warfare, in Use exhaustion attending IT, In It's
enormous expenditure Of blood end treasure,
is eoual to FIVE years Of war century or halt
century ago. Tie dcsoiat:on that follow
ed the thirty years CT war in Germany was
not greater, probably not So great, as that
which, in tie last four years, has been vSi.
ted upon the reoeIiiCus States Of the SoutD.
Hall of Virginia IS : desert; Tennessee is e.
barren waste the young man Of The South
are in their graves; the old men are reduced
10 poverty; TIE industrial systeu # all the.
slave States is destroyed; from Mason and
DixomS line 10 tie Rio Grande, 6esolation
covers the land.
In the natural course OF things, then. peace
is imminent. Ii may be the im:nincnce, CT
weeks or Of months; certainly it cannot be de-
layed beyond tie duration OF one mere CAM
paizn. Che North wants peace, provided
the terms and conditions shall suit it. There
is nquestionably a party at the South that
demands it, caring little what the ;crnrs are;
ready to acecde to anything that we demand.
It is ready to grant cur utmost demand
| lay down its arms ard submit. Some facts
are known TO us which it is not safe now to
make public But they must be known ere
! long, and from that mon1ent our public af
fairs will s,sdmc rev: aspect.
MIR. Btsirs first to Richmond was neither
frutless nor useless, or itwould not have bsen
repeated. Without pretending to know any
thing of'its details, we in common with eve
rybody else, arrive at this conclusion. Not
less significant is the gradual but steady &c
clae in the price OF gold.
We are not more sanguine than Cur neigh
bors, ncr are we more hopeful Of or anxious
for pcact; neither do we pretend to more wis.
dom. But we hail. the flush of those bright
streaks of tic coming day, and do net choose
to shut our eyes to them because others, with
closed cye-fds, keep OFT the rght. We do
not prophesy immediate peace, because we
do not mean to, ,proplesyat all, but we believe
the utter exhaustion OF the rebels portends
the,result which exhaustion always bring to
all wars
GREAT FIRE In WAsHlNGroS-rH SMlrH.