The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-01-25

AHibhtu II. IL. IOANl En-
Rear Admiral.
To Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy.
Prospects of Peace-The Blair
hrIsS,sn-siEnS 81 Peace si the
SolEiis-EnEIasd and France
let Peace Come.
TIE BLAIR Mission. The telegraph in
! forms us that Mr.. Blair has returned to
Ricimogd. That is the most significant of
all the peace movements,
=, 1t shows rs we read it, that Mr.. Blair,
while at Richmond, laSt week, opened ir-
| regular negotiations with Davis < CO.; that
on lis return to Washington he communi-
Gated the result OF his conferences to Mr..
Lincoln; that such report showed that peace
was attainahle by negotiation; and that an
! other Informal conference might produce
peace honorable and satisfactory to both
parties
II very seldom happens that when oppo-
site parties get to negotiating about their
differences, they do not, sooner or later, ef-
feet settlement. We think that will now
be the case between the North and the
South. The signs North and South Ger
tainiy nortcnd an early settlement, by nego-
tiation Of the war.
The only obstacles in the way of 8 peace
full sttlement at the North, will be interpos-
ed 10y the Radical Abolitionists and the
preachers Of the gospel Of the Prince of
fcaee and at the South by the non-slave-
holders.
1t is a sigular fact, that the parties at the
South most unwilling to make sacrifices for
independence, are those who were the most
clamorous and persistent for separation, viz;
those whom We used to term yJfrc-entsrs; and
those now most determined and earnest
for independence, are the Conservatives,
who counselcd against secession and re-
sisted it, until further opposition va.
useless.
But when the peace sentiment takes hold
OF the popular mind, as it is now doing,
the Radicals and preachers at the North,
and the last dollar and The last man par
ties at the South, will be unable to arrest
the current that will sweep the wer into the
gulf Of oblivion.
SIGNS on PEACE AT THE SoUTH The
telegraph dispatches gave us the remarks Of
Mr. Orr, OF s. c., in the Confederate Con-
gress, which are the most pleasant sounds
we have heard from the South since the
war began.
In answer to the objections to sending
commissioners to Washington to epeu irreg-
| l4lar negotiations for peace, he is reported
as saying: such negotiations weNI3 be ir-
regular, and they might, if ratified by the
| treaty-making power, sec'tTe honorable and
satisfactory peace. Who but nialinen wo d
denouncc these means and this result as
| trcacheyy2" And he adds, in speaking Of
the men, who are advocating eiFor4 to pro
| duce peace by negotiations:
This movement is not in the hands of
time-serving men, Sustained as they are
by a volume Of sentiment in the country
and army, and BY their own sense Of duty,
they are determined, in some form, tie
craftsmanship Of tie coasatry shaH be 5nroked
in an honest effort to end this carnival Of
death by negotiations;
"Hc referred to the SentincTs proposition
to invoke foreign intervention, and thought
better terms could be obtained from the
United States. He insisted that it was
neither foolish nor reasonable to resort to
every proper effort 10 secure peace by ncyo-
tlatioa
The stotesmanshp Of the south is to be
involved in an honest effort, to end this car
carnival Of death bgac10tidt'on, and it is no
longer to be considered either foolish or
reasonable to resort to every proper effort
to secure peace by negotiatiou!
| Glorious words, and nobly uttered There
can be no dishohorable peace among breth-
ren--no dishonor to treat with rebel broth
rem in nrrng--no diShonor in men who have
| fought with the Valor and heroism of the
Northern and Southern troops rushing into
each Others arms, and embracing as broth
ors. 1t would be spectacle for the pleas
ant contemplation Of angels and men
1t is understood that, if these negotiations
for peace are successful, the Southern States
will return with their slayrs-that they
come back to the old Uninn rs it was. That
rasy not be agreeable 10 the Radicals, and to
that class wGo profess to be the interpreters
of Gods viii to man, and who are the most
anxious for the carnival of death to 60 ON;
hut every body must be more or less d4ap-
pointed in the details of the settlement that
closes such a war Every one can not have
hisway. There must be yielding all round.
Let the negotiations proceed! Let peace
come Lot brotherhood be restored! Let
hall and the fends be disappointed
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.-Shond peace
| be made between the North AMI South on
the basis Of the Union, the most di&sppoin-
ted parties would be England and France -
They have inter, SIS on this continent, that
may be very materially elected BY a peace
~esulting in Union The North owes them
M . nod will, nor the South either.
fnt ,'s have pcac3 by conciliItion and
Union. we can defy the world in arms
lin Enc ,jn : ~.