Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1865-02-10
The Peace Conference.

The air recently has been as thick with
peace rumors as it ever was with snow
flakes, every ONE expecting something
would turn up'' that would open the way
to peaceful solution OF our present diff
culties. But as the matter looks now with
no positive outgivings on either side a to
the precise status of the question at this
precise time, it may safely be assumed
that the President has returned from his
trip to Fortress Monroe without accom-
plishing any positive results; and that the
confederate commissioners have been es-
corted back through our lines into Rich
mond again, perhaps no wiser or better
men, than when they were Wshcrcd into
loyal territory by the huzzahs of thousands
of soldiers on both sides, some week ago.
However. for one we are glad that the
meeting has taken place, and that the
President has given the highest possible
proof to the world, to our own people, to
the misguided Southerners, that he is now,
and has always been anxious to secure
peace.
The Niagara correspondence left on the
minds of some, doubt as to the Presi-
dents real desire for termination of hos
tilities. Or it was made the occasion for
charging him with disposition to spit
upon all peace oyertures. Many faint
hearted Union men thought they saw in
the charges hurled against the President
during the heated political campaign of
last season. some show of reason in this
particular. Therefore we are glad that
Mr.. Lincoln has awaited himself of the
very first opportunity to show the world,
that his ear has always been turned close
to the ground, anXiously listening for the
first real and true intimations coming from
the South. desiring peace, on honorable
terms. All this effort, and all this sens-
tive care to learn the present state of Off
cial feeling i'll the confederaey. was due to
the country that has to raise the men and
money to sustain the war. And whether
this last conference III been successful
otherwise, it was well Tor Lincoln and the
Union cause.
If the hitherto incorrigible peace demo-
Gratis now see that nothing else will satisfy
Jeff Davis but for him .'to he let alone
to establish his eonfederacy right under the
dome of the National Capital, they will
cease their opposition TO the Union party,
and may in q short time, be found fighting
JEFF Davis mad schemes, as earnestly as
any Old Union man. Even Fernando
Wood, the ablest and most willy of all the
peace democrats, has introduced resolu-
ton into Congress demanding that Presi-
dent Lincoln shall not make peace with the
rebels on any terms which shall lessen the
boundaries of the National Union This
looks cheeky, to use an expressive term;
bat. nevertheless, it may be the sober Sec
ond thought Of Wool.
But the strongest reason that can be
urged in justification of the President, is
that something Of the kind was due to the
loyal men Of the country Who have just
new to furnish 100000 more men. The
States that have to respond to the last call,
will 60 to work in raising these men all the
more freely, ii they knew that terms of
peace have been offered the rebels, afresh,
on the basis of the integrity of the old
Union, and they have again refused. They
will now know that the contest must be
fought out on the old line. Mr.. Lincoln,
Mr.. Seward and Mr.. blair, must leave
peace making to General Grant, Sherman.
and Sheridan. These gallant ard allie
commanders are just now illustrating the
value Of the much talked of Anaconda
principle Of warfare in subduing the re-
belion. The fatal and all powerful folds
of the Union army, headed by these Off
GERS, are drawing closer and tighter round
the shrunken body of the Confederacy, land
soon Charleston and Richmond will be
ours. BY and by, the capital of rehellom
will he like moving caravan, and the
congressman who now have full license to
quarrel with one another in Richmond can
say with the poet, although in all entire
different sense,
"Nightly we pitch our movin. tents,
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