New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-24

sink or swim together The cause Of the country de-
manded and has received the services OF ali her citizens
and has taken She lives of very many. II has also
stripped the land Of ali ITS provisions. Now ict tho cot
ton and tobacco the gold and silver ard tie negroes
be devoted 10 tie success OF cause aid the spirit
that surrcndcrs not the things taken, VIII make our
cause successful.
= PEACE PROPOSITION.
A writer in Tie Pac!fcaiOr suggests the
formation of Peace Association Of The Catholics,
North and South, and Convention thereof with vieS
Of bringing the two Governments TO terms
rEAcE TALK.
From The Richmond Wig.
There is. after all, something very significant
in The repeated vista of Federal emissares 10 tic Con.
federate capital. We may DC sure that they do not
come here for nothing nor merely to crafty that
chronic curiosity which RACES in the Yankee bosom.
Neither do they come some confident but creduous
people might suppose to initiate those preliminary for
nalites which might lead first TO negotiation and hno
To peace An honest ard sincere effort in this direction
could not fail TO find response on al sides IN the Con-
fcieTaoy and would bo welcomed by none more warmly
than by those who more than ever
convinced that tie Washington Government means
to compass our suljugaion II possible, and
does not mean 10 recognize our Independence
II such a result can in any way be avoided
We think we do not exafserate when we say that nine
tenhs Of people OF this way of thinking and that
with the other tenth the vague hope that an honorable
peace is AT this mCmcn: practicable through the quasi
diplomatic e1pcdients Of the Lincoln government has
never vet risen TO the hight Of expectation, much less
the force Of conviction. Hence II is that the arrival
among US Of the Yankee emissarcs has little effect
On the public mind. Notwithstanding the natural ten
dency 20 SPECULATION as TO the motives which prompt
cd them to come here or their master 10 send them.
Nobody In the Confcderaoy. whose opinion is worth ask
ng supposes that their mission Involves anything more
than one Of those Ticks in which the history OF dip
omany il so very fertile and which are so peculiarly
consistent with the Yankee character. We have nj
ready stated our opinion this point and such ndica
tions as the Northern papers present have only con
hrmed our belief; and yet. We said in the begin
ming the frequent coming OF these ennis
ssries really has much Significance. II woud
ne absurd 20 SUPPOSE that Immediately alter
those successes which Yankeedom professors IL
eye are the GROWING victories OF the YEAR, and the
finishing stroke OF the Rebellion Lincoln would offer
or accept any other terms than such would involve
our unconditional return TO the Yankee Union. And
Is this would require negotiation but on the con
rary would be the utter abdicson on our part OF even
the RICH, 10 negotiate it is Just as absurd TO suppose
that no intends enter into any diplomatic discussions
with our Government. We venture 10 state. and
to place the statement on record as prediction.
on which we willing 10 hazard our sagacity that
Lincoln win never negotiate with the Government OF
the Confederate States til he il ready 10 acknowledge
their independence. Neither we attach much i'm
portance the reiterated expression Of on intense de-
sire on the part Of our Yankee brothers TO find out
49,, 49, lngR
send his enissares herei Simply because he knows
that IL the Confederacy hold out for another cam
noisn her triumph is assured and her Independence
won because no knows that bis available physical
re,ources are absolutely exhausted that neither the
choar enthusiasm OF the popuace over megnied yeto'
res and nor tho frantic ap
meals Of oil tho newspapers in the land tho subtle
Of Seward and tho other priests and proph'
cts Of Black Republication nor his ,uper.numer
Gus calls and procGmatons. aid him in anything in
getting together another army even half as great as
tha, which he launched upon the South in tho first days
Of May last. TTc must, therefore either induce the
Confederate Governments TO Surrender, or by
some means breat up the league Of these States or
BIZ proving 10 tho North The utter hopeessness OF re-
storing their sacramona Uuon except by lighting for
IL 80 resuscitato tho war spir. as TO enable him to
raise the 300O 600 men contemplated by his last call
WHAT YIRGIEIAss MAY EXPECT.
From Tho Examiner
II is the natural course Of things. ii Virginia
should ever unhapply fall under tho rule Of Yankees
then cast Your eye the whole S''to and look Tor
tho worst foulest moanest rufan in IT, You may not
find, perhaps in all Virginia. such superhuman
wretch as Brownlow; bu, still single out tho wors,
you can think of-one whom every honest man Avoids
like poison; let hin DO hardened grog-shop poll.
tioian--a coward at once and bully, and foamng
preacher. whose prayers % God are impiecations,
and who hates his nelghbor like tho devil. that
is tho who will be Governor OF this Commonwealth.
He Will be inauguarated in our old Capitol, hedged
around with Yankee bayonets. He will appoint oil
civil officers including judges and hangmen, for there
viii DO no Senate or House Of Delegates under that
regime; but tho flag Of tho State. with its sic spper
shall wave over den Of robbers and shambles where
drumhead Justice viii soak tho soil with tho blood OF
all good Virginians and give their possessions ia
their murderers. to have and to hold them
and their heirs, forever. Some, by abject
serYlity and oaths OF allegiance, taken amid tho
.necrs Of the bueooaed soIdery. may save their lives
perhaps but not their property; they must return into
the Union aked as Trey left their mothers womb. II
is bat faint picture Of tho future Of subjagatsd
Yirginian, which he who lives 10 viii often wish in
tho bitterness OF tbs soul that he and his had rather
pc fshed by tho crueest eItremtes Of war than been
preserved 20 endure such peace.
gUBJUGLTIoH AND RECONSTRUCTION
From The Sentinel.
| No wilder halucna,ion could tako possession
Of The human mind than belief tina. We could ever
again 1.-Two With the Yankees terms Of equality or
come under tie same Government with thom except as
CONQUERED people. Differences Of habit sentiment, and
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