Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-02-03
PIE ACE NEGOTIATIONS.

The daily papers are filled with specula.
lions on the Blair mission to Richmond and
its results. IL is evident that nothing of any
moment was accomplished. AS near as we
can get at the truth. Davis was willing to &C.
capt peace with separation and on no other
terms, which was indeed very magnanimous
OF him. On the other hand Blair had moth.
ing to offer jeff. but such terms ns contained
in the Presidents ITO Whom it may Con.
Germ"
We IRE firmly Of the opinion That General
Butler told the truth in his Lowell speech
when he said that nothing would come Of
these peace negotiations. We believe fur.
ther that he was right when he said that
Lees army must first be whipped or csptur-
ed before peace could be secured.
We do not consider that the time will
ever come when peace can be negotiated
with jeff. Davis and the leaders of tho rebel
lion. We look for peace from different
source. When tho rebellion is subdued
then peace will come and not before, And
the rebellion is net going to sink away in
day. The authority Of the Government will
gradually be reinsta:ed over rebel States, as
such States are conquered by Union arms,
and desire bred in the hearts Of the people
to give over a hopeless war, and return to
their allegiance. Even as Missouri, Arkar.
sas, Tennessee, Maryland, and portions Of
other States have been won back, 80 will tho
whole be fully redeemed. Grant, Sh.r.
man, Sheridan, Fsrragut, Porter, and the
brave men Of the army and OF the navy are
the Only peace commissioners we have faith
in. After them Of course will come others.
but those others will have to do with III.
people, not with jeff Davis.
AS long as the leaders of the rebellion can
keep an army together they arc bound to
tight. We conceds them this. When they
cannot keep an army together, they mean to
escape to Mexico or elsewhere, with as much
Of the spoil Of war as possible, and joio
hands with some Macmillan or other.
Therefore eur mind is, that whatever
peace negotiations are instituted should be
conducted with the people, independent of
jeff Davis. We have nothing to hopo by
Offering terms to the Confederacy. We have
something to hope by offering terms to the
deluded people Of the SO called Confoderacy.
Man by man the people will desert JEFF.
DAVIS; State By State the Confederacy vii !
be dissolvsd-and SO the old Union will be !
restored. The rebellion may suddenly col
larsc, with great noise; but the collapse
viii come with the booming of cannon and
she shouts Of our victorious soldiary. Tho
Peace Democracy have not sufficiently won
nsto their faith for us now to believe that
10y the exercise Of "pc,ccsble means peace
may be restored. While wo are agreeable
to an honorable peace, come from what
source it may, We arc still in mind with
Miles ORcilly, that the proper way-yss,
the only way - is to light it out The
rsbe's fully understand our terms { Let
them accept the terms atsthcir leisure
While they arc precrastinatng the day
that will surely come, let US abate not oas
jot OF our earnest effort to defeat their arms.
Sand forward the men keep the armies full
and all will soon be we'll