Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-02-07
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some weeks manly through tue hsouNJ VI WV
elder Blair and The livery gentlemen VINO AEs
specu lating in gold aud stocks by styling II
negotiations andwe dom mean by using 50
respectable a term to have any Inference drawn
that we regard the proceedings az particulariy
praiseworthy or cre0itablc to the pluck or states
manship or consistency Of the administrator
The history Of these " negotiations ior the
past week, is briefly this. Ae1ander H.
stephens, called by the rebels Vice.presiden!
r. N. 7 Hunter, one Of to-. senator's from Nir-
gina who went with th2t state into rebellion,
and A. j. Campbell, 9, Alabama we beieye,
and ut one time a rebel assistant secretary Of
state, appeared one day last week under flag OF
truce, were conducted within Gen. Grants lines
and were met at Fortress Munroe, or City Point,
or somewhere else on the James river, by SEQ
rotary Seward, and afterwards by president Liz
coin, who went there for that purpose. Several
hours were spent in some kind Of conference,
and then the rebels returned to Richmond, and
the president and his party came back ~ Wash
irgoD, The rebel emissaries, as appears from
Richmond papers, bad no official character, but
were only in pursuit Of information, and We pre-
sumo tho president and secretary Seward were
also in pursuit OF knowledge. What lulorma
ton was obtained at this meeting by either par
ty has not yet transpired. and the public have
been obliged to trust to the VIGOROUSLY unrela-
bio guesse' Of Washington correspondents and
tho oracular editorials Of Washington papers
which are supposed to be official orgaus for any
explanation Of their proceedings and these
specuauons and ougivings have not had a tend
ency either tsispligbtsn or satisfy or please the
public.
Nothing has yet been disclosed Of the occasion
u result Of these missionary enterprises, to en-
courage the belle, that any good has been &C
com pshed, or could have reasonably besn an.
ticlpated through them and the way in which
they have been conducted on our side, has been,
and we think justly, severely criticised. The
/ people decided alter full and earnest discussion
Of the peace project, Of the Mcclellan and Chr
cago party, last fall that there was but ono
! peace which the nation could honorably OIL
would accept, and tina was the peace that should
! iolo~ the submission OF tie febsis The peace
that should DO run alter, or patched ny by any
compromsa whatever, was voted down by an
overwhelming majority. 1t isnot strange, then
that surprise and some modification should be
felt and expressed to learn, TINT, without con-
sultng the people without taking any ccunse
of congress, and, as far az il known, without
asking the opinion Of the cabinet, the president
has first sent o commission to Richmond, and
then gone himself as commissioner 10 james
riyer-and for what Not to recoivs the sub
mission Of the rebels-for be returned and they
have not submitted. What then? This is Just
the question that the people are everywhere
asking especially shat portion Of the people who
in voting for Dir. Lincoln Tor president, sup
posed they were declaring tor peace that Grant
and Sherman were lighting for, and not for a
peace tha, Seward, or b air, or anybody else
could patch up with Davis or hs messenqors.
There il another thing about this conference
with traitors that !, no. particularly rolished by
those who desire shat the rebellion may be
thoroughly crushed, and the chief criminals
, made to understand that treason is dangerous tC
those who have made this terrible WAY necessary
Stephens Hunter and Campbell are and have
been leading traitor. They have given rebel
! lion all the strength that their energy and tai
.ut. could contribute. Thry are p'incirals in
the great cime which hss thought MORNING
into almost every household, and mortgaged
| the industry OF the nation for hundred years
/ in the eifJr, 70 save the republic. Trey 7re the
co-worker. with the bArbarsns who have muI.
I dered union prisoners by thousands by ;,c slow
! and dsyish torture 81 cold and iaminr. lpre
nercils" than the tends Of the inquisitiou ''
malignant a. devils incarnate They represent
/ the most cruel and wicked and sbhorrpnt revolt
tuat ever assailsd any government. What
new virtue have they put on, that the president
should put aside official euquatte and dignity
and proprety, and hasten to wait upon thoil
pleasure, and 90 to them, instead of compelling
,hem, il they had any message, to come to him
The people, having fought tres'on Tor lourysars
do not look with complacency upon the ad
ministratiou that thus apparently torse.iul o
what it owes TO selirespect il not 10 duty, rushel
forth to meet the first messengers that have beer
persuaded to come through the rebel lines
They would have been much better Satisfied t,
have known that the president remained a
Washington, where rebels who we're resdy t,
submit to the old Tag could have easily found
him. II was lad enough to sind messengers tc
ueet snd salute rebel emissalits who gave nc
token Of sorrow or submission, without H.,
presidents going on that eTrand himself
II is time, also, the administration understood
tina, the people, who have at cons derable sacr
fee carried on the war, mean to have a voice il
determining the terms Of peace The presidOn
has said, and the people have said, that wher
the rebels lay down their arms and submit the,
can have peace Tho people mean to stand b,
that declaration and they look with the great
est distrust upon any talk Of peace that is no
preceded by the rebels dsbanding their armie'
3 and giving up their rebellion Aud the lee
$ secrecy, the fewer private conferences, aud th
, less mystery there is about these peace efforts
the better tho people will like them. There
nothing about them,i they are honest, that shout
not be made public, and if they are dishopes
{ she people ought to know il We are glad