New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-29
PEACE!

The surrender 10y their chief Of all the Rebel
mated on Friday last at NewOrlcanS, received
| by telegraph next day at Washington, and ap-
proprately recognized by the President in an
order through the War Department that all
persons confined under sentences by Military
tribunals of imprisonment during the War be at
once discharged from custody. This Is an
official notification that the War ia closed, that
the authority Of the Union is fully reestablished
and respected from the 81. John to the Rio
Grande, and that the Great Rebellion liz no
more Gen. Sheridsn's Texas campaign is
ended before il was fairly begun, and our armies
can be reduced, 30 fast as the soldiers can
be paid of, to a very moderate Peace estab-
lshment. So the day OF National mourn
ing for our lslnentcd President Lincoln (Thurs-
dav, June u will be observed throughout
nearly the whole extent of cur vast country
in Little Rock and Montgomery. in Tallahassee
and Galveston, 10 openly, as earnestly as in
Boston and Chicago.
So ends the mightic,t, grandeot, bloodiest,
most destructive, most mOmentOus struggle IN
modern history, with The slave-pens of Rich
mond and Charleston, the gin-hOusos of Ala
bama, the canc.mills OF Louisiana and Texas,
glowing in the light of the newly risen sun Of
Universal Freedom. Ours has been by far the
most desolating struggle since the fall of Napo-
leon, but the results are nobly worth their cost.
Our country is again at peace-wc trust for
century. We shall begin at once to repair and
reconstruct, to reopen dsmantled railroads, to
rebuild burned cities, and to replace the fences
which have been swept from many thousands Of
square miles by the passage of contending armies.
From this hour forth, each day will witness an
increase Of our National wealth, and the census
of 1870 will show a decided GAIN both in
Population and Property, over that OF 1860,
though Halfa Million lives and -Four Thousand
Millions worth of property have been deyoured
by our Civil War.
But to this end it is essential that there be no
looking backward-no nursing of feuds-nO
cherishng of hatreds born of our great con-
test. Let the law and its ministers do their
scribed stigmatized OF ostracised, in any section
for the part he has borne in our bygone struggle.
If Unionists are to be mObbed or otherwise hunt
ed ont in strongholds of Rebel feeling, or
if those who have been Rebels arc to be thus
bufieted by Union neighborhoods, We shall
have no true Peace. no revival of prosperity.
but general bitterness and social anarchy. All
good men must unite in frowning down every
attempt to perpetuate in peace the antipathies
inseparable from war.
At best, we shall have a season Of EN-.
barassment. Many, in defiance of all warnings,
have contracted debts under an inflated cur.
rency which the great reduction of nominal
values renders them unable to pay. so their
property must be sold and they left bankrupt for
life. Many who would gladly labor and produce
find themselves destitute Of Seed of animals, Of
the means of paying for labor, and SO unable to
make a crop this year, or do moro in any way
than just keep soul and body together Our
public burdens are large, and must in such times
press heavily on the sources of production. Our
people, while penniless, are ragged also, and in
want of nearly every comfort; hence, goods sell
faster than they can be paid for, and importa-
tons are excessive, draining us Of coin at
the rate Of millions per week, when we
ought not TO spare dollar. Labor has