Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-01
Frou, Richmond.
Ds.p.ra,s effort to fire The Southern Asart-
rs. RsbsI Vtrsiors of the BEair Ai''iO".
a.. p,.b-,ond Enopirer, Jan. %.

From the Richmond Enquirer, jan 20
Tba second mission of the Hon. F. P.
Rlair to Richmond is ended, by the return
of that gentleman to Washington yesterday |
That nothing has been accom-
nIished towards an immediate peace we feel |
justified in assuring our readers. 1He enc
nv are vilZing to permit Us to dictate our o'7n
terms. provided only We will not dissolve
the Union. Auy guarantees for slavery any
provision for Its protection
and extension, full compensation IN green
backs for all the negroes that nave oeen
carried of during the war, anything, every
thing that We can ask or think Will De
freely granted, if only We will consent to
Feunite with them. These may not nave
been exactly Mr.. BlaiE's terms, but they
embrace the substance of his mission, and
do not in the least e1aggerste the extreml-
ty to which the enemy are willing to con-
cede us if We will only return to the Union.
Bnttbess terms cannot purchase our liberty.
We are not fighting for slavery, neither its
protection nor extension. We are willing
to give up slavery for our liberty. We in
tend to be Independent and free, or to be
exterminated. The enemy will understand
tho earnsstuess of our people in due time.
As vet they do not fully know us; but
they are learning fast. We are seeking
place among the nations Of earth, believing
it to be q right secured to us by our fore
fathers. Slavery has nothing whatever to
do with this war. We will sweep the in-
situation from before US the moment it
stands in the way of the accomplishment
of our liberty. The enemy might as we'll
abandon the effort to bride us with pro.
lection for slavery out of our liberty. We
admit that there are Afew recreant wretches
in these States who would sell their liberty
for their negroes but our word for it, they
are few and utterly contemplate.
Resolutions may be introduced into the
Virginia Legislature looking to reconstruc-
ton, but they will be rejected with unan-
unity which will forever damn the wretched
traitor that has thus sought to bring shame
and disgrace upon the fair name of the
State. When they make their appearance
it will be time enough to speak oftheir au-
thors and abettors in their reasonable work.
They will be found to be meR of no earthly
influence; men who have maintained their
places in the Legislature because the army
had taken into its ranks all the men fit for
such place. Those who would now en-
terrain propositions of reconstruction and
remain with murderers of our sons and
brothers, the Violators of our women, the
wretches who have burned our houses and
desolated our fields, are either already
purchased up or have fixed their own
price upon their treason, and are satisfied
they will obtain it. 1t would be most
notifying to see any such resolutions
introduced, and we do earnestly hope that
good sense may prevent their being offered.
This second mission of Mr.. Blair is the
best evidence that we can desire th at our
people have only to be true to themselves
aud they will eventually secure their free
dom. When Mr.. Lincoln is willing to give
up his love. for freeing negroes, when he
and his people are willing to give oonsti.
tutionsl guarantee for the protection of
slavery, and even to repeal all laws pro-
hibiting its introduction into the free
States, to pay for all stolen negroes, there
can be no better evidence that the enemy
are beginning to understand that the Job
10 TOO big; Stand Ss iEHo aSS We hS
only to be as faithful to our cause as we're
the sons and brothers we now mourn, and
We shall soon rejoice in the enjoyment Of
our liberty and independence.
There is a compromise that yet may
open the way to peace. 1t has been sug-
edge our independence provided 9 treaty
of commerce and league offensive and
defensive for the application of the Monroe
doctrine to all the States of North Amer
lea eau be agreed upon. When that prop
osltion Is made it will be time enough to
discuss it. In the meantime our readers
may as we'll revolve the subject in their
minds, for is not improbable that it may
become q living, tangible proposition be-
fore many months.
Nh pLArp uAvru IoyvIrn Dna-o,,.o..
From tho Richmond Sentinel, Jan. %.
Mr.. Blair left Richmond yesterday morn
ing upon the steamer Allison with Conn
missioner Ould for the truce boat at Boul.
wares landing. It is Understood that Mr..
Blslr's mission to Richmond was emphat.
ically one of peace. After laying before
our authoEitiss, Informally of course, the
wishes of the federal government. the in.
depreciation OF which Is peace on a subiu.
CATION basis, and finding that these modest
desires were notlikely to be complied with,
he came down pointedly to q proposition
OF reunion upon any terms, and desired to
know upon what terms the South would
agree to return to the sheltering E1is of
the old flag. he suggested the Union as
it was, the niger as he is, and the SonTb
as it used to be. He suggested also
that the North would foot the hill
and taxes for all the negroes stolen
and property destroyed by the armies
and emissaries of federal usurpation. or
course he made all Of these suggestions on
his own responsibility; but whether deem
60 authoritative or not, he, received not
the slightest encouragement to hope for
reunion, and wsd made to understand that
the South was fighting for independence,
and Independence only. He then inquired
whether, i'll the independence of the south
were recognised by the federal govern.
ment, the South would make common
cause With the North and drive the French
from Mexico. The response understood to
have been given to this diplomatic feeler
was:-"Aake the proposition formally and
officially, and you will get reply.n
This is the substance of Mr.. Blsir's po-
htical conversations with persons in and
ont of authority while in Richmond, so far
as We have been able to learn. There
may be something yet sub rosa, but we
doubt it, though, probably, there may have
been some allusiOn to driving the EueIisb
out of Canada, in connection With ma last