New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-27
PEACE OVEnTUREs.

PEACE OvEHGUkFS.
Tie Hcyaid, crliciSing our recent articles
fayoring Presidential Proclamation in the IN
,ercst OF Peace, says:
"A,weuuderstand TIFF TRIBUNE il wants procla
nation ia behalf OF these leaders oi tho Io"lhOh
giyng them greater Inducements Tor suomissoi'
The HeraH will please understand us better.
We have not suggested any specific proposition
to he made TO Rebels of any grade or position.
II we had any such suggestion to make, we
should, for Obvious reasons, address il privately
to the President. But. while we would nave
specific overtures made from the highest quar-
fer our concern is more with their spirit taan
with their letter We greatly desire that
the Southern people should realize that
the LOYAL Millions do not hate them.
do not seek their determination. but are most
anxious that they should turn from Their er1ng
WAYS and live. Such we know to be the icei'
ing Of the great body Of our friends ana heiSH'
bors: such, we are confident, are the feelings
of a large majority of the people OF TIE loyai
States. We do not believe that the torture
unto death by exposure to inciemency ana
starvation of 50 many thousands Of our captured
brethren was authorized or desired by the great
body of the Southern Whites. We do not
believe that a majority of those Whites
ever gave an unconstrained assent u
the mad scheme Of D.sunon. We. do
not believe they have ever preferred to DC
vassals and feudatories OF some European
monarchy rather than the citizens OF this free
republic. yet we are well assured that their
chiefs have attempted 10 bargain them away TO
whomsoever would aid in communicating Dis
union. We have ever regarded with good will.
/ but without sanguine faith, the various efforts
to open negotiations with those chiefs; for We
could not but feel that they must necessarily be
the very last men in The Confcderacy TO consent
TO restoration of the Union; but that great
and steadily increasing majority OF the South
ern People would gladly accept such pacifcG-
lion as our Government could hOlOubly &C.
cord, We lave long aud unwaveringly trusted.
Now, then, we ardenily desire that the Presi
dent should make direct, specific appeal and
overture TO the Southern People, urging them 70
return to loyalty and peace, and giving them
substantial reasons for so doing. Those people
are now kept in the tolls of treason mainly by
positive and constantly reiterated assertions
that they have nothing TO gain by submission,
nothing to lose by persistence in rebellion and
may as well fight 10 the last as give up and be
exterminated as well as stripped naked after
their surrender. (See JET. Dayiss late mani
fcso, the address Of the Rebel Congress,
Howell CoLb's speech, &C.. &c.) Now let the
President oounteract these damaging misrepre.
sensations by simple, clear, straight
forward overture, setting forth precisely who
are to gain and what is to be gained or saved by
pacifeation, aud We are confident that large
portion of those who have Hitherto aided or
seemed 10 cOuntenance, the Rebellion. viii II.
sist that this overture he accepted aud the tide
Of wholesale carnage and devastation DC thus
arrested. And when those who thus feel and
act shall have declared for peace, there will not
be enough left in rebellion TO keep each other in
cOuntenance. II even one-eighth of the insur-
gents were now to throw down their weapons,
the Rebellion must collapse forthwith.
The issue Of the contest "a no longer doubtful.
We must have this day at least $50, 600 COM
bstants between the Snsquehanna and the Pc.
dee, while all the Rebel forces within those
limits cannot number 10000. Our men are
well fed, well provided and splendidy armed;
the Rebels are in want Of everything, hope in
Guided 70 fight longer is to sqnander blood
and treasure: there should be speedy peace,
and our Government should Enthusiastically eyincc
the anxiety it feels for an early and final pacih.
cation. The discounted Rebel leaders may
hold their lives very cheap, but we, who are
the victors, should realize that all the lives and
property sacrificed hereafter are just 20 much
loss to our country. We have saved tho Re.
public now let us try to save Gs many Of It's
people, as much of its property, as VIC possibly
can.