New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-24
THE WAY TO PEACE.

Tie ~ y Times, with thepartial concurrence
Of The Heraid, opposes any further setting forth
by President Lincoln Of the conditions whcreon
pacifcation may be secured by those now in
the attitude of hostility TO the Union. Says
The Times;
THE President has .read, s,d all tina. he can say
and oil that is needed. The Southern people ~ body,
perfectly well understand. what he has declared from
the beginning that they can have peace by submitting
the Constitution and laws and no other condition
They also understand ha. far as be has any dscre
ton i'll the premises his policy is generous In none OF
the Southern cities that have recently come INTO our
posseSsiou-- Savannah, Charleston, Wllmington-has
there been necessity for any effort 20 dlspcl ms
apprchensions concerning the disposition OF the
Government The readiness 81 the people TO bcstow
their confidence proved that oil the lying Of the Rebel
press concerning intention OF President Lincoln 70
grind and ruin them had ceased 20 have the slightest
effect The thousands who have deserted from The
Rebel armies without single msgiving concerning
the treatment they TO receive witnesses of the
same fact. II abb urd 10 gauge Southern intelligence
upon this point by the mendacy Of the Rebel prints
The white man ~ not obtuse than the negro and
the latter we're not deceived BY oil the assertions that
the Yankees If they got hold Of them. would sell them
- Cuban masters. No conciliatory language that
President Lincoln could use would hasten the snbnis
sion Of the Southern people one single hour What 10
needed and all tha Is needed Is the dispersion OF the
Rebel armies and the breaking Of the civil orgsnza
ton Of tho Rebellion by the arrest Of its lenders and
Of tho bland tongue"
Let us consider and try TO understand:
"The Southern People" says The Times
"can have peace by submitting TO the Const-
tuition and laws. and on no other condition"
Treason against the United States" says
the Federal Constitution, "shall consist only
in levying war against them, or in adherng
to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort
Congress shall have power to de-
clare the punishment Of treason"
Congress has declared, accordingly, that
treason subjects those guilty Of il to the con-
tiscaton Of their property and the forfeiture Of
their liberty and lives.
Such are "the Constitution and laws"
which The Times says "the Southern People"
" can have peace by submitting to. and on no
other condition" VIGOROUSLY, that "pco-
pie" as body, stand to-day;exposcd to these
penalties. They hare "levied war against the
United States'-all Of them coustructively and
in the full contemplation OF law; most of them
actually. And now they can have peace, The
Times tells! them, by submitting" TO have
their necks stretched and their effects divided
among strangers. And this it considers all the
concession that is needed to secure sn early
peace.
No, The Times Idoes not 40 consider; yet
such Is the fair import Of its language. For it
proceeds directly to say that
IF THE TRIBUNE means that the military and civil
chiefs Of this Rebellion should DO asked to submit With
AN offer OF full amnesty and 1t 10 wide OF the
mark. Such sn offer would probably sHly b laughed