The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-02-11
The Peace Conference.

The Peace Conference.
The Peace conference, which attracted so
much attention last week, came to an inglo
rious and sudden termination, as we, in COM
mon with every one who believes in the
doomed, blind madness of the leaders of
the greatest crime in history, believed it
would. There is nothing left, as those who
place the proper estimate upon the Rebels,
have believed and predicted, and as the
most dull intellect, mole-eycd Peace man
must now be satisfied, but to utterly subdue
and annihilate the Rebel leaders and their
armies, and thus set free the white as well as
the colored people of the Southern States.
The n. y. Tribune, whose editor has been
one of the leading spirits in the recent Peace
movements, and who constantly predicted
great results thcrcfrom, says:
The one sole, sufficient obstacle which the Presi
dent encountered and could not overcome was this :
Ihc Rebels required of him an immediate, UNI
qualified cessation of hoses leaving in allowance
all questions concerning the integrity of the Union
and the righful authority Of its Government the
cortconsly, promptly. hut decidedly. appraised them
that he was neither authorized nor disposed to con-
cede. And thus the conference ternlinatcd.s
The Philadelphia Press, Forney's paper,
and which is one of the leading Administa.
ton organs of the country. and whose edi.
tor was down on his marrow bones, with his
mouth in the very dust, the day the Presi-
dent met the Rebel Peace Commissioners,
ready to give up almost everything but the
maintenance of the Union, now holds the
following language:
The conference at Hampton Roads is hut another
though it may he hidden but little way in the dark
ness OF the future If peace were not an impossible
he could do for 1t he did. And we believe the rebel
leaders with whom he conferred were sincere in their
desire that peace should he the immediate result of
peace he mad in the face of Fate itself, five could
undo the work OF the past legislation for the present
would he easy. But the South is what slavery has
made IT, and the education of war is lincompeted
task When the Government of the United States
declares To the rebellion submit for it is certain
that you will be compelled to in the end" it has for
answer the sullcn increduty of men who have al
ready riSkcd so much that they are willing to dare
everything. Yet the conference was not useless
While il proves the necessity of the war, il shows
that the stage is reached at which hot, sides are anx
ions to end 1t. To the United States it is encourage
n"nt to persevere energeti"aly in which has
already forced our enemies TO consider the terms Of
reunion.
The war has received now impulse. Negotiation
=" T 10 ,d ih shall mhe refusal N Of the r give.
is Who'll" strength into the war. 1t has nothing else
they succeed or fail together. GNU viz '''
S. s. Cox. of Ohio. and Fernando Wood
If New York the sb;,;,, 1;obts IF ,ho Ma,
Clellap peacc Democracy have nronourced
against their stiff. uecked Pharaoh friends
and now their voice is for war IN sotrr'
day, Mr.. Wood. the very head and FRONT of
the Peace marty. said in the House ,ftor
hearing that the Rebels had insisted on rc.
cognition as a preliminare to n close of the
war;
Rumor said the negotiation has failed. It WAS to
m If n he R ' m Of the
IAN, and duly on the s,s of the common Con-
-cnted the peace sentiment, that he would not sns-
war because he was opposed to diss"a,i"n 1U
ro oe' t" "hs s {" ms r"n's against the Admins
vented propositions of peace by denying the admit
"nt But if the door had now BEEN tbrawn 'r nnan
by the prGsent, and If the answer to that was that
nothing else then he desired to say with his humble
country to obtain by force what @ armies nn, 81 ms
obtain by peace
The curse. of the Almighty is upon the
leaders of the rebellion, as it was upon Pha.
roah. Though locusts, frogs, or any of the
insect nInpues eycpnt lice hoe pot hoop