The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-08

Let Ia Have q Truc Peace. -
The Washington Chronicle has, eve
s,uc. its blishment, been Thought to
reflect the tone ofssntiment in "Admin.
istration circlsS," sin Washington city
more nearly than any other newspaper
in the country. Published directly under
the eve of President LINCOLN and having
received many marks of bis favor, it has
9 been regarded as bis especial and
personal organ. 1t is therefore with Pc
,iiar pleasure. springingout of the hope
tlat the views expressed below may
s,eedily influence the conduct of the
Administration at Washington. that we
copy and commend the following edisori-
al article from the Chronicle of last Thurs
day. The policy advocated in this arti-
c'r has been urged by the Democratic
press since the commencement Of the
war now drawing to its close. The Chro'-
tcle says:
"Now the back and the head Of the re-
bellion have been broken, and that the
early termination of the war Is at hand,
1t behooves every patriot, every good
man, and every Christian, to begin in
earnest to consider the things which
make for peace. Whatever may have
b, en- mans original bias, his ineradi-
cable sympathies and feelingsduring the
progress of the contest, or his secret Or
open utterances in regard to the origin
and objects of the civil war, it is now bis
duty to lay aside passion, prejudice, and
the spirit Of revenge, and give his
whole heart and soul to the cause
of true peace and true Union First of all
if he has been Q radical loyahst, an abb
olitionist, an advocate of the most Wig
orous prosecution of the war, with little
regard to the fate of the rebels, and rebel
property, he should now reflect that be
must again become the fellow citizen of
the great body of those who have been
in rebellion; and of all, we may say, ex-
cept few scores of leaders, who will
make their escape into foreign countries,
die in last desperate struggle with the
forces of the Government. or be caught
and punished judicially. The idea of ex-
polling the rebellious population from
the country. and of dividing mp their
lands among the soldiers, white or black,
is a monstrous barbarism, the offspring of
cupidity, and has as little affinity with
patriotism as it has with the spirit of
Christian philanthropy. A wise and be-
nifcent government will not, and can
not afford to tolerate a spirit of pro-
scription which, while it may CRAFTY the
avarice of individuals, will nurse the
seeds of discomfort, and necessitate the
maintenance of a large standing army to
prevent future revolts. al history
abounds in examples full of warning on
this head; and of all nations the Ameri-
can Republic would be least excusable if
it should fail to profit by them. 1t was
the original sin of England, after her
conquest of Ireland under Henry H., to
adopt the policy of dividing the lands of
the vanquished among the victOrs, ''es-
tablishing them in all Offices oftrust and
authority" as Hume informs us; and the
consequence has been succession of re-
volts and state of chronic discomfort, du-
ting a period of seven hundred years.
In this connection Allison, the historian
says:
The first evil which has attached to
Ireland was the original and subsequent
contiscation of so large a portion of the
landed property, and its acquisition by
persons of different country, habits
and religion, from the great body of the
inhabitants In the greater part Of the
instructions which that country has
witnessed since the English standard first
approached its shores, nearly all its land
ed property has been confscated, and
lavished either on the English nobility,
or companies, or individuals Of English
extraction. Above eight millions of acres
we're bestowed away in this manner upon
the adventures and soldiers of fortune
who followed the standard of Cromwell.
IL is the great ertent Of this cruel and unjust
measure rhich has been the original cause of
the disasters Of ireland, BY no,t,ishing pro-
Jound feelings Of hatred m The descendants
of the MsposseSsed proprietoys, aud intro
ducing body of men into the country
necessarily dependent for their existence
upon the exclusion of the heirs of the
original owners from the inheritance of
their forefathers.
"The same author says, after giving
the history of the vendean revolt against
the revolutionary Convention in 1898.
and Of Its suppression. ..I .ElI- y9I1
The execution of these gallant chiefs
put an end to the first period Of tho Ven
dean war. 1t might hsn haze terminated,
had the Republicans made humane use of
their rictory, and skeathed the sgord of con-
quest after q had destroyed its enemies in the
Held. But the darkest period of the trag-
edy was approaching, aud in the rear Of
their armies came those fiends in human
form, who exceeded even the horrors of
Marat and RobespieTe, and have left a
darker stain on French history than the
tyranny Of Nero or the massacre of Bar
tholomew. Fheirstrocit took all hope
froun the yanuuished. and i'm desDair and