New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-20
WAR AND PEACE.

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uteAnce and iteration of such calumnies the fol-
| loving:
he mutternr. q the storm which beroied the Rebellion
wer IN IHE TRIBUNE Judgment merely Chinese thunder.
TIE irng at Fort only gong beating. to be
aueed al as Of little Through all the early stages
.SSc aby Z eoprcEcad tokens Of danger or the
sam dishonest desire to bette them. For months assumed
70 uicrake the suppression Of the Rebellion by contract AT
eugt CONSCIOUSNESS q danger camel aud then where Nes
HFTEBrHi On il knees pleading Tor peace; down upon
us nsrr,,~ ayers OF Colorado Jewet tor
az - 10 hob mob with the rhompsons snd San
dess u the Rebellion and to patch up the terms OF in
elorpus surrender
The public cannot need to be told that our coun-
trygreat oyershadowing peril in 1861 was that sur
rener Of its government and policy to the Slave
Powr whereof the writer Of the above was a con-
spicous advocate. OF his Vaccinations to induce
the liter debauchery aud ruin Of the Republican party
by re adoption of the Crittendcn Compromise, THE
TRuUYE a conspicuous and successful opponent.
lie ill forgive for it, and we have no desire
tina he should
Tat the cause Of the Nation might and should, by
pDmpt, vigorous defensive policy, have been saved
iron such humiliations as the isolation of Washing.
ton the shameful surrender Of the Norfolk Navy.
Yah, and that utterly noxcusable rout at Bull Run
We id aRd do believe. That the management which
exposed Us TO these wanton disasters and huma-
tons very likely TO bring to absolute National
ruin, we did most painfully apprehend. That we
were ultimately rescued from such a fate, we rcver-
entity thank God alone.
Mt once only but continuously, The Times has
lent itself 10 a personal malignity which has accused
us ddiscus5ing terms Of Peace with Rebels or Cop.
perAeads yet the charge is utterly arociously false.
Wercver suggested TO- nor listened TO a suggestion
ofterns Of peace from, Vallandgham, nor Sanders,
nor aiy one else who was in any manner hostile TO
the National Administration. The overtures from
Niagara came TO US utterly unsolicited and uncx-
pectel. They were forwarded to President Lincoln,
as w@ requested; and to no one hut him did we
make any allusion TO them. insisted on
our going to Niagara, against our earnest
rem0istrance; aud all We did then ascertain
how hr the Rebel emssaries there ga Iered were
authorized and accredited to treat. We neither saw
themnor had any dealings with them on any point
but that, until Major Hay arrived and took the mat
ter into his own hands, when, at his persistent
quest we accompanied him on hasty visit to serve
on THIN Mr.. Lincoln's "To whom it may concern"
Thatwas his affair altogether, and in no degree ours
Whether the suggestion we made to President Lin.
coin Of an overture We judged he might wisely make
to the Rebels through the men at Niagara was judi
cous or otherwise, one but himself had the fanest
suspicion of its existence until he chose to make it
known. That he thought well Of it, is proved by his
sending us to Niagara to make it to the Rebels there
provided they should prove to be properly accredited
We.do not repeat these corrections with any hope
that The Times will mend its course. NOrdo we pro-
pose TO chase it from caumny to calumny, such
as the malignant passions of I" the Old Man" I'M
pei him to concoct and reiterate. Once in while,
we may brand them afresh in order that journals Of
equal venom but more self-respect may be deferred
from echoing them.
That we loathe the useless shedding of human
blood, and believe few lakes Of it might have been
saved by frmer, holder, prompter, stener dealing
with the Rebellion in its infancy, is most trae If
any capital is to be made out of this conviction,
The Times is welcome to it.