Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-10-09

under a deep sense Ofshame OCCASION
ed 10y the knowledge that we had sub
mitted to a peace which subjected us
to the scOrn and jeeIs of the world.
Nor even this the full measure of
the dishOnor and abasement contem-
plated by Mr.. Greeley. a g~rovelIing
peace was to have been purchased !
Yes, after three years OF sanguinary
war, during which, under the spirit
| stirring appeals" of the Tribune, hall
a million of our sons sleep i'm their
CORY beds" Mr.. Greeley calls upon
''our bleeding, bankrupt, dying
country to pay flour hundred mil
lions OF dollars to slavery for peace J
This wanton, Internal and terrible
war was deliberately cOntrived by
and for slavery. For this great crime
there is no adequate punishment but
in the crushing out" of the evil
that produced it. The destruction of
slavery is the penalty for slave rebel
lion. Why, then, after slavery has
cost Us tour thousand millions, should
we offer to pay flour hundred mil
lions" more for slavery, in the teeth
of that Proclamation which Mr..
Greeley hailed as the instrument
which gave freedom to the slaves ?
Or why, if as we will all agree we can
have no peace without Union, should
the lOudest advocates for wal become
the most abject supDlicants for peace?
Why, if the ''best attainabie PEACE"
should be accepted, and we were
ready TO p0y four hundred million
dollars for slavery. did we oppose the
Peace Party ?" No COpperhead has
dared openly to propose a peace as
hiSgraceful as that demanded by Mr..
Greeley. Indeed, these irresistible,
Peace afinities brought Horace Cree
ley and Fernando Wood into mutual
admiration conjunction, at a recent
dinner ovation in honor of the latter,
who is about to leave the country
for mis- country's gOOd."
Ii is much to be regretted that
Messrs. Greeley and Blair, who have
by their restless and Officious, but
dbOrtive peace schemes, complicated
and procraStinated the war, has not
left The whole question until the gov
eminent saw fit to move, with these
very able negOtiatOrs, Grant, Sher-
man, Thomas, Terry Sheridan, Han
cock, Warren, Devon, Farragut and
Porter. The junior Blair, by the
way, commands a division under
Sherman, has sho N great wisdom
and gallantry, as a peacemaker, thus
atoning for the fussy intermeddling
of the senior. But above all, let us
not, after slavery has cost us rivers of
blood and thousands of millions of
treasure, piercing all hearts and dra-
ping every household, listen to the
INDUSTRIOUS demand of Mr.. Greeley to
pay four hundred millions to propi
tate slavery and pur. chase peace.
Our pathway to peace leads through
and over the Confederate govern
ment. We want no negotiations
with Jefferson Davis. Peace will
come naturally, simply and easily,
upon the collapse o the rebel govern
.ent, of which no vestige should be
left. Nor of this is there any posi-
bic danger, for the day and hour
when a ruined and desperate people
will turn upon and rend their leaders,
IS at hand! Well for two ofthe arch
Slidell and Mason, that the
Atlantic rolls between them and an
enraged and starving constituency.
for Jefferson Davis, Secre-
Benjamin, aud other traitors, If
hey become prisoners. instead of
into the hands of those who
drawn into acauesless and wick
ID rebellion against 4 government
whose broad shield and protecting
lag furnished ample security for the
welfare and the nations hon
r. THURLOw WEED.
ASLOT House, April g.