Year: 1864




higher jealousy of the national authority


than he, or firmer determination to


maintain it. lie said, in his recent letter


to the Atlanta authorities. ITO stop this
war we must defeat the rebel armies that
are arrayed against the laws and Consti-


tuition, which all must respect and obey :"


1.-The United States does and must assert
its authority wherever il has power, If
it relaxes one bit to preserve it, it is
gone" ~ want peace, and believe it
can only be had through union and war. "
These are his sentiments; and his military
measures are all shaped accordingly.
But even if General Sherman had the in
clination to treat with these civilians, he


has not the power He knows his own
position well enough to meet such ap-
proaches on the instant with the one
word, that all such business must be
done, if done at all, with the authorities
in Washington. His business is not to
make peace, but to make war.


Were Governor Brown to make any
such application, through any of cur
generals, to the President, there can be
no doubt what sort of an answer would


be returned. He would be told that the


National Government is not at war with


Georgia, but with individual rebels in
Georgia, and that 50. long as there is any


armed rebellion within the State, there


can be no peace within the State Goyss
ernor Brown can pledge nothing for the


people Of Georgia, for no such power has


ever been deputed to him. But, even if


he could legitimately make that pledge,
it would not secure the State from expo
sure to the war. Supposing that he could


bind himself and every Georgian to be
loyal henceforth, still Georgia will be
seat Of war so long as there are armed
rebels within it from other States. The
war, in its active operations, knows no
State lines; nor does it spare any people
from contact with it simply because they
are loyal The people of Maryland and
Of Pennsylvania are, as body, loyal,
and yet each Of these States has been a
theatre OF the war again and again. GeOr
gia is to day exposed to precisely the
same liabilities as they-nO more, no less.
There will be war within her limits so
long as armed rebels are found there, and
not one minute longer. Governor Cur
tin OF Governor Bradford might as well
seek from the President an engagement
that there should be no more hostilitie
within the limits Of their States as Gov
ernor Brown seek the same thing in be
half Of his. We have not the slightest
idea that Governor Brown is such fool
as to make any such application. The
story is sheer invention.


The Copperheads, and rebel schemers


to help the Copperheads, may do their
utmost to throw upon the Administra
ton the guilt of the prolongation of the
war; it will all be in vain. The respon-
sibility rests only with those who persist
in rebellion The Government asks only
submission to constitutional obligations.
1t has no other conditions to impose. 1t
wants no vassal5, no payers OF tribute,
no dependents it wants simply law
abiding citizens. 1t means simply to re
cover the constitutional authority OF
which il was despoiled by an impioua
treason. Such is not only its right, but
it's vital necessity. To take mp with any
thing less would be suicide The loyal
people of the land understand this, and
will uphold their Government in fighting
ior it to any extremity. No issue can be
simpler or palmer. No sophistry or IA
blication CAN deceive the people in regard
to it, or divert them from pronouncing


upon it exclusively and emphatically in
November