Year: 1861

motives OF policy Congress was disin


elined TO engage in measures for th'


exchange of prisoners. and multitude


Of the American prisoners died miser
ably in British jails and prison-ships.-
The cost and calamities Of the war haC
far exceeded all the calculations Of tn,
patriotic men who had embarked in it.


Yet, at no time during the war. wer,
the people Of America more resolutelJ
determined upon the rejection Of AM
offered peace that did not recognize
their nationality. than they were in the
calamities which we have depicted as
belonging to 1878. The thraldom thai
they could not and would not endure
wss taxation without representation,
but after4Grsat Britain had ravaged
them with three years Of war, they re-
fused to accept the abandonment oi
that claim by Lord North as an induce
ment to peace. II the founders Of
American Independence could endure
not only the ealamities we have des-
cribed, but could determine to sccumu-
late them to any extent required rather
than abate an iota Of what was neces-
sary to found a United Empire, shall
we hesitate to suffer, or pause at sacri-
fee in carrying forward the determine
ton that not one star shall be stricken
from the galaxy Of the American
Union? The Southern insurgents, with
all the guarantees of the Constitution
that the whole people had enjoyed for
three quarters Of a century, who have
never been refused a single thing that
they asked for. without demanding any
new powers in the Constitution, or the
repeal of any law, rushed into this in
surrection, and within a few months,
they have inflicted more insults and
wrongs and outrages upon the United
States than all the rest of the world
have during the eigbty-6ve years OF
our national existence. They have
conquered nothing, nor are they likely
to conquer anything but themselves
Already dIssensions have sprung up
among them, and antagonizing parties
are arraying themselves on principles
that must be ruinous TO at least one OF
the parties, if not to both. Why then
this cry of peace among US while we
are facing the armed rebellion amidst
the scenes of the injuries and outrages
it has penetrated? Why should there
be an attempt to paralyze the arm Of the
Government, and to aid and encourage
the rebellion by a mischievous, ill-timed.
uncalled-for cry for peace? Nothing
but evil can come from this superlative
folly. The people Of the United States
intend to conquer a peace; they have
no thought of being conquered into
seeking Uu1, uiJiIUus stTihinS tI~ bio---
that has been insolently defed. The
machinators of this engine of mischief,
little plotting peace party. receive
their inspirations from Richmond, not
from the capital Of the United States.
They have no care for the peace or well
fare of anything but the Southern re-
bellion. Throughout the struggle for
0dllOudl cAlSlcuCCs "hilC tnC huilC VI
rebellion has been threatening the
vitals Of the nation, while wound after
wound has been remorselessly inflicted.
these harpers for peace have not felt
one emotion Of sorrow or sympathy for
the nation. They have piped when
Southern insurgents piped, they have
danced when Southern traitors danced,
and they yelled and made merry when
the soldiers Of the nation, the clam.
pions of freedom, fell upon the battle
field, true to an honored, a glorious
flag. These are the pet lambs Of peace
who are now bleating about our streets,
who are impudently asking Union men
to bleat with them. II there we're no
other reasons for prosecuting the war
against the insurrection than such as
are found in the men Of this peace par
ty, they would be sufficient to nerve the
arm of freemen. When these men cry
for peace it is a cry for quarter, a cry
that indicates unmistakably the despair
ing condition Of the insurrection. The
cry for peace is a cry to cover an in
evitable defeat.