Year: 1864




With these opinions often avoWed and
continually persisted in, we fnd him
coming out as the open advocate of
peace. Ofpeace we infer, without emanci-
patton. For to deny to q people the right
to determine aud regulate their social in-
stitutions whilst he maintains their right
to self government, would be the grossest
inconsistency. Besides be looks for peace
at an early day, and if emancipation be a
sine qua non, he would 6nd it quite as diff.
cult to get the North to consent to peace as
to get the South to agree to it. While the
war lasts the North takes away our ne
gross to weaken our means of defence
The war over, and she will be anxious 70
restore them, as well to keep them out of
her own territory, where they are found to
be an intoIerable pest, as 70 put them to
work at the South, in order that tbs pro-
ducts of their labor may again enrich the
merchants, ship. owners, manufacturers
and mechanics of the North, who will, in
modified way, resume their accustomed
trade with US.


We are sure that Mr.. Greeley desires
peace, and is actually endeavoring to bring
it about, not alone from his intermediation
to bring about q meeting between Messrs.
Holcombe, Clay and Thompson and Mr..
Lincoln, but because of the following Ian
guage, which he has since employed when
writing about the contemplated meeting.
He says: "More than this he does not feel
at liberty to state, though he soon may be;
and all that he can now add is his general
inference that the pacifcation of our couu-
try is neither so difficult nor SO distant as
seem to be generally supposed"


THE DESIRE FOR PEACE HYPocRIFICAL.


From the Richmond Examiner.


AS Lincoln wants a peace on his own
terms, SO we also want peace on ours,
and the terms mutually exclude and de-
stroy each other. 1t is not, therefore, the
same peace We desire; and the word itself,
banded about in this way, loses all mean
ing, and signifies literally nothing at all.
1t has become hateful word, and should
be left exclusively to the use of buffalo
orators in neighboring State, if any of
that sort still drivel aud snivel. Let US
get rid of the whole vile cant, and say at
once we are for war, and nothing but war,
until, as Davis is said to have said, 1.-THE
last of this generation falls in his tracks,"
and then that we mean to pass it to the
next as an inheritance. Itis for those who
have unjustly and wautonly invaded our
country to offer US peace; and when they
do, they will still offer it in vain until
their armed men are withdrawn from the
sod of these Confederate States, and the
felon flag of stripes is hauled down from
every fort within our borders. After that,
it will be time enough to pirate hbout peace,
Now the very word is nonsense.


TIE WAR DRAWING TO AcLosE.


Prom the Richmond lsentinel, Aug.s.


There are many unmistakable signs
and evidences that the war is fast draw
to a close. Not, however, that formal
peace is at hand. The North may cease
to carry on active hostilities long before
it will consent to recognize our independ-
ence, and enter into fomal terms of peace
with us. Among the signs of the times
none is more encouraging than the alter
ed and subdued tone of the Northern
press and Northern politicians. We
hear not word now of crushing the re-
bellion in sixty or ninety days, or even
within the present year Few, very few,
politicians or editors are so impudent as
to hold out hopes of crushing it out at all
They are in terrible dread Of an invasion
by us of the North, and more busy in
irving to devise ways, and means to repel
such apprehended invasion than in re-
newed attempts to subdue the South.
They have lost all hope that Grant will
us
that Early will capture Washington.
They keep Grants army, at this sIckly
season, in the most sickly hole in the
South, merely to prevent the junction Of
Lees and Early's forces, and the proba-
BILE capture of Philadelphia that would
follow such junction. In like manner
they keep Sherman in Georgia to keep
Hood out of Tennessee aud Kentucky.
They are family hammering away at Pc
tersburgh and Atlanta to save Cincinnati
and Philadelphia. They have been
for some time busy Withdrawing their
troops from the Mississippi, and
all along either shore of the river, also
from many points on the Atlantic coast,
and concentrating them,at positions near
er to Washington. They are obviously
preparing to defend the North from ap~
pretended invasion.


Well may they apprehend it and trem-
BILE at its probable consequences. After
the middle of September what forces will
they have with which to repel invasiOnl
Their veterans term of service will have
expired, and they will have returned
home. The hundred days men will have
returned home. A body, composed al
most entirely of raw recruits, deficient in
numbers as well as discipline, will be all
the army they will have with which to re-
pel invasion. Men will not rush to arms
to defend their homes as they do in the
South for Northern soldiers are common
laborers, without houses or homes, and
who live and support their families from
their daily wages. A war of invasion of
the North will suspend their wages; their
daily pay as soldiers, in greenbacks, will
amount to nothing. No bonus is offered
to them for enlistment; no hopes of
Southern plunder will any longer be held
out, will any longer delude and deceive
them; the expense of living will have
ouadrupled. and to enlist as soldiers will
be to starYe theft families. The North will