Year: 1864

or in any OF the democratic papers in the
countryi Do they not all breathe the
very reverse-the Union and the consti-
tuition must and shall be preserved, peace
ably if we can, forcibly if we must?


Your documents are false on the face
Of them, and yoa must kaoso them to be
lying, deceiving yarns! designed to cheat
and gull the people to perpetuato your
automaton leader and his shoddy retain
ers in power another four years, and may
be longer, If there shall be sufficient nuur-
ishment left that may be extorted by you.


You aver that "Peace, TO be enduring,
must be conquered" and you might as
well have added, "And the whites of the
South exterminated." What have two
and half millions Of brave soldiers done
in three years to conquer such a peaceG ?
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mary
land have been overrun, and kind Of
subjection maintained; and, in the other
ten States, you hold highways and cities
only, and you may take Richmond, Mo
bile and Atalanta, and take Lee, Hood
and their armies, still the men, women
and children will shoot and scold Yam
KEGS from behind bushes, and stumps,
and from their dwellings, no'O and for a
century TO come, at least.


Talk of conquering and holding 10 sub
lection eight millions Of hot-booded free
mon and ask them to yield upon such
conditions as you imposel You have
undorestimatod, and still misjudge, the in
domitable spirit and enduring perseve-
rance of these people. They will never
agree to or be at peace with their aboli-
tion masters only in their graves-they
who first began the raid and designedly
irritated them into unlawful rebellion.
Without any constitutional authority,
nothing but military, you seek to impose
a condition on them or no peace can they
have. ITO Whom it may Concern" is
the sine qua non, and don't your papers

and documents lie when they assert that
your terms of peace to them are uncoudi-
tionall l believe you can never make an
"enduring" peace with the people of the
South, and, Eence, l am for putting an
administration in power that will ap-
proach them with the sword still in one
hand, but with no other conditions than
such as the supreme law Of our govern.
ment authorizes, and without which nc
power can do any act Offer them liber.
ty, equality and fraternity, under the con-
stitution, in their own jurisdiction, and
they, the people, would gladly return un-
der the old stars and stripes again. They
would have confidence in such an admin
istration-the same that led this nation
TO the climax of power and prosperity up
to to the time that you, in fs6O, by a
sectional minority vote, attained power
And what is the event of your long labor.
ed abolition poicy' One to two mill
ions of negroes invited into starvation, and
are now fed from the public moneys; and
if you should succeed in extorting money
from your official slaves To flood tho land
with lying documents and evil spirits
and thereby carry out your ethiopian Wis
ions and free (as you callit, all the blacks
it will only result in putting Northern
masters over them TO whip them into ex
ertion enough to keep them from crime
and starvation.


There has been already treasure enough
spent to have bought every slave auc
transported them into some happier cline
at least TO them. You have brought thi,
ruin upon us by your fanatical agitation
of the negro question, till our once free
government is already under dictatorship
and that dictator by military assumption
assumes to punish for free speech, free
press, free person and free property,.while
more than one-half of the people Of these
i TTniiod Statoa (T trnst \ ara branded ne