Year: 1862

" We can propose no terms, but we must /,
demand them" and then he proceeds to
state few of them. We copy the fol-
lowing: rl e,.f,ssr 49,


"Much valuable property of our citi-
zens has been destroyed or stolen and
carried off by the invaders; this should
be accounted for, and paid. The Yam
KEGS were shrewd enough to cheat us ont
of the navy, but we must have half of the
war vessels and naval armament in pos
session of the North at the commence
ment of this war We shonld enter into
no commercial alliances or complications
with them, to be modified at our own dis
cretion and pleasure. They have closed
against us all navigation and trade on
the Mississippi, Missouri and other riy-
ers; it is our right and duty hereafter SO
| to regulate the navigation on these
streams as may best conform to our own
interests 1t cannot be expected that
we should permit the free navigation of
the Lower Mississippi to the west after
they have closed It to us above, without
the most stringent regulations. There
is no palliation in the pretense that the
blockade above was war measure; they
cannot so claim it unless we had been
acknowledged as belligerents, hence
then have forfeited all right to free nav
| igation as a peace measuee. If then,
permission be given to the free States of
the West to navigatei the lower Missis-
sippi, it should be under such restrie-
tions as to afford commensurate reve-
nue. to the Confederacy, and the strickest
rules regulating the ingress and egress
of passengers officers and hands. The
West is learning US how to do without
her, and we thank her for it; we shall
have but little need of her produce, as we
shall soon have plentiful supply among
our own people. Anabsolute separation
from all the North, with the sole and in
dependent control of all regulations
with its people, are our best and safest
terms of peace. +,r


These are certainly explicit 1t will
be seen that they amount to separation,
with the consent on our part that the
Confederates shall do what they please
with us afterward. They do not pro-
fessedly desire our subjugation-but they
simply calculate upon kicking us out of
their domains, and then kicking us about
ever after. Pleasant prospect AS to
the territorial extent of the Confederacy,
the writer says that an outlet to the Pa
cifc must be maintained, the region to
the North including Delaware, must be
taken in, and Kansas must be " con-
quered and confscated," and "trans-
ferred into slave State of the Confed-
eracy" The announcement with regard
to citizenship, which we copy below, will
interest the countrymen of General Cor
coran and Sigel:


"All foreigners save those now resi-
dent in the South are to be excluded
from citizenship and office. With the
exception of these, and after that time
no more votes should be allowed and no
more Offices be held; except by natice
born citizens of the Confederacy The
naturalization law of the old government
has proved of little benefit to the South.
ern States, while our Southern adopted
citizens have proven themselves reliable,
faithful and true to our institutions of the
South, those of the North, who outnumber
them twenty to one, have universally ar.


rayed themselves foremost and in front


of Lincoln's hordes in the work of rapine
murder and destruction against the


South. Hereafter, then, we can make
no distinction between the Yankee and


the foreigner, and both must necessarily
be debarred of the privilege Of citizen


ship in the Confederacy"