Year: 1864

A PRoPosiTIoN.-We propose that by common
consent, the Hon. Mr. Boyce of South Carolina and


tne would be Governor of North Carolina be started


out IN search of some one to negotiate with. They


Insist upon 1t that the cannot be closed without


negotiation, in which we agree with them, and that
negotiations ought to be entered upon at once, in
which also we agree with them The only differ


ence between us is, that think there can't be


gotlatlons without the consent and concurrence of
the Yankees, whilst Mr.. Boyce and the Standard
either think otherwise or know of some Yankees
Who will negotiate. By all means let them have
every facility for finding those Yankees. Let them
take along with them in the search, which will
cessarlly lead them into Yankee land, many of
their followers they please, ard all the types and
presses of the Standard &c. Should they never
hnd their way back, there will be many a dry eye
in the Confederacy. If they can negotiate peace,
they will earn honor and fame. If they fail, why
they can at least stay in Yankee land, where they
cannot do the Confederacy half the harm they do
here ere.-FdyetteUiLe Observer.


Our amiable and witty friends of the Observer
seem to overlook the fact that Mr.. Boyce and the
Standard are not the only persons in the COnfed-
crate States who desire to negotiate. The Vice
President of the Confederate States, the Governor
of Georgia, nearly the entire delegation in Congress


from this State, shown by their votes at the last
session of Congress, and millions Of men, women,
1AAO III ILO NOuISNSLotS SIdbCo "C nOo1
anxious for peace and in favor of negotiatiOns.-
Even the O6serUer when it answers its purposes to
be so, is in favor of negotiations When it wants
votes for its candidates it is blatant for peace but
as the election is over it shouts for war
The war does not affect the Editors Of that paper.
They are making their jack by their manufac-
turing establishments, which arc encouraged and
sustained by the war but there stains OF blood,
and widows groans and orphans tears in all their
cotton fabrics and in all their kerosene oil. But
what is that to them? Their lives are not endan-
gered, and meanwhile they are adding to their
wealth day by day as the war continues. Of course
they war men, and of course, in their judgment,
every friend of negotiations is enemy TO the
country, because an enemy to their interests.


The Observer wants US to go to and "stay in
Yankee land" We have shown much less affec-
ton for Yankee land" during our past life, than
the senior Editor of the Observer. The time has
been when he invariably spent all his summers at
Saratoga and toadied to wealthy Yankees with the
supplest of knees and the blandest of smiles
North. Carolina watering places were too common
place and too Vulgar for his refined tastes. He is
constantly impeaching our loyalty. Our reply is,
that we have not trumpeted in paper, as he has,
what We have done for the Confederate cause; and
that in our opinion, if the Yankees should overrun
and occupy the country, he would be among the
irst to take the oath to save his person and his
property.


1t is a sad feature in the history. of the times
when persons who pass for Christians, as the Edi-
tors of the Observer do, rdcule the idea of peace
and make merry over the flow Of blood.


The Editors of the Observer are constantly in
dulgng in personalities, especially towards the Edi
tor of this paper. In their last issue they have
made remarks about US which are so low in their
character that We will not notice them. These re-
marks are based on recent article of ours showing
the scarcity of the means Of living; and our only
reply is that the Observer has deliberately and will
fully perverted portion of that article, and has
made it's perversion of it the occasion for personal
attack on us in which it imagines the cost of our
dinner, and holds US up as faring sumptuously and
at the time having no pity on our suffering fell
low-beings. But we can afford to be Indifferent to
the opinions and co1rse Of the Observer We nGith-
er fear its influence nor desire its friendship. is
Destructive in all its sentiments aud tendencies
and it is proverbaly and malignant in every
controversy in which it engages. 1t seems to have
no shame, and but little if any sense of decency;
and we make no doubt that but for the fact that it
is read and patronized by some persons of educa-
ton and refined tastes, it would soon become as de-
PRAYED in its language and style Spelman's State
Journal