Year: 1863




In two years, as many persons hope,
We may possibly nave peace-that is, al
ways provided we continue to repulSe
and defeat the invading enemy. The
yankee Democracy" is certainly rouS-
ing itself, and preparing for new strug-
gle (at the ballot box) for the great cause
of the "spoils," or, as they call it, the
cause Of Constitutional Liberty. Those
Liberty Democrats are evidently be-
ginning to raise a Peace platform for
their next Presidential election; and if
they have the good luck to be helped on
and sustained by more and more serious
disasters of the Yankee army in the
field, there is no doubt that the present
devourers of the said spoils at Washing
ton may soon be so discredited and de-
cried that our enemys country would
he ripe for such peaceful ballot-box revo-
Luton,


1t is sincerely to be hoped that those
earnest champions of constitutional free
dom will be helped on and sustained in
the manner they reqUire-namcly, by
continued and severe reverSeS III the
field; and it ID the first and most urgent
duty of our countrymen so to help and
suatlin that Democratic party. 1t is
nothing to US which of their functions
may devour the "spoils;" just as little
does it signify to us whether they recov-
er or do not recover that constitutional
liberty which they so wantonly threw
away in the mad pursuit OF southern con-
quest and plunder But it is the utmost
importance to us to aid instimulating
disatiection among the Yankees against
their own Government, and demoralzing
and disintegrating society in that God
abandoned country. We can do this
only in one way-namely, by thrashing
their armies and carrying the war to
their own fresides. Then, indeed, con-
scientious constitutional principles will
hold sway; peace platforms will look at
tractive; arbitrary arrest will become
odious and habeaS corpus be quoted at a
premium This is the only way we can
help them. In this sense, and to this
extent, those Democrats are truly our
allies, and we shall endeavor to do our
duty by:them.


But they evidently look for other and
further help at our hands, and of quite
IL ulu6ECuI SUIT. NJ UOuOG tHty are
pleased for the present, with the efficient
aid which the Confederate army is afford
ing them. Chancellorville was God
send to them, and the tremendous repulse
at Port Hudson is quite plank iu their
platform Yet they understand very
we'll that no matter how soundly their
armies may be happily beaten; no mat
ter how completely Lincoln S present war
policy may be condemned by its results,
yet all this will not be enough to enable
the unterrifed Democracy to clutch the
"spoils or, as they phrase it, to restore
the Constitution of their fathers. This,
of itself, would never give them a Peace
Democrat President aud Cabinet; it
would only result in another Abolition
ist administration, with new Secretary
of War, and a new Commanderin-C Chief,
and slightly different programme for
" crushing the rebellion" Those Black
Republicans are in power; after long
waiting, .pining, intriguing in the cold
shade of the opposition; and they have
now the numerical preponderance so de-
cidedly that they both can and will hold
on to the office with q clutch like death.
The Democrats can do absolutely moth
ing without "the South, as they persist
in terming these Confederate States;
and they cannot bring themselves to ad
NIT the thought that he would refuse to
unite with them (as alas! we used to do,
in a grand universal Presidential cam
paign, for a Democratic President, will
Peace platform, and the Constitution
as it is In fact, this whole two years
war, and the two years more war whicl
has to be gone through, is itself, in thei
ewes, only Presidential campaign, onl,
somewhat more vivacious than ordi
nary.


This explains the Vallandigham peac
meetings in New York and New Jersey
and the "many declarations " of Nj
Horatio Seymour and other patriots
"Do not let us forget" says Fernand
Wood, writing to the Philadelphia meet
ing, that those who perpetrate sue
outrages as the arrest and Punishment Q
Vallandigham, do so as necessary wa
measures. Let US, therefore, strike a


the cause, and declare for peace dgainS
The 100r."


This would sound very well if the sal
declaring for peace" could have an
effect whatever in bringing about peace
If man falling from a tower could al
rest his fall by declaring against it, the
the declarations of Democrats again:
the war might be of some avail. AS


is, they resemble that emphatic prt
nouncement of Mr. Washington Hunt