Year: 1864

It appears to us that sufficient impOrtanc


has not been given to the announcement


made by the Confederate Congress in thei


recent address to the world. The Abolition
papers declare the South will listen to NJ


terms that do not involve the com plett


recognition of the Southern Confederacy, ,bu


half dozen of these journals published the


address referred to? We believe not. And


have even our own readers marked with
care the following significant paragraph in
| that document? 1t says: ....


"FoRBEAR AGGRESSION UPON Us, AND THE
WAR Is AT AN END. If THERE BE QUESTIONS
WHICH REQUIRE ADJUSTMENT BY NEaoTIA-
TIoN, WE HAVE EVER BEEN WILLING, ANr
ARE STILL WILLING, TO ENTER INTO COM
MUNICATIoN WITH OUR ADvERsARIES IN A
SPIRIT OF PEACE, OF EQUITY AND OF MANLY
FRANKNEss. STRONG IN THE PERSUASION OF
THE JUSTICE OF OUR CAUSE, IN THE MANLY
DEVOTION OF OUR CITIZEN SOLDIERS, AND OF
THE WHOLE BODY OF OUR PEOPLE, AND, ABOVE
ALL, IN THE GRACIOUS PROTECTION OF
HEAVEN, WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO
AVOW A SINCERE DESIRE FOR
PEACE ON TERMS CONSISTENT L
WITH OUR HONOR AND THE PERMA-
NENT SECURITY OF OUR RIGHTS"


No man with particle of reason or fair
ness in his composition can refuse to comply
with the above. The offer is frankly and
manfully made, and even the most mistaken
northerner cannot for a moment suppose
that it is the offspring Of fear or cowardice
In the darkest days of the South they dis
daned to make such a proposition as the
above, fearing that a wrong construction
might be put upon it. But their condition
is different now, and it becomes the North,
II there be one particle of manliness among
US, to meet the offer in the same spirit In
which it is made. 1t is gratifying to know
that even one Republican paper is disposed
to speak of this Confederate address in re-
spectacle terms. The Boston Traveller, of
a late date, says:


Both sections of the country begin to
see that in th US rushing into war, they fail
ed to obey the scriptural injunction to count
the cost, and they each undertook a work
which was beyond their power to accom-
plish.


"Thsre is a manifest ch auge in the opin-
IOuo ab1 'SSi'br@S Va IhO HSOpAO OOlu az lu0
South and the Moth, as is evinced in con-
versation, in letters, in the press and in the
spirit OF public docum ents and political ad-
dresses. We look upon this as decid ed
ly favorable omen, and anticipate that our
difficulties will be so far settled that hostili-
ties will be so far settled that hostilites will
cease possibly before the first of January,
and at the farthest before the commence
ment Of the planting season next spring.


"The manifesto of the rebel Congress-
which we publish to dav, is a docum ont
much less arrogant and defiant than any
thing which has yet come from that quarter,
and though some may think it is dictated
by mere policy, yet it must be remembered
that if it is even so, they have never stopped
to policy befoIe. 1t is manifestly an over
ture for peace, on any terms except those OF
unconditional surrender and submission,
which last can hardly be expected of any
people or armies that have evinced so much
valor and made so many sacrifices in war"


These words evince sign of returning
reason, and we trust such sentiments will
spread Day Book.