Year: 1863

posals Tor peace proposals OF Its own,
for it has none of ours to .consider-not-
withstaading the white flag that has been
seen In the heavens by a respectable wo-
man, and the march of aerial troops
northward, witnessed by man of good
character, in the clouds, there is not the
slightest prospect of speedy peace visi-
BILE to US. There will be no peace until
the military power of the Yankee nation
is entirely broken, and its people so
thoroughly sickened of the war that we
can exact our own terms.


Save on our own terms we can accept
no peace whatever, and must fight till
doomsday rather than yield an iota of
them; and our terms are:


Recognition by the enemy of the indie
pendence of the Confederate States.


Withdrawal OF Yankee forces from ev-
cry foot of Confederate ground, includ-
ing Kentucky and Missouri.


Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from
Maryland until that State shall decide by
free vote, whether she shall remain in
the old Union or ask admission into the
Confederacy.


Consent on the part of the Federal
Government to give up to the Confeder-
acy its proportion of the navy as it
stood at the time of secession, or to pay
for the same.


Yielding up of all pretensions, on the
part of the Federal Government, to that
portion of the old Territories which lie
west of the Confederate States.


An equitable settlement-on the basis
of our absolute independence and equal
rights-of all accounts of public debt
and public lands, and of the advantages
accruing!from foreign treaties.


These provisions, we apprehend, COM
prise the minimum of what we must re-
quire before we lay down our arms.
That is to say, the North must yield all
we nothing. The whole pretensions
of that country to prevent by force the
separation of the States must be aban-
doned, (which, will be equivalent
to an avowal that our enemies were
wrong from the first; and, of course, as
| they waged causeless and wicked war
upon us, they ought, in strict justice, to
be required, according to usage in such
cases, to reimburse to US the whole of
our expenses and losses in the course of
that war.


Whether this last proviso is to be IL
sisted upon or not, certain we are that
VIC cannot have any peace at all until we
shall be in position, mot only to demand
and exact, but also to enforce aud col
! lect, the treasure for our own reimburse
ment out of the wealthy cities in the en-
emy's country In other words, unless
we can destroy and scatter their Govern
ment, we can have no peace; and if we
can do that, then we can, and ought not
only to extort from them our own full
terms, and ample acknowledgement of
| their wrong, but also a handsome indem-
nifty for the trouble and expense caused
to us by their crime.


Now, we are not yet in a position to
dictate those terms to our enemies, with
Rcsecrans army still in the heart of our
country, and Meade still on Virginia
soil; but though it is too soon to propose
ant that we should keep them plainly
before our own eyes as the only admissa-
bic basis of any conceivable peace This
well fixed in the Confederate mind, there
will be no more fearful looking for of
news from Europe, as if that blessed
peace were to come to US over the sea,
and not to be conquered on our own
ground; no more gaping for hints of rec
ognition, filing the belly with the east
wind" no more distraction or diversion
from the single momentous business OF
bracing up every nerve and sinew of the
country for battle.


1t is especially now, at a moment
when great and perhaps decisive battles
are impending at two or three points,
that we think it most essential to insist
upon the grand entire magnifcence Of
the stake and of the cause. Once more
ace say it is all or nothing. This Con
federdcy or the Yankee nation, one on
the other, goes dOsUn, dosgR to perditiOa;
that is to sag, one or the other must for
felt ats national eristence, and lie at tht
mercy of ats mortal enemy We al
know by this time the fate in store for u;
if we succumb. The other party has nc
smaller stake. As surely as aCe com
pletely ruin their armies-and 1cithotI
e2setk rzooe IsVl-. trpur QE 0tt-SO s1LrgZl
shall ace make them pay our auar debt
though tCe io7-ing it oatt Of their hearts
anu bnCN hlAOH IL nCAAj anu thClCiOA'
they cannot make peace except through
utter exhaustion and absoiate inabilit,
; to strike another blow


: The stake they have to forfeit, if the


lose this dreadful game, is as vital a


ours. So is the stake to be won, if the


win anything. 1t is no less than entir


possession of our whole country, with u


in it, and everything that is ours, fror


the Ohio to the Rio Grande, to have an


to hold to them and their heirs forevel


But, on the other hand, what we mean {


win is utter separation from them for a


time We do not want to govern the


country; but after levying upon it VIII;


seemeth good to us, by way of indemn


ty, we leave it to commence its polite;


life again from the beginning, hopin


that the lesson may have made them sa


der and wiser Yankees We shut the


out forever, with all their unclean ar


scoundrelly ways, intending to lead oil


lives here in our own Confederate WI
within our own welLguarded bound


and without, as ST. John says, witho


are dogs.


- And let no Confederate of feeble kne


and tremulous backbone say to us, th
- complete triumph is impossible; say th


we must be content with some kind


compromise, and give and take. Ont


contrary, we must gain all or lose a
-, and that the Confederates will indie
We We win the giant game, we take to be as c.
RS. tain as any future event in this unc'
e e tain world. Meade's army and Ro'
* crans's once scattered, Lincoln can z
re- no more armies The draft turns c
t%di ,od manifestly fruitless. Both the Germ


and the Irish elements are now
ss1 ost peace. The Yankees have to bear t
old brunt of the war themselves; but, in I
ich meantime, their inevitable bankruptcy