Year: 1861

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nally made, but his proposition mutlated and


made ole siye by two ecessioni,ts-Ireck-


iurde and Poweil) 1.-THE advocates, we say,


Of that dead proposition have never been


known TO speak Of the villanous conspira-


tors who have brought the present Difficult


ties upon the land in any other than the most


ailectionatc and endenrng manner. They
were horror stricken at the mention of coer


cion, at the time they now sometimes half
admit coercion should have been applied.
| When conspiracy was young, and the south
crn people were known to be opposed to it;


when the hanging Of Davis, Toombs and


WigGll for high treason at Washington
might perhaps, have saved rs from the pres
ent war; when Union papers in the border
Stetc4, unawcd by Cotton States troops, dared
to dcnounce the rebel chiefs in terms as en-
phatic as any We ever used when, in short,
there was simply a revolution on paper
among old line scces.ioni.ts, who had been
time aud again rebuked by their. own people,
the present advocates Of peace could
find no word Of condemnation for even
the arrogant stilf-nccked, reJellious and
ari tocratic little State Of South Carolina
They then confined lhmsclyea to predictions
as to how many States would follow the lead
Of the scIl-choscn rulers of that comparative


y Insignificant State They were filled with
| compassion for the rebels when they were


weak, and they have from that time to this


avoided all remonsranccs against the forma-
| iess to be great anti-war party. In Gods


name, what are armies formed for but for


war? Can there be any honesty among those
who have hcconc anti-war men since the


18th Of April, simply because the Govern
ment then decided to call out troops? DO
these gentlemen think to make sane men be |
lcve that they desire peace when they were
filed with giee at every receipt Of news Of
wallike demonstrations in the Cotton States
IT is time that the friends of jefferson Da-
Wis here should cease talking non3ense.-
They cannot deceive anybody by shouting
peace to the friends Of the Government alone
If they desire peace, let them call to their
own dogs of war Their drveing stuff
about peace and compromise is fit only to be
addressed to idiots and children. If Lincoln
and his Cabinet had decided upon less active
measures for resisting rebellion, than have
been adopted, the whole world would have
said that the Nation ought TO 90 to pieces
Who is not for peace? We would welcome
the restoration of peace as gladly as we
wouldthc millennium. Would the Brcckiuridgc
leaders like to hear that peace had been re
stored 10y the voluntary disbandmcnt of the |
rebel hosts the restoration Of stolen property, |
and submission TO the laws of the United
States, not one Of which is the work Of enc


mics Of the South? No. Every man Of
sense knows better.


The pretended pcacc-makers hcreabout


would gnash their teeth with rage, were they
TO learn that the rebels had quietly placed
affairs as they stood last November. It's not
peace they want They want the United


States Government to bury itself in the inra.


my of a non-rcsistant policy. The do mt
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never asked for, hoped for, counselcd or al


luded to any other kind of peace They


know that the Secessionists have threatened,
intended, planned for and commenced war
They never failed to attack the Governm cnt |
whether it did anything or did nothing. No
demand has been made upon the Government.
The Congress could not, if it would, offer
terms for peace in July, for nobody yet even
knows what treason wonld ike to be allowed
to do. All we do know is TO the effect that
the recognition of Southern Confederacy,
to be composed of all tie Stare States might
possibly be considered satisfactory. That
would take Maryland, aud with it the Dis
uict OF Columbia. The Capital of the |
Nation would have to be evacuated,


Do the reace-mongers here seriously be
lcve that we want peace earnestly enough to
grant such demands? Do the friends of the
traitors suppose that there are no white men
North of Mason and DiXons line and no
loyal men South Of it? We would rather
see every house and hut in America burned
to the ground and the whole population
swept into eternity, rather than that peace
should be had upon terms so mean, cowardly
and disgrnceful as would be those now ap
parent If peace is SO desirable let rebellion
crook its insolent neck little Do not tell
us that the Nation must lie down and be
kicked to death merely because the terrible
Secessionists will never yield. If they can.
not yield, the war must go on. They in
ouguraed it while they had a majority in
Congress- and all the laws were of their own
making. Let them stop it whenever they
think it is too distressing. Our people are
not blood thirsty but neither are they blood
less They shuddcr at war, but they will not
avoid war commenced upon them. Let
the pcace-croakcrs in California entreat Of
their brethren in Cottonlom to restore peace.
Let them no longer insult loyal mon by ex-
hortng them to kiss the rod of jeff Davis


If this is a matter of brotherly love- let the
fraternal spirit of California Secessonsts
now display itself for while in manifesto
tons Of regard for the honor and lives OF
honest men who are true to the Government
If they have no "brethren" except among the
traitors, let them mind their own business,
and we will attend to ours.


A BuENING SHANE The appearance o.
the following paragraph in the PaceryilIe
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