Terms Of Peace

Wi nlready know tho ternis the rebela vwll proposo, Ttiuy will dernund disuuiufi and división. These they cannot Iwva. Tho govornrnent, tho army, all politici] piirties, ::ro plcdged to the! loaintcnanoo oí the Union uijimpairod. Thi'v will accept nothing (hort oí thi. Such a peace must be conquered. lt is folly to hope for a reviva! of ootifidence in the South, or a return of csteum, unlees these are brought a'jout bv forcé of arma. An officer, who hx scen inuch service, reccntly romarked thut hoth aillos woujd eontiniw n 'ight muil they fiíught oul into good nature - This resiilt o f ten ocoiua in lej extonpive combata. lie mv itlroady that the two nrmies had fuught out nto a position vrhero thev had greiitw respect for p:ich othor. Tho belitljiug talk that provyiled on euch side at thooutbreak of tho war has ceased. Thu boast th:tt one Sonthenisr w.ms good íor five Northerners is hoard no more. The feeüng that tho South liad no persevornnce, no endurancc, and slin resources, that ita valor was all in words, ht been svvept away, and juster itluas of the Dataré of the controversy and of thu mon engaged prevuil, The armies havo loarnod to rt-spoct oach othor, and - aftcr these tnnny hard fought and hotly-contented fields, all of each sido must adinit that men capnble of such fighting should not be Íuup, and that, united and indivisible, they could maintain the honor of tho old flag and the integrity of America against whatever foes should assail thcm. We have ,said that n pcace must be conquerud. lt niay bu conquered either by phyeicia! ovorwhelming force in the field - the display and use of large rosouree and more men - or by the overwhelming of the prejudice and passion which innugurated the war, and whioh thus far prevent any solution oí our d'BSculties Thoro is but one course open, and that is, to go on reo lu'.ely, and to prosecute this war with an unergy and an activity which as sumo that it can only termínate by the utter annihi'ation ot the rubel army and the destruction of all its resources. In the progresa of accorupliühing this we may prepare to roceive propositions of peace. It vvill hardly do to nogbtintu wiih rebels in arms, and, least of all, whilu they deern thomselvesthe stongest.