Peace Proposition

An offer of peace, we believe, would ba successful, upou - the simple basis of the subruission öf the rebellious Status to the Union, leaving the blacks ai.d slavory as tbe war bas lift them, and going no further. And wby should the adrninistratiou insist upon absolute abolitiou as the triaiu condition of peace, wheD the institutior. of slavery has becoine so weakeued a d demoralized by the war that it must die if left to tnke its chancea in the reconstruction of the Union ? Mr. Linoolu'a peaee ultimatum to th ! rebal volnntfcr corüiaissioners, at Nhigara Filis, was a clever device to bluff theui ofi; ;iud it was not regarded asanything more. If it ia to bo tried now in a more 8erions peace mnvemeut, it will be only regarded as a devioe for a little politieal capital, upon which to push the war into au abalition crusade Sach a war may bring us peace after .he exterminaüon of the Southej'n blacks etween two abolition firon; but why should we proceed to such cruel ex'remities wheu peace may be obtained more cheap'y and advantageously to whites atid blaukg, North and Sou'.h, and to the Jnion and to the adrninistration. upon the simp'e plan of subinission to the Uuion? This is the question to which we would e dl the special and thoughtful attention