The Views in the Northwest about peace
A gentleman of intelligence, who has had good opportunities for observing Northern , has recently arrived in Jackson Mississippi, from Memphis, and gives the Mississippian the following in regard to the peace feeling among the Yankees:There is a peace party at the North--a strong and active party, nearly equal — may be suite equal, or even numerically superior to this war party — and the bitterness between these parties is very intense, and the irreconcilable. But our informant does not believe that such fond will ever provoke any weapons more dangerous than words. He believes the conscript law will be enforced and that the malcontents will yield, like those in Noble county, Ohio, did yield, by flight, before the appearance of an armed and organized soldiery.
He does not believe the Democrats will make fight, and regards the Chicago. Times and the organ of Ex Governor Modary, as already preparing to back squarely down "In obedience to the laws, and subject to the Constitutional" This is only an opinion, but our informant entertains it with great confidence.
The Northern Democrat in favor of peace, and against Lincoln and the Abolitionists, and in favor of the South, self styled Southern rights men, are not, as a mass, in favor of our separate nationality; it is peace, political equality, guaranteed rights and re-union, that they want; and if in power to-day, these are all that would be offered us. What we most need of all things on earth to stop the war and bring peace is, to roll back this tide of a vision to the Ohio river; to achieve some great, crushing and telling victories, and so remove the theatre of war as to bring its horrid relation home to the Yankees. It the South would put forth its strength and drive the foe out of our cities and and hurt him back on his there would be a cry for peace at the North.
But while their armies can live and grow rich in the heart of the South, and the whole country of the foe realize an unprecedented prosperity in business, which they have done, and are now doing, and speak of the war against the rebels with the same unconcern as we used to speak to the Seminole war in Florida, the masses have no motive to penes
Little do they care for dead Yankees; they have plenty and can afford to lose them. It is living interests, and not dead soldiers about which they interest themselves. They must be whipped, backed out of the country, and their military strength greatly shattered before the true cry for peace on the ground of Southern independence will even be heard. These results might be greatly hastened by foreign recognition, and the presence of a conquering Confederate fleet.
