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The Richmond Examiner ha collerted rate vicKiries of the pat four months hve tojeihcr earnest article in favor of peace Jwade radical change in Northern opin-', fiofti tweli" Northern daper, vizi the I ion aud if Heaven shall vouchsafe a con- Nw Yoik Tribune, Evefiiiixl't,Kun(hy I tiuaice of our successes.' we' tdiairWon lertury, lr una, ivwh. anc tde Metro- pac upon our own lerms, or me folitan lecordihV Kochihter Hepuhlican,' Nrtlr, will have war t home.' lf on the TMj Press;' Franklin (Ni T) (iazette, other lund our armies should be defeated, Washington ' City 'Constitutional Union, the tope of Nortiiern 'piiiin will be total ' IJajMoh (Ohio) Kiiipire, and ChicasoTimes. Ij ch'ajied, and the cry Wilt then be tt aome oi uiese nave ueen ultra war paper, and all of them it advocates, ' Their pres ent poMtion'shftw' a great change in pb lie sentiment. Not deeminl; it worth while i copy these extract in full, the Fayette vitle Observer gives the folsowinz brief i'ntenu nt of the views of these papers: The Tribune savs that two-thirds of the American people, on both sides, arxioi.ly, war to the last extrrmity. ' How much therefore, depends upijn success' in the tie Id ! 4et people at home pray for it as earnestly as the soldiers in 'the field fight for it gallantly. FOREIGN OPLNIOX.; , From tha LtnJon Tiraet Anj.Jl. ' 'I'll a vmIii if tK Pilr-il ann. nti,.rbiiigly desire peace, and are ready t ce8se in .Georgia is restly diminished nuke all needful sacrifices to Insure it. It Ind the importance of Geeral Lee's sue wants to 4now ihe ultimatain r each par- cesses greatly increased, by the now evit ty, and is nut afraid of virtually acknowt dent weariness of the war which i creep rding the independence of the rcbeU by in; over the North. Our columns on Mbn li:eninj to prnpiition' from them. day contained some most remarkable ex The Evening ppt jafs.lhe party which tracts from influential oDers. exoressinar can arcoirtplish peace will win the approval the very same opinions of the hopelessness nd suflVaje of the nation. ' . uf the struggle, and the very same conclu- The Mercury says a revolution js taking .ions in favor of peace, wjiich have been so y.ace in men's opinions. The war i not f-'ng urged mi this side of the Atlantic lirosecutrd with enthusiasm, the govern- When the New Yrk Herald discusses the niejit bring demented and inefficient and posibility of failure,, and , considers the . r -1 a I - a . . . mi- pe'pie weary oi mcir cares ano our. question ot bemi contented " wita wtar v.en. The Arfmiiiutratinn neither ilestre. 1 We have ot," the temper of tie Americao tor experts peace.'but with the people aii public must be creailr clunieJ., It ap- sgonf7.inpriyerfrtr it is going up. " We pears, too. that a person of no les position wut a teitored t'nion if we can get it: if than Mr. Horace Greeley has been cafrv- it cannot be lud in name.'perhaps e may ling no. a sort nf private negotiation with attain it in substance under new names, some important members ef the t.onfedera- ' It is beUr to give up a million cv, who have been staying for that punme l subjects rather than one nlank m the on the British de of Niagara Falls. Mr. Hill ol Rights." Liocolu's obstinacy in laying, down ahso Tlie World says that "the new Presi-llutely impossikle terms as a basis for any dent, to be nominated at Chicago and! agreement, luturallv broke off the negtia vlected in November, must be ready and lions at once ; but that Mr. Greeley should willing tu meet any and every overture for be engaged in su:H communication is a peace." fact ui itself highlr significant. 'I he News looks for peace a the sequel A similar toduation, if it be nothing o( an armuiiee and a National ConveniiuD. j nirr, of the set of public feeling, is afiard , 'III e Metropolitan Reeoid ays that the ed Mr the reported discovery of a wide Imp of restoring the Union " have melt pread conspiracy in the Mississippi val! ed away like the mists of the wo'iiing;" ley for establishing a new confederacy in j reciuiting is a failutr, the working elates ihe Noriliest. It was but lately that w are evidently determined no longer to sub drew attention to a tetter from a gentleman toil t Lincoln's tyranny. "The aurmurs of considerable influence in Ohio, which itf discontent that are heard throughout the threatened this Very movement. The atk whole North, are but the precursors of the tempt may end 'in nothing for the present, storm that is rapidly gathering, and that bat the feeling it displays must be rowing will one day sweep every vestige against into considerable importance. While this the war of tyranny off the land. The pro- spirit is spreading, the President hat issu -k demand that thhJiendUh work thnUend. ed a call lr half a million ' more troops by The call of the Autocrat for five hundred the 5lh ef September, and threatens to fill thousand more victims has been received up by conscription all quota that are in- with a sullen resolution to.suuinit no far- complete by that date. Sack a confession thet to his rantrous demands." of the vatnes of the task still remaining The Rochester Republican says the great to be accompliaAed, "d such an ill-timed mass of all parties are for peace, if it can threat ot an obnoxious expedient, will not v We had with a restored Union and a rrtor- tend to remove the Federal despondency. " ed Constitution, even with slavery where We find, accordingly, that in New Yoik it'still exist. The cry fur peace tnust be the proclamation is received in the mot heard. business-like way, and, instead of readily The Washington Union says that0 the responding as of Jd, the state evidently cry for peace is rung into our ears from make up its mind to strike as hard a bar- rvery section and from all divisions and gain wiiit the President as it poibly can. parties." Even the fanatics are cooled The best comment on the position ol aft Virs down by the slaughter and physical suffer-1 i again afforded by the price ot row. - From (he Daily ConfeJerste. We give a place to the communication of" Farmer and dissent totallv from' his reasoning and conclusion as applicable to the present condition of the countryor the preaeui siaieoi nungs. ; 1 he quotation from Sidney Smith embo dies a tissue of fallacies, even in its appli- ..;..,. ... if l l e . . i ' l f. i .auou iu r.ngiiind, iur wincn loramy aione u was written, anq to which alone u was intended to be applied : for, in--England. of all 'countries, it is a fixed fct, that Far mers " do have the nower. and do exercise it, to Ax the price of corn ;" arid before the opening' of the North. Wesiern granaries, the farmer of England being without a ri val, neld the people at command unre Itrained.'so lon ai lie ' could force public and private charity to do Its work of keep ing down the pernicious riots, that at once begin when bread is withheld. But if S'dnev Smith was correct in his assertion of a general principle, it ought ii w i, iii escape rarmer, xnaioia principle is applicable to countries. in, a normal, not in an abnormal State. The, great e rror of men us our day is, that they have failed to Consider that we are rggiged in a war for f xistence and the physician would be as wise who administered the diet of health to a patient in raving-feveras the meta physician who endeavors toply the rules which govern nations in lime of peace, to as in the revolutionary crisis through which we are pusing. " ' - Farmer' may lay the flattering unction to his soul, that ' the most benevolent, the most Christian, and the most profitable conduct the farmer can pursue, is to sail his csmmvditie for the highest price he can possiDiy oDiain, and may revel in the eojos ment which this exquisite solace af fords, when the poor are staring famine in the face all areund ; but what will become ot Ins comlort, when le comes to find that these highest prices" have flooded the land with a currencv beggared by its re Uondaacy worthless by the very inflation which " F-nuer" has necessitated by hi 9 " most benevolent, most cfrristian and most profitable conduct;" when this inordinate inflation recoils upon his government, to be met by correspnuding taxation, with all the attendant evrfs) when this burden be comes more grievous; or else, when stag gering under the recoil, repudiation, with li its blighting influeuce on morals and oredit, national and individual, shall come? We do not mean to be disrespectful to "Farmer personally, but we are so wel convinced of the deep importance of the abject,' that we cannot withhold the ex preasioif of our opinion, that the reckless', inordinate prices the speculation and ex tortionare doing more today, to retard; peace, to prolong the war, to aid the ene my; t endanger the nationthan the Yan kee armies wild their bullets and bayonets. And our soldier will tight battles in tain; failure, lamentable, ignominious failure, will be our doom, nnless some radical change is effected in the people. If the furmtrt are wise and patriotic, they will Met the example. v cidedly apparent than it ever was before. because the blockade prevents importation, and possession by the government of the railroads, and the impressments of more than all the surplus horses and mules, pre vents distant transportation within the Confederacy. The bestthing our govern meni couiu nave done at the beginning of the war, and the best thing it can do' now, is to outbid all (speculators included) for provisions, and then deplete the packets of the farmers by taxation pay out with one hand, and take In with the other. - 1 V By the forcible taking from the farmers their productions at ball price, a premium has been offered for the practice of avarice and selfishness. A. refuses to sell to the speculators and keeps bis provisions and sells to the poor at half price. But the government steps in and taUs them away from him, paying less than that. B., his neighbor, withoutcharity and devoid of patriotism, ureauing a visiurom me press man, ha9 sold his i for twice or thrice as much to the speculator, who extorts still more from the poor. That man is a fool who wishes to weaken, the prosperity of the farming class. . These are the founda tion ou which all other classes-are sun- portfd. Sap tl'is, and all the rest tumble down. .If. our fa rulers have failed to raise provisions enough fur the country, when" they could get one hundred dollars a barrel for corn, do the non producers and the go vernment expect they will raise a greater quantity, when they know it will be forci bly taken fiom them at twenty five? Veri ly, the world (or our part of it) seems ad vancing in knowledge, and the man who was of old set down as a fool for ripping 1 open the goose that laid golden eggs. was no fool atalL FARMER. in g and high price The Dayton Km pi re siys, "let the peo ple command that this cruel war he ended, and all differences between the Sute ie submitted to the arbitrament ol a conven tion." The Troy Press says the people should atop tj war by shoving aside extreme men and by concession, "conciliation and Compromise. The Chicago Times says that the neces aity for peace upon honorable terms is im urative. The alternatives are, peace with lonor and war with diihonnr; peace with preservation of life and war with its exten ded and murderous conflicts; peace with national and individual solvency and war with national and individual bankruptcy. . The Franklin Gazette says that hosts ol Republican! ire for peace, " even, if need be, upon terms of separation aid an ac knowledgment of Southern independence.' Not a mm volunteers now, but all are in tent pta keeping out tf the irtny.w which, even in the presence of rfi'eratrd reports oi me un oi Aiiau.a, reuuiucu 351. ' - - From the Pari Mmileqr, Auguat 3. "The foci i,'iht tht Lite events masi htve enli-'hui.eil the Preaident a to the real feeling of the people in the Norlh.j "e knows, that high prices stimulate The communication of a " Farmrr,' wbtch drew foru'i ih alovo icrmrka of the CovfrJerate, tobolaler up the r'Mili I wliich h take'a. commences with a rj.iiii,n f.,tm MiJney miih, an Engli! writer of l'uliiical Uioiiu:n. He then focreJ aa follows; Smith k tie, an every man of common ami shown him that ihcy are getting weary of tins terrible war. The sluggishness witn which the militia responded to the calls made upon it during the Confederate inva sion of Maryland the obstacles Mr. Fes sendeti has had to contend with in the ne gotiation of hit loan, which it is now said he is attempting to realize by public in scription ths imction of Graut before Pe tersburg the dissensions in the Cabinet, which seem likely to involve the retire ment of Mr. Stanton all this is calculated to Inspire Mr. Lincoln with lerioui reflec tions, and may possibly have suggested to him that the Union would rather prefer to re-elect a pacific than a warlike President." production. And " it happens very beau tifulty," that the fanner cannot hoard if he would. Should he attempt it, the weevil would destroy his grain, mil the worms his meat..- To mo it is as plain as day, that the true policy ot our government and the non-producing classes, is to encourage in every way the raising ot provisions; for it is universally-true, that whatever is abundant must be cheap. And this remark applies most emphatically to bread tad meat, on account of the impossibility of long preserving them. If the former rais ed but half crop of corn, he gets ten dol lars, a barrel for itit a double crop, he cannot get two. The. policy of, encourag ing domestic production now, is mors di- THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. The following reaolutions wera adopted at their platform, with bo I four dissenting voices, by the late Democratic Convention at Chicago : Resolved, That in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fi delity tr the Union nnderthe constitution as the only solid foundation of our strength, security and happiness as a people, and as a framework of government equally con ductive to the welfare and prosperity of all the States, both Northern and South ern. .. Resolved, That this Convention does ex plicitly declare as the sense of the Ameri can people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of a military necessity, or war power, higher than the Constitution, the Constitution it sell has been disregarded in every part, part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, anjlthe material pros perity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public welfare, demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation oP hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that, at the earliest practicable mo ment, peace may be restored on the basis f the Federal Union of the States. Resolved, That the direct interference of the military authority of the United States In the recent elections held in Ken tucky,, Maryland, Missouri and Delaware, was a shameful violation of the Constitu tion, 4d a repetition of such acts in the approaching election will be held as revo lutionary, and resisted with all the means and power under our control. Resolved, That the aim end object of the Democratic psrty is to preserve the Fede ral Union and the rights of the States un impaired, and they hereby declare that they consider the administrative usurpa tion of extraordinary and dangerous pow ers not granted by the Constitution; the subversion of the 'civil by military law in States not in insurrection the arbitrary ar rest, imprisonment, trial and sentence of American citizens in States where civil law exists in full force J the suppression of freedom ot speech and of the press; the denial of tbe right of asylum ; the open and avowed disregard of State rights ; the eta- t
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