Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Cry of Peace,” August 31, 1861

    Source citation
    “The Cry of Peace,” Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, August 31, 1861, p. 1: 7.
    Original source
    New York Express
    Newspaper: Publication
    Atchison Freedom’s Champion
    Newspaper: Headline
    The Cry of Peace
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    1
    Newspaper: Column
    7
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    THE CRY OF PEACE. – The New York Express thus pointedly and truthfully exposes the absurdity of the demand made for peace in a very few uninfluential quarters in the North:

    The only form of “peace” now existing as possible is the hauling down of the United States flag, from Fortress Monroe, on to Texas, and the complete [hearty?] recognition of the Secession flag. They who think of this sort of peace ought to maintain it by additional propositions for a standing army of at least three hundred thousand men – to be stretched in cordons from the line of the Susquehanna river, along all the bluffs of the Ohio and Missouri rivers – with fortresses to be erected on these bluffs costing at least $500 000,000 – for, unless this standing army follow and stand in these fortresses, the peace would not last – nay, not even long enough to build the fortresses!

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