The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Yankee View of Peach resolutions

--The good effect at the North of the superfluous resolutions about peace offered in the Confederate House of Representatives may be pretty accurately estimated by the following from the New York Express about a screes recently offered in that body:

Mr. Conrad was Mr. Fillmore's Secretary of War--and an old Whig — and this proposition from him, accepted by the rebel Congress, at least "to refer." indicates a rising peace feeling South, which, if responded to here, will soon bring us together once more. There is but little in Mr. Conrad's proposition above to condemn, (nay, on the contrary, a vein of kindness hitherto unknown in all Southern talk,) save the use of the words "independence of these States," which may, or may not, mean little or much; for the "independence of States" is no new theory under our form of Government, and the Southern theory ever has been that the States are sovereign and independent — so that here there is very little that is new. But, be this as it may, upon the start of any negotiation it is all any public could expect; and indicating, as the resolution does, with its reference a spirit for peace, we welcome it as the first political olive branch we have had for a long time from the South.