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Rebel terms of peace.--Save on our terms, we can accept no peace whatever, and must fight till doomsday rather than yield an iota of them; and our terms are:
Recognition by the enemy of the independence of the confederate States.
Withdrawal of the Yankee forces from every foot of confederate ground, including Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from Maryland, until that State shall decide, by a free vote, whether she shall remain in the old Union or ask admission into the Confederacy.
Consent on the part of the Federal Government to give up to the Confederacy its proportion of the navy as it stood at the time of secession, or to pay for the same.
Yielding up of all pretensions on the part of the Federal Government to that portion of the old territories which lies west of the confederate States.
An equitable settlement, on the basis of our absolute independence and equal rights, of all accounts of the public debt and public lands, and the advantages accruing from foreign treaties.
These provisions, we apprehend, comprise the minimum of what we must require before we lay They have down our arms; that is to say, the North must yield all — we nothing.--Richmond Examiner.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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