THE PEACE BUBBLE: RESULT OF MR. BLAIR’S MISSION; HE ADMITS IT TO BE “A FAILURE” (1/28/1865)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/28/1865

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 27.

The peace bubble that has for ten days past floated so brilliantly before the gaze of men, has to-day come to a sudden collapse. Late last evening FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Sr., returned from Richmond, and brought with him precisely what sensible men expected -- that is, just nothing. He brought neither olive branch in his hand, Peace Commissioners under his cloak, nor a treaty in his pocket. His mission, so far as practical results are concerned, is, in fact, as Mr. BLAIR expressed himself to-day, "a total failure."

That JEFF DAVIS desires peace, his own oft-repeated official announcements leave us no room to doubt; but we now know that as condition precedent to any overture looking to this end, he demands, first, that negotiations shall be conducted as between two independent nationalities; and, second, that pending such negotiations an armistice shall be proclaimed.

Neither of these propositions, it need be said, can be accepted by this Government. To yield either would be, in fact, to surrender the whole issue of the war. There is not the slightest disposition on the part of the Administration to do either the one or the other.

The dominant tone of the rebel chiefs is substantially indicated in a semi-official utterance published in JEFF. DAVIS' organ, at the very time Mr. BLAIR was in Richmond. It is comprised in the distinct alternative, "independence or subjugation." In such an alternative there is no room for hesitation on our part.

Turning aside, therefore, from this dream of peace, which has for a time beguiled so many, the nation soberly addresses itself to the work of war, through a continued vigorous prosecution of which a satisfactory peace can alone be obtained. The rebellion will be ended as most

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The Peace Bubble: Result of Mr. Blair’s Mission– 2
The Rebel Iron-Clad Raid: Preparations for Future Demonstrations – 2-3
News from Rebel Sources – 3-4
The Oil Question: First Use of Canada Oil – 4-5
News from Washington – 5
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 5-6
Editorial: The Peace Delusion – 6
Editorial: The Winding-up Campaign – 6
From Panama-Arrival of the North Star – 6

[Eli Kopter]

“The peace bubble that has for ten days past floated so brilliantly before the gaze of men, has to-day come to a sudden collapse. Late last evening FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Sr., returned from Richmond, and brought with him precisely what sensible men expected — that is, just nothing.”

I thought you were quoting Tony Blair, the former British PM. If you substitute Israel for Richmond, it would be the same quote.