PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN AMERICA.
The Melbourne Argus of the 17th instant says: —
" We have news by our Suez telegram that President Lincoln contemplates sending commissioners to Eichmond to arrange the terms of a peace. Nothing so auspicious has happened hitherto during the continuance of this, fratricidal war. All the overtures which have been made by the Confederate to the Federal Government have either been disdainfully rejected or disregarded. President Davis stands pledged by often repeated declarations to grasp the hand which should be held out to him in amity. A better guarantee to an amicable arrangement could scarcely be had than an overture from the stronger to the weaker side, provided the terms proposed be such as the Confederate Government can accept in consistency with their claim of a distract nationality. "We shall await the communication of additional, news with anxiety,'*
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Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 759, 31 January 1865, Page 3
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