The Xenia Sentinel

An Armistice.

We clip the following from a speech delivered by Henry Stanbery, Esq., at Newport, Ky.

Nothing seems to me more certain than that the election of McClellan, followed by an armistice and a convention, will end the struggle and the Union together. We shall then have peace, but it will be a peace purchased by dismemberment—a peace that destroys our nationality—a peace in which we get nothing and surrender everything—a peace which compels us to lower our flag all over that great southern region, first purchased by our treasure, and since repossessed by the precious blood of our soldiers and sailors—a peace which changes us from a great nation, feared and respected all over the world, into disjointed and crumbling elements, with new flags, new boundaries, new names and new treaties. That precious Union which has passed, is to perish in our degenerate hands and we must straightway set to work to reconstruct our North American map.

We must mark off the boundaries of the two governments, and run a line of division from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, and perhaps to the Pacific. This line—the only one the South will agree to—must begin on the Atlantic coast, and run west by the old Mason and Dixon line to the Ohio river, along that river to the Mississippi, then up the Mississippi as to include Missouri, and from the southwest corner of that State to the West indefinitely.

Look at your maps, and see what will be left, north and west of that line. This Southern Confederacy will have more than two-thirds of our sea coast, and all our Gulf coast. They will have the mouth of Chesapeake, National capital, and the control of the Mississippi.