The Mountain Democrat

The Days of Peace. - The New York Tribune, of May 30th, discourses as follows: "Our country is again at peace - we trust for a century. We shall begin at once to repair and reconstruct, to reopen dismantled railroads, to rebuild burned cities, and to replace the fences which have been swept from many thousands of acres. From this hour forth each day will witness an increase of our national wealth, and the census of 1870 will show a decided gain, both in population and property, over that of 1860, though half a million lives and four thousand millions worth of property have been devoured by our civil war. But to this end it is essential that there be no looking backward - no nursing of feuds - no cherishing of hatreds born of our great contest. Let the law and its ministers do their proper work; but let no man be popularly proscribed, stigmatized or ostracised, in any section, for the part he has borne in the bygone struggle. If Unionists are to be mobbed or otherwise hunted out in strongholds of rebel feeling, or if those who have been rebels are to be thus buffeted by Union neighborhoods, we shall have no true peace, no revival of prosperity, but general bitterness and social anarchy. All good men must unite in frowning down every attempt to perpetuate in peace the antipathies inseparable from war."