;- _;v_ v _ Monday Morning, April 24, 1865. : Situation-of Affairs T~ There is a temporary truce between the armies. For a moment only, perhaps, the weapons of war are dropped, and th?' bp posing hosts take breath after tho perilous and protracted struggle. . Htt& soon taeV will resume their weapons, whether.they will e?rer resume them, ia the question. And if the war ceases, what are to iba- the conditions of the cessation? Theseiar? the questions, the solution of which Iks bid? den in the womb of time. ! Who can propose to solye it, even through .the mest logical conjecture^ Oui' Congress, ?mr peoole, our press?) A]?.*-! the one lias seemii glv surrendered! everyl thing to the Government; f lija Govern merit' yields everything to the President; fjhe peo. 'pie concede to Congress,?ajid the pres* li? neally no oracle, '?t rather feeds inp popu? lace vanity than seek to correct ii sj ?m o rs, rebuke its vanity, and inform its; under standing. What is *doney what ^hall he done, will be at the fiat of certain pertcus; possibly appoint* d by the President, whe will carry ou negotiation?, of wBich wr shall be .permit? fd to know nothing, uulii the telegraph shall tell us of an aetion in the premise*, which moy be beyond recal or remedy. Negotiations. are, said to be going ou; but b?twf< n what agents? 1 Wis are t<*ld that Judge John A. Campbe'l, o the Di.-tiiot. Court, ami vu assistant secre? tary of one of ll^e Government depart .lUent?, bas ' been left by tho President ni Richmond to* conduct negotiations-o ra?bei see what can be done. This repon is nn? fficial. . It may be true or not; it. i quite probable. In ?hat degree does* tb i p'rocr ecii g trt-H tho sanction of Congress How f?r is Ci'tipeis pr ? v-y lo it, and wi ia " erv. tie quai ti?-?, as a .statesman, whb'l j :l?;e Campbell , possesses for tho woik' ile baa considerable reputation as a law \ er, bul lawyers ru rely make good staler men. His n.b d i? logical and ecvnsibh .nile i? shrewd lather than profound; wvi trj-iit- vou ri goori disquisition np ni a judi?is ai bject, arid maintain a respectable pos "l?en lit a'controversy; Buthehflsaeq'mre IX? rtpiitjith ?) as a diplomatie?'-bas 1 arl ti experience in the pi?viucc, r.nd ve e3?vnt instance. Put tl {-Tili.bir.tj istbat be acta under instru? tipjji-fct' Proidri^[Davis. Wtat an- li ase iriBtroctiona? To gi? 4 |f?em ifs" nn;**r?na,W,^u^,?, ^uT^saTfffc ^President must have reached a-result io his own mind, winch is decisive as to our situ? ation. He must Lave settled, tho question, j first, as to our capacity to carry on the war; j ns to thc policy of doing so or not; ns to I tho exigencies which make it necessary to I sectfre ie ace; ss to the resources which, wc still r^^sesf, by. which to command such t?rros'as'shall consist with honor and saTetyl arrd oppecially'to sntisjfy the people of these Confederate Suites, ; Unluckily, the status of the, people is not ot a sort to command much consideration, except*When votes ar? .vant^uajLa popular election. They exacl na responsibilities, and few officials care tc > V. i 3 I dyfir'flicir ^public performances to theil judgment.^,,. ... ' ^ Bbit thdre ?3 Congress-thc*press. Well where ii Congress-^-where the press? Th? formet*,' b^'rJoubt; possesses sources of infor (nation which the press does not. - Th iction cannot;beide!?ycd till press and pee plo get the information.. A people may I Uisi in thc*? delay. The Congi ess is n< .V he ie at pissen*. Ibo Se* ate, which .ippoiutcd to sanction fiction of tl President, or not, in all matters of negotii ?lion, sud which should advise* with bin i docs not ap| ear in posipou nt his ?ar. ?Ju^gc Campboll to assume air. the'respoi isibiliiy? 3?" his judgrntnt to decjide tl ? momentous qrestion? i The primary questions aro, briefly-a I we a conquered pcoplfc! Is ?it no long? j posible tu oje?se resistance to thc i ! ?advi ? This is the firstand tho^t importai I question. With thc capacity?etill,to bril into the field rm ai my or arrases of o00,0( fighting men,-are we to submit sud pg ' under- fha yoke-a^e-we tobe stibjugatt - forced back into a union wit,** a peojj whom we h ??he - under a despotiein whi< W-'? hate, and n Inch strips of all prest possessions, anil all future hope? Shall v sir.k to tbts cot'd'lion of vassalage, a stria; lu vassals, and at the *ptb,ii g and p: vii>ione." 3. In the p?ese! t t otb* li-lion the cotildir .. lt tu .tint.- \?>? ?.< i *fld - in the *> lt*jdwii??*>i in* ttfkfbf th?- j pit; in the li?k?n >pii'us ol our iK.Juie - i. .sj j\ t?VMStitfi >m-v' J * li .Innfce^^kiJ^ in she blinc ^eupidiiy of thousands more; and in i he iv. signatiou. of all to a fate against wfaicl Mbej have no longer courge to contend then, Indeed, you may drop- the weapon and betake yourselves to your k/ices v. ill al! possible despatch." The negotiations will take their characio from the morale of the country at its pre sect juncture. It is_bigbly important nay, vitW-^to any successful negotiation that this morale should be fortified by pro pea argument, by a just survey of thc pre rnisesj bf tho prospect?, of our own re scmrces,-as at present "left to us: as to tl^ numbera we can still bring into tho fiele as to the fields in which ve may find cove during a protracted struggle, where tb fabian warfare shall supersede that mock cry of'the Napoleonic, which has boen ll curse of our late campaigning. lu th survey, we shall need to inquire into tl condition of our enemy; his embair?:; mente-; into bis relations wirb other State and why we should lold off from any n gotiation which, in premising us peace oui denies the recognition of our indepc de-ice. All these a?e subjects, with mac mere, needing the profoundest statestna ship-to consider and weigh. Mere politics; cunning rarely achieves*?nj thing in LC^ nation. Wu need in the statesman philosopher-one wiso does t ot reject .. man nature, and all ils instincts, as an.oi fhe essential .elements of his subject. Judge Campbell tho man for this-? L alone,^p has he associator? And, i: who are ihej? Thc people, ii Lhere bo a pc. ple, should insist unon Eccr^lie-s rr, stales*aiansli:p when their hbcili^ ?io stake. They may need" to take tho mut into'tbeir own hands. They should nu. no vital sacrifices. We would yield ::i thing to secure pe'ace to-the.-cou nt rv, s: our honor, arid those* inherent righus a: piTTileger-, deprived of which, as a peu* we should beweise than bondmen. .'m-. - Wc ure iniei med thal Ti enduit I>avu> ^ I v??r*d a-very cheering speech in Charlot!.-, I Wedm-sdny evening lust, in which he t'a ! that ?lu- surrender vi Gen, Lt-e. did not "\T j nut" the innij oi Northern Virginia, and : I in six w'eeki al*, would be rgli! nguiu. He : I hil tnftttcd llinl France lied deiei rained en nt. j int? rvrulioii. It is c?ire?try i*|w*ried that a French ? luis passed u;> ll??- Klkvisitippi li? ??ew i"!i> . liH.vilig i;ui.lwVhitt-?l lite Y auk te Seel Al i. ?mil ot' the nV?% Pith il< IP l>?.\tt>ubII.-. J\, C. L . ?. ? - . -