By what means has the war ended? I will tell you. While the votaries advocates <​devotees​> of misrule <​mobocracy​> & destruction having have been sounding the war whoop— throughout all our count borders, & in the very heart of our , threatning us with utter extermination from the face of the earth, if we did not give up the prophet of the most high god, that they might wash themselves in his blood.— Our have <​left their all​> gone forth by hundreds through <​out​> the length & breadth of the land.— Cry<​ing​> peace, peace, & & are blowing <​Sounding—​> the Trump of free <​Freedom​> <​&​> salvation <​long & loud, & are Bearing lofting the ensign of Liberty high towards heaven​> to all who will Enlist under the <​broad​> banners of the prince of peace, & are showing by their testimony & the Constitution of our union <​the ​> & our <​own​> , & our <​city​> charter— that we are an innocent unoffending people, & the last on earth to stretch forth the arm of war even in our own defe[n]ce; & <​that​> have failed to do it even when the laws of God & man would have sustained us in so doing— <​Those are the means, the war is ended​> whether our enemies have been ashamed (if shame yet remains our <​their​> lot) to fall on our women & children in their defenceless state, or whether they have been overawed by the honorable part of community, <​who have been​> influenced by the inteligence which has thus been spred abroad, I leave on bothe united I leave your <​wisdom​> to determine.—

We desire to go no farther West at present, neither shall we unless compelled. We wish to live among within reach of our fellow men— as long as [p. [2]]