150 years ago there were more and more indications that at least a good chunk of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was heading north of Mason-Dixon. A Democrat newspaper apparently thought it would be a good idea to postpone any peace meetings that might be convened while the rebels were attacking the Union
From The New-York Times June 15, 1863:
A Peace Meeting in Brooklyn.
A few of the followers of FERNANDO and BEN WOOD are trying hard to get up a “peace meeting” in Brooklyn, after the manner of the one held in New-York, but the organ of the Democracy — the Eagle — throws cold water on the enterprise, and thinks, in view of the prospective rebel raid into the Northern States, they had better postpone it for the presents. The Eagle thinks that, in case the rebels should march, through Pennsylvania to Buffalo, as they propose, if would not look well, while they are waging war in one end of the State, for the Democrats at the other end to hold a peace meeting at Fort Green.
THE PEACE-PREACHER AND HIS CLERK.
REV. FERNANDO WOOD. “Peace on Earth, and Good-Will to Rebels.”
MUSCULAR DISCIPLES. “That’s so-o-o!” (Chorus of Oaths.)
The cartoon was published in the June 20, 1863 issue of Harper’s Weekly hosted at Son of the South
