Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-07-18

ahoat In all the papers Of tue land about
any outrageS committed by Union troops,
/ or any drunkenness or sickness among
them, any indispOsition TO serve for three
years, any symton Of characterization,
any incident Of the III treatment OF per.
sons or the destruction Of property Ia the
path of our armies-anything that can by
any possibility be used'to arouse prelude
ces or apprehensions-all these things are
found assorted with the artEulness Of an
idiot stringiug It's gewgaws, and labeled
with head lines indicating zest Of ap-
probation and eagerness in appropriation,
| equal TO that Of naturalist preparing and
classifying cabinet Of curious things
The correspondence Of the paper reeks
With select impurity, That which the ed
itorS dare not say, q correspondent nsiuu-
atesa all Its correspondents seem incea.
Han;ly beleviled TO make out case Of
oppression, extortion. violencel fraud
or tyranny Sgainst the Government
II there Is q rnmor aaoat Of disas.
ter happening our troops, look for
Il full spread with all the sensation.
al exaggcrntions in tue Enquircr.--
When Gen. Scott gives orders to stop tele.
graphic dispatches giving notice OF move
meuts 10 be made, the Enquirer notices the
fact with snarl and snap, rs though 1t
felt great pain at being unable TO give the
enemy information. There IL trouble at
Cairo about the three years enlistment of
three months troops; and the Eaquirer's
correspondent at that place gloats over 1t.
The Government takes measures ut Balti-
more 10 suppress rebellion there, and ar
rests some Of the more notorious Of the
traitors. The Enquirer roSrs about the
horrors Of military despotism. Tho COM
manding officer OF the fort that nails Bal
timOre TO the Union refuses TO permit the
courts to release the traitors be has Gagged,
and to steal away men Of bis garrison.
TIE President don't yield to the noise Of
the Baltimore secessionists; and the Engui-
rer is in chronic condition Of i'll temper,
moral debility and intellectual impotancy
about Executive uSurpations." The Uni
ted States authorities are not permitted to
provision Major Anderson's command ia
Fort Sumter; South CAROLINA, in accord
auce With the advice Of Roger A. Pryor,
strikes blow TO KNOCK old Virginia out
ofthe Union; the Confederate Secretary Of
War proclainS that the rebel flag shall tly
from the dome OF tue National Capitol;
President Lincoln calls for three months
volunteers to defend Washington aud re-
take the property Of which the Cuited
States Government had been robbed
and seeing there was m absolute neces-
sity TO 60 down under the food OF Reyolu-
ton or meet tho popular demand calling
for troops for the war, he calls them;-
aud the Enquirer is 10 commissions Of rage
because lie has taken the only means Of
preserving the Government and prevent
ing the spread Of terrible connections
and, perhaps, actual hostilities, through
out the country. The President only res.
ponded to the universal appeal of the loyal
people, knowing that Congress would res.
pond to the same appeal. Il would have
been in the blacklist degree criminal, COW.
ardly Hnd traitorous in him TO have done
otherwise
What can be the effect Of this display
Of the sympathy felt by Northern poIti-
clans for Southern traitors? Clearly, SO tar
rs ii il effective, it must prOtract, emhitter
and enlarge the war. Tue cOwardly cry
for an ignominious peace that is now heard
means only more blood and wider spread
deso!ntiOn.
The politicians whose lips are utteriug,
and whose pens are dripping treason, will
only deceive the South most cruelty, II