Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-06-25

sIore nInsIsed nat1eries.

Oar armies have twice, within the course
of Il few weeks, suffered severely from the
ambuscadcs which the enemy has prepared
for them, and into which we have incan-
tiOusiy entered. But a more tremendous
trap than that ut Great Bethel or at Wien
ma has been devised for US, and Is even
now being silently equipped aud manned
We refer to those sshemeS of compromise
with the sccessiouists which are to be
sprsng upon Congress at the special ses-
sio in July.
Mr.. Grittenden, who has just been rlr,;-
ed from Kentucky, announces his deter
minatioa to make some motion for bring
inS the war 10 an end. He Will be sus-
tanned by other Southern members, and
by some, we fear, from the Northern
States. Already : convention of editors
is called in this State, to agree upon
plan, it is said, for bringing popular opin-
ion up TO the designs of the leaders, aud
not few hints are given out in private
conversation, to the effect that the war has
gone far enough. y part of the scheme
embraces the capitalists of the cities, who
are to be persuaded not to lend their mou-
ey to the government for the prosecution
of hoSliliiies, or to lend it only at such
rates of interest rs Will discourage the
government in its attempts to maintain the
federal ascendancy.
This scheme is nothing more than n
masked battery of Jefferson Davis. He
has been thoroughly disappointed in his
projects. Supposing that large party at
the North would side with him in his in
famous designs, he really persuaded him
self that it would be anea$y thing to march
on to Washington, seize the public Offices
and archives, and inaugnrate new ad-
ministratOn. But the noble and unani-
nous uprising of the free States put an
end to his vain and ridiculous hopes. He
found that the wicked war he had begun
was to he II war in earnest. lie saw that
the people of the North were not only uni-
ted III their resolves to preserve the Union,
bnt that they brought to the contest Il vast
superiority of wealth, numbers, determine
ton and endurance. Instead of being in
the possession of the capiti,l he can scarce
iy hold the securest military positions by
his talt-fed, ILL clad and discouteuted forces.
His ports are blockaded, his supplies are
cut of, the border States do not follow mis-
lead, and quarter of million of men
threaten all his posts.
In short, Davis is in hopeless predIca-
ment. A grand success in battle might
imPart some degree of vitality to his cause
for short time, bnt the end is as certain
as the setting of the sun tonight he and
his followers must be scattered likeschaff
before the wind; if not this summer, then
in the autumu- He peEcefves his diletdllsi,
and aflroitIy contriSes a way to escape. IL
is to divide fhe North by a Weli-planned
str1tagerl- Knowing the love of peace
which pervades the hearts of northern men,
he hopes, by throwing into Congress some
scheme of compromise, TO divert attention
from the vigorous prosecution of the war,
and in the end to raise a party of peace
even in the midst of our camps.
We do not believe that the project will
succeed. Our people, who have deliber-
ately gone into the contest, viii not re1in-
qUish it until the ends for whjeh it was
undertaken have been fully attaiaed. We
did not assume the dread alternative Of
battle as Guilds play. 1t was not to US q
mere move in a great game of politics and
intrigue We have not sent two hundred
thousand men from their homes to perish
of exposure and disease on FOOLS errand;
We have nat raised millions of money, aud
sacrificed many millions more in trade
for nothing We have been earnest in our
parDose to vindieate great principles, and
those principles will be vildicated, come
what may Mr.. CrittenGen and his small
knot of adherehts may suggest what com
promise they please, but until the suprenl-
Acy of the Federal Government is recog-
Hizeh from the Potomac to the Rio Grandp,
until The Stars and Stripes float again from
every fortress within our boundaries, until
the armies OF rebellion have laid down
their last musket and the leaders OF rebel
lion have paid the last penalty for fonient-
ing the most wanton and malignant crime
that our country eve- witnessed, the de-