Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-02

power to displace them and supply their
places with others, by the most peaceable,
and yet the most irresistible process. a
process that need not produce ripple on
the surface of the business of the country.
costs neither blood nor treasure, and yetis
more irresistible than fleets and armies.
THIS leads US to notice the Nervousness OF
the crimes of treason and rebellion
Treason is defined to be the highest
crime of a civil nature of which man can
be guilty-an attempt to overthrow the
Government of the State TO which the Of
fender owes allegiance, or OF betraying the
State into the hands of foreign power
Rebellion is an open and avowed renuncia-
ton of the authority of the government to
which the person owes allegiance, or the
taking up arms traitorously to resist the
authority of lawful government.
According to this definition, and it is
the only correct one, no good man can re-
bel against the lawful authority of his
country; and if he has been in an evil
hour, and by evil councils, misled, he will
return to his allegiance as sosu as the
moral terpitude Of his crime is fully set
before him. Treason and rebellion are not
only crimes of the deepest dye in them
selves, but they Invariably lead 10 the
commission of almost every other crime,
theft, robbery, licentjousness, falsehood
and murder
All these crimes have been connected
with the present rebellion from its first
inception down to the present time 1t
commenced in the basest deception and
perjury, and eliminated in open baretaced
robbery and murder, and these are its
legitimate fruits still. 4 Mr.. West, a resi-
dent of Montgomery, Alabama, who fled
Tr, fI,rr, = Al.
of the Louisiana Zouaves, who arrived
there on Il Sunday morning on their way
to Richmond: Their conduct was so in
tcrnal that the ladies were afraid to 60 to
church. \ number of houses were broken
open and robbed in daylight. Every afro
city charged by BeaIregard. in his Virginia
proclamation, upon the Northern troops
was committed by the Zouaves of Louisi-
ana. Whenever they found negro women
they proceeded to use them violently, and
there were scenes in the streets Os Mont
gomery, in sight of the house of the Con-
federate President. that Sunday morning,
unheard of heretofore, except where cities
have been stormed and sacked by a drunken
and liceutious soldiery."
Revoltinga as thisis, tits fully corroborated
and more deeply coIored by a statement in
Il letter written from Vicksburg by Mr.
ltuSSSiI5 tue COIItS pOEleuI Oh Llt LOnuOIt
Times. Mr.. Russell says:
Next day being Sunday, I remained at
rest in the house of fciend, listening to
stories bloodred: How such n man shot
another aud was afterward stabbed by II
hunted down, in broad daylight and
murdered one obnoxious to them-tale
after tale, such rs have heard, through
the South and seen daily narrations
of in the papers. Aceldama! No security
for life. y man is in imminent danger
were.it only from stray bullets, when he
turns corner. The bar, the drink, the
savage practice of walking about with
pistol and poinard ungovernable passions
-ungovernable because there is no law to
punish the deeds to which they lead-thcse
are the cause OF acts which would not be
tolerated in the worst days of Corsican
rsadette, and which must be put down, or
the countries in which they are unpuuisheI
will become as barbarous as JungIcs Of
wild beasts"
To show that the spirit of fenIish saw
agism is not confined to any particular To-
cality in the South, but is the common
spirit by which sccessionists and traitors
are actuated, l shall add the testimony o!
our own venerable DR.. C. Elliott, editor Of
the Central Christian -1drocatc, St Louis,
Missouri. 1hc Doctor says:
'.it is now Il settled judgement with US
here, that secession, alias rebellion, or
treason to the best government in the
world, has Il moral maIIgutty i'll it that no
one can be adequately aware of unless he
is Il personal witness of it, by living in its
midst. The common bloody murders oc-
casionally occurring, are inaocent com
pared to the acts of the rebel leaders
The newspapers cannot describe the moral
abyss of their more than Judiac treachery.
1t must be seen in its acts, heard in its
moral blasphcmies, aud felt in its diabolic
cruelty, in order to be known as it is"
In a letter now before me- received from
Il lady belonging to one of the first E,rni-
lies in Trenton, New Jersey, who has three
brothers, officers in the army at Washing
ton City, she says that after the battle
near Manassas of her brothers paid
his friends visit, in company with anoth-
er soldier, and that they cOrrobOrated the
Published statements of the cruelties prac-
ticed by the rebels towards those who fell
into their hands on that Inflated field.
They reported that they saw wounded
soldier with his ears cut Off, and that
others were bayOnetted while crying for
quarter. Such is both the cause and the
effect of the present treason and rebellion.
No man can engage in it, sympathy:
with it, or IN any way aid or abet it, with
out becoming an enemy to God and man.
You might as well talk about an homes
thief, or a holy devil, as pious Godfcarins.
traitor; the thing is prcposterous.
We need not go abroad for evidence o
the malignity of secession, our own West
ern Virginia furnishes abundnnt proof
Union men are hunted like wild beasts b,
their own neighhors, and hung, aud sho,
from behind trees, and the brave men whr
come to protect them, are shot down from
under cover. And nothing but cowardic,
on the part OF the traitors here, prevent.