Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-05-30
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Eds. EntelEgsnetr.-There is nothing
here but war! warIi war!ll Allthut the
people think of is war; and all that they
talk of is war and all that they sing of is
war. You will believe me when tell
you that ten regiments of soldiers (alrnost
as large an army us Wheeling could raise
ifthe men, women nn,l children sh ould all
turn out) have been raised in this city and
sent away; and yet We do not miss thcm.-
One has hardly deperted ere an other rises
in its place. To-day one of the finest, if
not the finest, regiments in the State APP
pcared on parade. II is intended, believe,
for the hOmc-guard. Like Jonuh's gourd
it sprang mp in night, but like Jonah's
gourd, it will not perish ina day. They
are NIL large, fine looking men. All dress.
ed in gray suit, purchased at their own
expense, ami of much better material than
the dress of ordinary soldiers. They nrp
NIL, think, men OF wealth. Thousands,
Ses teiEs of thousands, of people were
gathered on the sidewalks and in the
houses to w:tncss the parade. Chestnut
street WINS II perfect jam Siuny n henrtin
that multitude, as they wenLled their way
home, felt that their lives and their liber-
ties were secure with such men to defend
them.
Understand thatn company is soon to
leave this city for Wheeling. If SO, sue
ness go with them. fear that if they 60
they will soon be called into active service.
THIS war feeling of which spoke has ex-
tended itself TO the clergy. DR.. Spring, Of
New York, and member of the General
i AEgan,kt,. nF ba
convened in this city, offered a series of
resolutions, to the effect that the General
AssemblytIa Iaould set apart the 4th of July
hs q day of fasting and prayer for the
! President of the United States. This. has
met with strong opposition from the Sou
thern members, and also from many from
the North. The Southern ministers stale
that even it they were willing to pray for
the Government, they would not be per-
mitied TO do Su. That their congregations
would string thcm up to the nearest tree,
ii they attempted it. They argue that il
DR.. Springs resolutions pass, the unity of
the church will be, broken. They say that
The MethOdists aud Bhptists separated, be-
cNnse of the Introduction of slavery aud
other political topics into the chnrch, and
that the Presbyterian church hnd hitherto,
and should now avoid the rock on which
they split, be still bond of union between
the North aud the South. They have tele-
graphed to the members of the Cabinet ut
Washington, for advice, who have COUNSEL
led them, by NIL means. 10 preserve un-
broken the unity OF the Church. But
| there are 81 few in the assembly with strong
abolition proclivitics, who have been for
years strenuously lnboring to have those
ministers who believed in the rights of
slavery excluded from the Church. These,
together with II certain class of preachers
that always succumb to the will of the
people, will probably be in the nsrcndency;
and, i'll SO. H church that was born and has
grown with this Government, that has
had a greater mud better influence in the
formation of its. institutions, than any 9th.
or sect or body of men in this country.
will be sundered. God grant that it may
not he so. Yours, B. E.