Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-19
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A ReRrIng and Rip-TeRrIng Article
with . Good Deaf OF SenAe I'm. H,
[Prom the cIncinnati oommercIall :
The Government must now, do one Of
two things-make peace or war. We see
no hope ofNn honorable peace butthtough
n successful war, and therefore areiu favor
of pressing the war. But there is one
thing of which we are tired the main
tenance of an enormous military force for
the benefit of the contractors. It seems
impossible to overcome the inertia of our
0rmieg. There is 40 endsot regiments
marching across the Ohio, and the Missis-
sippi, and the Potomac, and descending
upon;the Southern coast, and we hardly
hear of them after they march or sail, ex.
.cept inTreViewsr rreconn0isances, and hos
ipital lists, There seems to be mighty
Dead Sea into which we are pouring our
resonTUes5tU be5lost in everlasting stagnn-
-tion. lfsweYcnn't-do better than this, we
ought to quit. five are nation of i'm
beetles, towards, and speculating scoun-
ldrels, insensible to honor, without a drop
of hcro.blood IN our veins, and ns incapa-
bic OF fighting as the Chinese, let US cease
pretending to ben great peoPlennd snbside
10 the psaceiof dngradHtion that el"i'ps u.s..
Perhaps IL we nre nottitdto he good citi-
zens we can make good serfs. There are
plentyiOf persons ready to stand lto7us in
the reIati0nsof mhsIeTs! Thec0ttonl lords
of Alabama and Of Lancashire would have
no objection ITO ruling overfus. The one
has black niggerssto rdissi cotton and the
other white niggers to spinit, NYe have no
ntggers aud are therefore poor devils!
z Gen. McClellan hns lind pleaiy Of atiitie
since the 22d of July, When'he was called
to Washington, to organize the army, and
prepare tito do something. He has had
time enough siRce Gen. Scott was SO grace
fully shipped to EarOpef TO mature dis
plans for offensive movements. Nov the
people desire him to do something, or to
abate all professions. Ifthereis anything
Nwful4nd imysteriOusi matter withus
that weFnre5 of no account, please inform
us. We have been told thtt everything is
going on right so frequently, TINT we don't
believe it; aud it is hard to believe that
therein anything whiohls not all wrong.
There is something and somebody wrong
and stupid at Wastiington. ls'ts Cen Nc.
Clellau, or the Oongressi or tue Cabinet, or
the PreSidenu2 So far ASHehre concerned,
we huye treated Gen! Mcclellan with the
highest reconsideration. We are notiuclined
now to charge the, blame. for the tutilite stlls
pidity.wbicl ispTel0minant is upOtphtnl! Bat
be tnust{kno@l that ihisLlme Of probation
has expired. must go bnck to The world,
or be admitted TO full comhsGnt We must
have deeds henceforth. We cannot wait for
ANY moretinkering, eitlIerin reviews 'orar-
tillery practice or Reconnaissance The
army of the Potomac aud the army of the
Ohio mustsmove and must light, or the
country rs irretrieV1bly ruined. IL Will
be impOssibleit0 maintain tue credit OF the
government through tic winter, with
Washington for the Ipungtng plhce OF our
great army. Tie peOpls will not mhtii;tiin
The monster, if II devours everything aud
does nothing. they dnn't ewhnt tesnch an
elephnnt. The Secretary OF War talks OF
seven hundred Thousand men in the Geld,
What nrv they doing? The SecreIrry
should have been engaged thinking on
that point when writing the tailtof his re-
mort, which was soSetFectIally driven up
by tha President, with hismodifYing maui.
The Secretary boasts of the jprodigions
power we exhibit in placing vast army
in the field. Thea1rnthy Il, thus far our
,hoastedcnumbers have only advertised our
incnnacity. They have not 7bren strength
but weakness 10 ius, The Ghinvse ind
hHindoos cnnl heat us ininumberss and we
have not heardfthe e5Asiaticip0wers ranked
among the,great onespf the globe. What
have We done. aside from the Port Royal
bonlbardment. to show that twe are moro
entitled 20 tue respect of the military mon
arches Of Europe than the Asiattesf
How long will it take the. e.swaFm OF third
rate demagogues and second rate fanatics
in Congress, 10 learn that the passage of a
few resolutions willnotend the war2 The
whole batch of resolutions before Congsess
on The slavery question are not worth the
paper they were, written upon and yet
there are persons who think the war could
be ended by a vote of Congress decldriug
the emancipation of slaves. IHtat zoe gam
Is not CoHgresstoaa HterUentioH, but military
ACTIVITY. It is bald nonsense 70 talk OF
freeing the slaTes, until we have ~ 1sast
broken the iron crust of the ConfedeE4te
contraband blackberry pie. Where krs
the negroes gentlemen propose to treeEI
Behind the bristliug armies of the Conted-
crates. Hadn't the armies better be whip
ned before We emancipate the negroes ~
According to the coufiscatton law already
in force Tor, more correctly speaking all
ready on, our statute books, more than
one hundred thousand negroes should he
liberated. We refer to those directly EN-;
bloyed in military operations Why should
we.be in haste 10 set free on paper q few
millions, befOreiWe dispose OF those te9a,
sands nlreRdyeoudscatsd by law 6us held
by force2 If Congress would indulge IL
self ina little IcommpnIsense business once
IA a while, and omit its perpetual blAther
for Buncomb, it might do something to help
the nation out of its difficulty.
Wheneyes there is something OF lmpa-
kepee expressed at the attitude of the ar
I6y-a secessionist or contraGtor-a. traitor
at heart or thief ia practtceS as The case
nav be-remind s the popderous public that
theory D 4sBolls ardsto Ri Cd % oudr fols
loved by the Bull Run retreat! That 2ex-
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