Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-11-18
NOV NEMI,BER ls, 1861.
Follow it up--AIake south Carolina
the Seat OF War. ;sFgiioi

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Already the Charleston NeraJy sees
what we know every Northern man feels,
and what we believe the government has
determined on-that the war must be
fought ON the cotton fields OF South Caro-
lima. The wall of the AeresfFy betrays the
fear with which the traitors ofthe Palmet-
to State see their dearest hopes of safety
broken. Even now it is not ashamed to
own with what criminal plans its friends
proposed to shield themselves and their
property at the expense of other States
from war they frsE provoked. eve
have forseen," it says in an article which
we reprinted yesterday, "and have depre-
Gated the wretched policy which has induc-
ed the invasion of the State. We have
wished that it could have been otherwise,
and that the redemption of Maryland and
the protection of South Carolina had been
accomplished by lighting on tho banks of
the Potomoe.h .+55 s,5.4
These selfish aristoerats conspiTe mot on
" against the Union, bpt against their fell
low slavehSfde9S o other SoRthern States.
They were eager to begin the war, but
more eager to keep it out OF their borders,
They cared not who suffered in Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mis-
sourio or Louisiana, SO long as South Car
lima was secure from injury.
South Carolina is the true field of this
war; and if the government understands
theIsplrit of the nation il will spare no
pains to make it this. 1t is not difficult to
do so. We can send ten thousand troops
to Port Royal in sixty hours by water, but
with the railroad Communications they have,
and with all their force gathered on the
northern border, the insurgents cannot
transport the same number under tendays.
We can send munitionso of provisions down
by the dozen shiploads in three days,
while they cannot transport the same guam
titles in three weeks. We can count on
the faithful aid of the black men of the
State, who outnumber the aristocratie
white traitors by more thou third, while
they can count only on the hatred with
which a slave turns upon task master.
We have every advantage and they have
every disadvantage to encounter there; and
when our armies, leaving the RUNS of
Charleston behind them, penetrate through
South Carolina into Northern Georgia,
they wilNhavc reached the strutegical heart
of the rebellion, and lave only to effect
communications with General Buel's ar
my, which will by that time have pene-
trated through Eastern Tennessee, in or
der to make an end of the insurrection.-
When General Buel's force meets General
Shermau's or General Burnside's ut ATTAIN
tn, the power OF the insurgents is virtual
ly dead.
Let it be fairly understood that the des-
tinatton of our best regiments is South
Carolina, aud every regiment will strive to
be the best. Let the government call for
volunteers for the Palmetto State, and it
will get them faster than they can be sent
on. The nation is tired of the boasts ol
these superRne gentlemen; tits determined
to root out the nest of vipers, who were
too long hugged to tue kindly breast of the
! Union. We cannot bore q hole through
South Car5lind and sink her; but Justice
to the outraged laws, to the Isulted name
of the Union, to the shades of those brave
men who have fallen already in the contest
| demands that her aristocrats shalt be taugh
n lesson which will make them-what they
must be hereafter, if We expect Pence-the
humblest and best whipped traitors that gc
unhung.