Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-02
We publish this morning. judiciOusly


WE publish this morning, judiciousiy
cheering article from the Cincinnati Com
1a.1eial which shows, at least reasonably,
that In all likelihood the rebel army has
nassed the zenith of its enthusiasm, and
we the nadir of our depression, and that
both parties are rapidly changing places
we for the better, they for the worse. We
believe that Immediately after the disaster
at Bull Run, the nation touched lower
point of dependency than it will ever be
called again to reach. Expectation before
the battle was so high, the people were so
entirely unprepared for n repulse, the pam
ic was so disgraceful, the moral effect both
here and abroad was so dreaded, the grief
for our slain troops, cast such gloom
over the loyal States, that we over-estima-
led the real injGry done to our cause, and
we were more depressed than we should be
again by any similar reverse. 1t was
natural, therefore, that n reaction should
soon take place. Even the sad news from
Missouri could not overcome the elasticity
of our minds. 1t was not in human nat
lure L0aL ulGu MuO AGuCSSSN - "ASSAS $500
saw the vast resources which We have,
could long doubt that We should speedily
regain all that we had lost. The whole
course of events has tended to strengthen
our hopes.
1t was at once seen that the battle of
Bull Run was by no means an unmingled
misfortune, that, though stern teacher,
it had effectually taught us lessons which
are of the very highest Importance. 1t
showed us that an aggregation of armed
men is not an army, that organization and
discipline are necessary to make even
brave men effective on the field. 1t took
Gen. Mcclellan to the head of our forces
in the east, and the presence of this gallant
and gifted young officer, on all whose steps
victory had waited in Western Virginia,
sent thrill of enthusiasm through his
army and through the nation. He brought
to the half organized and respondent
bands about Washington not only enthu-
siasm, but that without which enthusi-
asm is of merely temporary benefit, dis
ciuliue. The army and the nation felt at
once, MS by a sort of electric impulse, that
he was .smaster of the situation The
spontaneous aud sudden confidence which
was universally reposed in him by people
who had never heard his name until few
weeks previous, has strengthened from day
10 day, while the conviction has been
strengthening, and apparently not without
reason, that the enemy are not as well
prepared for offensive operations as we
were inclined to believe n month ago.
If we may trust the Southern papers,
there is in the rebel army great want of
the means of transportation, and the CON-
missariat aud medical departments are
poorly organized. The Generals were alb
solutely unable to move their forces tor an
attack for some days after the battle of
Bull Run, and it appears pretty clear that
they canuot get through the winter with
out great suffering. According to their
own confession they lack for blankets,
shoes, salt, powder and lead, among other
things. Moreover, they are probably now
Mt their maximum strength. We do not
believe that larger force will ever be on
foot in the South than there is at the pre-
sent time. But we have not called out
nearly all the men who are capable of
bearing arms. Our army will be for
months steadily increasing and steadily
improving in discipline and effectiveness.
We have the materials which an army
needs for its comfort. aud government has
the money to buy them. The South has
not many of the articles needed, has no
credit abroad, and if she buys them can
not get them into her blockaded ports
Every day we are stopping more closely
the rat-holes" along the coast, and ev.
cry day we are improving our position upon
the land. Why should we not then be
hopeful about the future?
1t only remains for us to prosecute the
war with a vigor becoming people who
are conteuding under so favorable auspices
for everything that makes property or life
valuable. Neither our government nor
our Generals can win for US success,
unless we, the people, sustain the govern
ment with all our might in its gigantic un-
dertaking. 1t has obtaiced money. 1t
must not now lack for men.
Aud while the loyal States from Maine to
California are responding to the call of
the country and furnishing regiments to
the average of four per day, what is
Western Virginia dOing2 Is she doing
even a part of what she ought to do?
She owes heavy debt of gratitude to the
loyal States for the aid they have and are
now aFOrdiug her. Will she repay it, in
the cheapest way in the world in which
people can discharge an obligation, Wis