Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-16

worthy of our birthrigh:- Let US take the
challenge AZ the hand of Providence, and
at whatever cost, do our sacred duty.
With the present. Distribution of forces,
nothing is more evident than that we have
NOT the power to extinguish the rebellion;
The CONSUMPTION has placed the entire
South under arms, and an additional 300,-
600 men, more or less, are absolutely nee
essary to accomplish the work we have
| undertaken. They must be had, orwe may
ms we'll give up the job at once, land save
/ further loss of life. But we are not to give,
l it up :; aud cursed be any American who
| dreams of such thing, The war is to go
\ on. The armies ofrebelIion are TO be bea-
Item and annihiIated. The South is to be
tsubjugated, and nothing less than this ) and
the power of the sham Contederacy which
has proved itself 10 be tenacious as despeT-5
alton, must be utterly destroyed by force.
! We say this, irrespective of any form which
| the future of the South may possibly take
/ The seeding States must remain parts OF
| the United States-if willing members If
unwilling, none the less certainly. No
Slave Confederacy, with foreign alliances
and all the possibilities and probabilities
4 oil. foreign wars, undertaken TO destroy the
very name of Repnblicanism in Americar
/ can be allowedto be carved from our free
! domain. No foreign power shall be allow
ed TO hold the mouth of the Mississippi
1 River, and dictate to the great and Free
j Northwest, which holds its sources and
/ tributaries, the terms-of commerce. The
j matter of separation is a thing impossible
/ 10 be considered, without taking into the
calculation national aunihilation.
No, the war must 90 on; aud 1t must GO
on by volunteering, and not by drafting, if
we would carry with it an inTincible moral
/ mower. AlloYer these Northern states the
Young men should rush to arms, aud they
| should be supported by those who have
/ wealth, and those whose years and circum-
I stances tie them to their homes. We have
been prosperous through all this war, thus
4 far, and now, when the time of sacrifice
has come, let US prove ourselves TO be
worthy OF the place we are called upon 10
4 I'LL There is nothing like the position OF
the North at this Juncture, 10 all the world,
and nothing like it in all previous Amert-
can history. The whole world is looking
at MS. Posterity. for hundreds of years,
/ will look back upon US, and be ashamed or
proud of our action. God has put the de-
cision of a grand, vital question into our
Il own tand, and He is locking upon US to see
j whether we are worthy OF our possibilities.
4 The forces In rebellion are looking at us,
and, as We act-one way or the other
will their hearts be filed with exultation
or despair.
We owe it to the brave men who have
done the pioneer work in this business-to
those who have watched and fought aud
bled-who have iorssken home and all its
delights for the held-to those especially
). who have sacrificed their lives-to see toit
that what they have done shall not prove to
have been in vain. lind tge shall pay rrhGt
Ios oue. We have never lost our faith in
1.-THE American people, nor have we lost our
faith in the government, Oar soldiers,
we believe, will be raised without the resort
to drafting. There will be enough Of them
for all the work we have to do. The tide
of patriotism and of patriotic determine
ton is evidently rising, and will soon SWEEP
, in, in waves as grand as they are resistless
The men of the good old Bay State are in
earnest, and we trust to hear that she i.
! the 6rst State to ill her quota. Ali the
Z old State that bore US must not falter now!
Let her place in history be best ami high,
est, and her agency in the salvation of tht
republic that which shall fill all her child.
rcu with grateful pride.