Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-03-26


there in addition 10 the news yesterday
morning. The telegraph informs us that
Banks was to attack the rebels at Stras-
burg YESTERDAY, aud it is almost certain
that he dad 50. Intelligence, believed to
be authentic, was received in the city yes
terday, to the effect that another battle
was raging somewhere in the region of
Winchester 1t was without doubt at
Strasburg. The telegraph may yet bring
something in regard 10 it before going to
press.
JrpGiSG from the tenor of all the news
from those parts of Tennessee which are
IN our possession, the restoration OF loyal
feeling in the seeded States, even after
hey are occupied by our troops, will not
be ys4y rapid. Those who describe the
state OF public feeling at Nashville, where
"e may reasonably suppose hostility to
the government would be as mild as in al
most any of the southern cities, state that
they are puzzled to know what to say of
it. So powerfully did the mania for Sc
cessiou rage, when it was once in the
ascendant, that it seems to have infected
more or less even the men who stood out
against it until resistance was hopeless
wheG they did surrender. to its power
many of them appear TO have come as alb
soIuteIy under its control as the most VIC
lent of the original leaders. They speak
now of their opposition to it, aud some OF
them talk of acquiesctng willingly in the
new order of things. But very few show
any enthusiasm for the Union.
Vow, all this is qaite in accordance with
the ordinary course of human nature.
The analogy between this infaluation and
disease IS not At all fAucifuI. 1t is only
by slow degrees, possibly with some re.
lapses, that the recovery will be male.
What is TO be done in the meantime {?
Clearly we must hold the States with the
strong hand OF power until the people can
be relied on TO administer affairs 10 ac-
eordauee with the spirit of orr govern
ruent- The work to he accomplished re-
quirss great frmness aud discretion
While great number of the citizens may
be disposed to loyalty, the artful and de-
termiued secessionists, who will continue
to hate Us, will still have great influence,
and if not watched and guarded against,
Mag. work Infinite mischief 1t will re-
quire no ordinary degree of Judgment and
wisdom to know just how rapidly to loosen
the hand Of military power and when TO
trust implicitly to the people themselves.
We tear that our ruiera may be tempted
20 err on the side of excessive lenienev.
rather than on the side of severity. For
there is something SO repuguant 70 all our
ideas Of government in holding a State
under military rule, We are by all our in
stiuets habits aud traditions so inclined
70 seeord the largest liberty consistent
With safety TO the Individual, to munich
PAli;ies, and 20 States, that there viii be
constant pressure on the government 70
dispense with measures of rieor. Polite.
iAas, TOO, anxious to secure some help from
the South, will raise the cry of persecution
and eiamor for mild rale, and for a pre-
nature restoration Of the States TO their
Of their ancient rights. But We van. 10
old privileges. We are as DESTROYS as auy
one can be of seeing ;hemin the enjoyment
De sure they viii not abnse them as they
have done We do not wish 70 see anoth.
eFVar rendered necessary by any mistake
in the manner Of ending this one. The
government must hold Rthe reins With
arm hand for many months 10 some parts
of the South, even il its military success
is complete aud speedy. We must make
Up our nipds to maiatain pretty. large an
my for some time 70 come. The ripRleSd.
ers We m ust place where there is no posi-
bility of their ever doing harm.