Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-17
m From the New York Post.
A Word of Caution

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sta9. From the New York Post,
A Word of Caution.
1t has come to our turn to be invaded.
That which the rebels have suffered for a
year we are now threatened with. They
bore their difficulties like brave meu; aud
we doubt not our people will do the same.
The Consideration which seizes many per-
sons at the thought of a rebel raid in Penn
sylvapia and Ohio is natural. The same
kind of panic was spread over the South
when Du Poht took Port Royal, when Grant
took Fort Donelson, and when Farragut
captured New Orleans. Men shivered at
the thought of war in their own homes
but the softening dismay quickly crystal
ICES into steely determination IL they are
truly men and the rallying of the squirrel
hunters of the West to Cincinnati, and the
4 general rush 70 arms in Pennsylvania,
show that the right spirit is yet in the
country, ,,.5,f,,g ,stse .i.sIsF .,st
II Our people are to-day excited at the
| prospect which the Encouragement of our
\ military operations in the East and West
has opened to them. 1t is the duty of the
authorities, state and federal, TO put in
lforce such energetic measures as will at
once restore tranquility. This is the more
4 urgent, because naturally toe secret trait.
ors and agents of Davis In these states has
ten to use the present excitement for their
purposes, and do their utmost to increase
lit. These mischievons persons are quick
to seize upon circumstances which they
think may be turned to the advantage of
their friends and employers, the rebels
I Already, yesterday, that organ of all wick
edness and error, the New York Herald
suggested the first step towards the estah-
lishment Oh. a military dictatorship and the
overthrow of the Constitutional Govern
ment. 1t calls upon General Mcclellan
! "to insist upon the modification and re-
construction of the Cabinet" 1t tells him
tthat now isthe time for him to prove him
self not only great general, but states
man worthy of the occasion and OF the re-
sponsibility he has assumed" IL assures
him that "he is master of the situation !"
she is .he only man ia whom the troops or
| the country have confidence as a general
for the chief command of the army in the
feld;" and, promising him that "the game
4 is now in his hands, it urges him to "play
his best trump"-uot against the enemy,
understand, but against the Government.
Thus this sheet which bounded the
southern conspirators on to rebellion
which encouraged the seccssionists of the
South with hopes andpTomises ofNOrthern
Rcquiescence and support; which has since
the opening ofthe war constantly aided the
rebels, by magnifying their forces, their
preparations and their successes, now
Ipresses oil a General of the Union armies
to. assume dictatorial powers, and hints to
him that he can make use of the army to
whose command he has been raised by the
President, to enfore the unlawful aud mu-
tihous demands which it urges him to
make.
We do not believe that any general in
our armies is fool or traitor enough to at
Tempt the role which the Herald insults
Gen. Mcclellan by suggesting to him but
the fact that men are found ready instant
,llyto avail themselves of period of pub
lie excitement to propose measures which
could only be carried into effect by a trail
ltor and brigand, and which would over
throw the government and produce acom-
motion in the NSrth which could be favora-
BILE only to the rebels should put US on
our guard how we snffet our minds to wan
der from the one object which all patriots
: have at heart, the defeat of the enemy. We
mhst be calm we must be patient, too,
and watchfulo of the nalignants who eudea-
vor to mtslead public opinion by artful
cries, and in a hundred ways try TO draw
away The miGd and heart of the nation
from the one object which it wants to ac-
complish, and which now tries all its pow
ers. i.fe7fsv4 fg5Hst
We, too, have a word for General Nc
Clellan. We do not urge him to the trea-
sonable work ofsnatching at supreme pow
eri but We urge him to beat the enemy,
and 10 do 1t quickly to prove himself what
his friends claim him to be, and what the
whole country would rejoice to see him, a
commander capable OF driving the enemy
from the field. There lies his duty, not as
lNorthern traitors suggest, in reconstructing
cabinets, or debating terms to the civil