Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-11-04
WHEELING. Va. TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 4 1862

they say, "put on good face, and our
friends at the North will scare the Govern
ment into letting US 60" ''Don't give up"
they whisper, 'Ihe Seymour Wood faction
at the North will yet rescue us from de-
struetton."
And TINS the rebels, who would at once
lay down their arms and submit if the loyal
States showed firm and united front, are
encouraged to struggle on, to avoid decis-
i've battles aud proIOug the war, by the
hopes of help they have from the Seymour
lite movement. Now, whether they are JUS
tilted CT not in all these hopes, the injury
this movement does to our cause must be
apparent to every one. Nor is it less plain
that every vote given to au opposition can
didate at the coming election, under these
circumstances, does really and unmistake-
ably give aid and comfort to the but.lateIy
despairing rebels.
Southern loyalists assure the people Of
the North that Seymourite success now
would have the effect in the South of
victory for the rebel army; aud an emf
nent loyal democrat of Missouri showed in
our columns few days ago what was the
effect in that state last year, upon rebel
army, of the defeat of the democratic"
opposition movement in the free states.
He wrOte:
"A year ago, in Missouri. a rebel army,
YariOusly estimated at from fifteen thous-
aud to fifty thousand men, captured and
was occupying one of the most important
cities in Central Missouri, whilst bands of
guerrillas were gathering in all our north
ern counties Except the one in which l
write,) preparatory to joining the advance
host. In the then threatening attitude in
our midst, the uncertainty hanging over
the endorsement the coming elections in
the northern states were about to give the
Administration in its conduct Of the war,
dispirited the loyal men of Missouri to such
degree that iE requires ten times more
labor for the state to raise the nine thous-
and men she did raise in September and
October, 1861, than it did in February aud
March, 1862, to raise thirteen thousand
men fer service within our borders, whilst
loyal army of more than thirty thousand
men had, in the meantime. entered the Fed
eral army from Mo, alone. From the first
dGy the result Of the elections IN The free
States became kH0rH in Missouri, The spirit
Of the rebellion was broken in our midst.-
The -ebel army fell back towards our
southern border, dismayed and demoral-
ized-partly, indeed, because it was met
by an overwhelming loyal force. But it
was egrcgious folly to deny that fear and
CONSERVATION tgere infused into their ranks By
tie unaninity displayed in the elections in the
Northern States. So palpable was this. no
one here yOntured to deny tho influence
these elections had. In fact, through the
months of November and December, 1861,
all Northern Missouri literally swarmed
with Prices mem returning to their homes,
while Cen Price had bimself abandoned
the State, never, as we hoped, to return
Many of these men came back to remain
at their homes in quiet, aud in good faith
have done so. Not few, indeed, seeing
the error into which they had been sedu.
ced, entered the Union army, and are to-
day engaged in assisting to suppress a re-
bellion of which they were once part
This much UuS secured for the good Of Mis-
souri, By tie defeat of democratic 'orgGRiEG-
fions' in the free States. in 1861,