Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-09
NUMBER 29O.

The coat 1 have made fits exactly the
neutral bankers and leading Americans
abroad-who are waiting for victories
before hoisting Secession or Union flags.
The garment is not out of place on Eng
lands back. Neutrality in England is
treachery. Americans say, England,
with all thy faults, We love thee still
Englishmen say, America, with all thy
virtues, we continue to hate thee. Strong
men choose sides-weak men are ALWAYS
neutral; once an idiot, always an idiot.
The world is packed with fools.
Neutrality is imbecility. No man can
serve two masters. He must either love
the one aud hate the other, or hate the
one and love the other Our Saviour was
not neutral. England for three gene
rations las been unjust to America. He
that is unjust in little is unjust in much.
Tue maxim comes from an ancient and
respectable authority. Unjust in small
matters for half a century, England was
just ripe for being unjust in great mat
ters during our revolution. Neutrality
is disguise; assassins are neutral before
they use the poignard The tiger in the
jungle is a neutral before he plunges ON
his victim. When you wish to destroy
an enemy you first conceal your plan.
Error and injustice are neutral before be-
coming arrogant aid impudent
A love of fault-6nding Is no proof of
wisdOm.-Your criticisms on General
Buffers proclamation are as just as your
pretended love for America is honest.
Critics, says Wycherley, are like thieves,
condemned to execution, choose the busi-
ness ofexecutioners rather than be hung.
Your distortion of the New Orleans pro
clamation is worthy of the people that
were abolitionistS when they thought by
preaching that do:trine they could break
up our Republic-and pro-slavery adyo-
Gates when they believed we should pre-
serve the Union. The proclamation you
haye dishonesty translated Do you
mean to say that you believe Gen. Butler
issued the order for immoral purposes?
Do you really understand its wording
to signify that unbridled license was
given to the Federal army2 The very
idea is contrary to the instincts of our
nature, insulting to the American people
and outraging the senses of our race.
You give the order meaning never ins
tended. It was unfortunately worded,
but tho spirit of the order was u proper
one. Ladies' hold the remedy. Let them
remain indoors, let them behave like wO-
men, not like human tigresses. The ter
rible slaughter of our soldiers will some
day lay heavy upon their consciences, wO-
men who 60 out of their way t6einsult
Federal officers who have treated them
with every courtesy, by pouring hot
water out of their windows when they
pass, or throwing vitrol in their faces on
the pave, or so far unseing themselves
as to strike an officer, ought not to object,
when martial law is ordered, to prOcla-
nations that enforce ciYility where rude
ness was so marked.
The municipal law permits no disorder
in the street. Women breaking it are sent
to the CalaboOse. That is the terrible or
der, nothing more-uoIhing less-that
arOuses England and provokes this debate.
Lord Palmerston takes advantage of it To
have another fling at the Americans, aud
Gregory and Walsh are mad with delight.
Lord GarnarvOu also brings out Earl Rus
sell, and all the newspapers clap their hands
with joy-and you, gentlemen, echo the
II picture in the HlaStrated Metvs dnringE6e
SepOy revolution2 l do-and three 5fea-
tures were -cannOn-Euglish
officers, and Sepoy messengers bearing a
flag of truce. The picture has another
side-the officers consuIt-the ,SePOys arc
bouud on the muzzle of the guus-and,
with their flag of truce tied around, they
were blown towards the camp from whence
they came. +"
Did Mr.. Seward get up in his place in the
Senate Chamber and protest against it in
the name of hnmauity2 The atrocities of
your soldiers 10 India were only equaIIed
in their brutality by NenR Sahibi himself.
When a British. officer enters a Sepoy viii
lage and gives the order 70 bis regiment to
rayish tho Sepoy women, and then level
their houses TO the earth, humanity shud.
der5 for civilization Compared with snch
fends General Butler is scholar, gem
tleman, and Christian. How forgetfuIi of
the rights of civilization for our statesmen
to remain silent without recording their in
dignation at such brutal acts England
must feel proud of those Christian officers,
and no wonder she is indignant at Butler.
Have you forgotten the siege of Liner
ick 2 Is il true that Englishmen rsvished
the women before butchering the garrison
and burning the town. Do you remem-
ber the old-blOoded slaughter of the Mac
donalds of Glencoe, under the same dy-
nasty2 Verify, what man was Lord
Byron 2
You are the best Of fcut-throots.-Do not START
The phrase Is slrakespears's, aud not niIpplIed:
Wars a abrain-spatteFins-Win pipeslittinS art,
UaIea her eaass Gy rigst Je saAetgfed
If you have acted once a generous part,
Tile world, not the worlds masters, viii decide,
And Shail be delighted to learn l1aO,
Sars you and yours, haUs gat'ied al IVatertOof
Davoustin in Hamburg-Jun in Lisbon
MalakOff in the Algerian caTes-wers gull
ty Wellington at st. Sebastian
worthy of Russia in Poland oz Haynau iu
Austria. Buffers offence is words Eng.
lands offence was acts. Was Butler's mo-
tive good or bad2 ttis the motive, not the
act, that blackens the crime. England is