Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-29
Fron lhe New YOrk rod.

waning popularity OF RebelIl0us
There are signs to show that the popu.
larity of tho rebellious movements in the
South is on the wane. The people, the
non.slaveho ders, begin to see that they
can only lose by the destruction of the
Union; and they have been misled by tho
shareholders into making war by whose
success only the shareholders eau be beue-
fitted, OF course, from the aristocratic
conspirators themselves we can expect NO
such change of sentiment. They are fight
ing not exactly for their rights, but for the
powers aud privileges to which they bad
been long accustomed, the power to WELD
the whole strength of the Union for the
nggrandizement of slavery, and the priVl.
lege TO say what they pleased and stop tho
mouths of their opponents with tar and
feathers. a.aa
But the people of those parts of the
southern states which have been for some
time redeemed from the rebel rule, gather
readily TO the old flag. In Western Teu-
nessee, where we are assured by the most
eminent rebel authority that the vote was
quite unanimous for secession eighteen
monts ago, there are now nearly il not
quite, two thousand men under arms for
the Union, belonging TO that region.
In Northern Mississippi i've hundred men
have been raised for the Union army; along
the Tennessee river some hundreds of Ten
nesseeanS are engaging the guerrillas. In
New Orleans General Butler has q corps of
natives and resiuents under arms. On the
other hand, in the border States the rebel
armies met with the coolest of welcomes.
They advanced into Kentucky and Macy
land, expecting to meet there the feeling
which existed there year ago they even
hoped for more zeal and determination in
favor Of rebellion, because they bad been
assured by the secession sympRthizers at
the North that the stringent acts of Con.
gress, the C0nhscation act In particular
had alienated the. border slave States from
the Union. But in Maryland they could
not get fifty recruits, and slough Lee
brought his army, flushed with victory, to
oppose ours. discouraged by recent defeats,
aud had therefore the prestige of success
and the hope of farther victories; these an.
ticipations could not gain him adberents,
and got him no help. M
In Kentucky the case is not much better
for the rebels Kirby Smith has piped.
frst gently and then fercely bat his
friends failed TO dance to the tune of t.Dix.
ie." He hoped to find nearly the whole
State rise to bis aid At the first call; aud
now with Bragg to help him, he sees go
few coming to his standard that he has
been compelled to announce a confscation
act more sweeping than anything thought
of by Congress. 1t is proclaimed from
Frankfort by the rebels that all who do
not enlist with them in forty days shall be
deprived of their property. The people of
Kentucky see aud feel the difference be.
tween rebel rule and the laWfnl authority
Of Congress and the Federal Government
aud kirby Smiths violence will make him
as few friends as Lees careful kindness
procured him 10 Maryland. Nor does the
threatened invasion of Missouri stir that
STAG as similar threats did Eve or six
mouths ago. The people of that State
have learned q severe lesson. They have
felt the Iron heel of tho rebel despotismo
aud, no doubt, IL Hindman can make bis
waIptowards Missouri, he will declare.
With equal disgust, what Kirby Smith and
his followers are reported TO have said OF
Kentucky. that the whole State 10 "abolt.
tionized.n ptf4
Moreover, the recent proclamation of
the President will only make rebellion
still more unpopular. The loyal men in
the border states will be glad to see new
and severer punishments provided for
those who have devastated their homes
ruined their business and and broken nm
their families These loyal border-states
men understand very we'll that leni y has
no effect upon the rebel leaders. thar
sharp and vigorous measures are needed
to crush the rebellion. They compre. |
bend that it is no child's play. and they
have learned by bitter experience that |
theenemy knows no such word as compro. |
mise. They will not be frightened with
the bugaboo of abolitionism. raised at the
North by secession sympathiEers at every |
step of active and energetic war, against
the enemies of the Union and the robbers
1f loyal men. Andrew johnson, Of
Tennessee, said long ago that "a rebel |
against this government has no right to |
OWN anything" and all truly loyal men
in the border states have earnestly Joined
hands with him on that s39as
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