Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-02-11
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lNNBt@bu S0iumus on SATURDAY morning
last, there was an important item from
Richmond. 1t vas no less an item, than
that there had occurred q serious riot in
that city on last Tuesday night, so serious
that the authorities contemplated declare
log martial law, aud that during stbe riot
persons setre heard 1k0Hhhg fo+ tks Union.
This item was from the RieHmond Dipates.
lis full Of the greatest encouragement for
loyal hearts. 1t goes to confirm the opin-
ion We advanced on Friday morning-viz.
that As our armies progressed South
ward they would meet welcoming -thaus-
ands. ss'-5e'
Everything seems now to bright
en- every day for the Union cause
We are gaining victory after victory
Our progress is steady. The good
tide seems to have fairly set in our
favor. The evil days of the rcbels-by
our own observation and their own con-
feIsiOn, seem gathering upon them. Their
papers are filed with walls. DiIeoutent
and faction is doing its work Davis has
his pRrtizHns-Hunter has his, and the ire
'Peetivs papers are bitter in their dsuun-
Citations of each.
To add to their troubles and apparently
to ail their of woe, the enlistment queS-
tiou Is looming upon them in diSbearting
proportions. Prom the Memphis appeal
We take the following article on the sub
jeet:
eft were foolhardy and uuwise to con.
ceal the fHetthRt the profoundest statesmen
IN the Confederacy entertain great appre-
tensions on the subject of reeuiistments,
involving results, as we believe, pregnant
with veal or woe to the republic. We
would be recreant to our duty ass candid
aud outspOken journal were we to fail to
expose the peril of the future connected
with this matter, which must be avoided
by the combined wisdom of public legiS-
lation and the patriotism Of the people.
Our ship ofstats has so far escaped the
dangers Of the rude storm whose hurricane
blasts have ragged so furiously for the last
nine months, aud has safely entered calm
and quiet sea, beneath sky that is almost
cloudless. But reefS and breakers are vet
ahead, snd woe be to the pilots in charge
OF the helm should ;hey fail to see, or see.
lug, not regard them. When these perils
are passed, as We believe they will be, and
without which foreign reeognitious aud
broken hloekldes a=e mere nihility, our in
dependence, already achieved, can be main.
famed Against an Invading army Of more
than million Of men.
But we must have large and effective
army for the attainment OF this end, which
can never DO organized in proper time I'M.
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service will re-enlist. When the neeessf-
ties Of the Government become known, and
the fact iS understood that their country
now appeals to them for their services as
sole couservatorB Of the national ark that
has been rescued from the polluting hands
OF vaudal army,,Will our volunteer sol.
diery fail to respond? 'TWere a base
eAlumny upon their patriotism, IL It IL not
high treason, to harbor the suspicion that
they would not. 1t 10 not in consonaucO
With the spirit Of a brave people like our
own TO dishonorably capitulate in a GtruR-
gle which has been crowned with victory
upon victory, at a period when the morn.
ing OF their future gives tokens Of breaking
so brightly" fTfl -
This is a specimen article Of the kind
that have been appearing for some time
back in the rebel papers. They cannot
/ i . OF Z I
fail to arrest the attention Of the people of
the South and the effect must be to make
the waveriuE more wayeriug still, aud to
confirm the despOndiugU piop men. ThodS.
ands upon thousands such as our army met
at lIatteras-sueh as they have met wher-
ever they have gone, will, in their safe pIa-
ces-amidst their families-sscrelly thank
God and lake courage. They win feel
that the day Of theirdelivetauteiis dawn
ing; that secession is gradually receiving
fatal blows. The Tapers will appeal IN
vain TO the people TO Te.shlist. 4 And
the terms. of eighty thousand Of them
expire this month Of February=-nearly sc
not quite one third of the whole secession
army. The terms Of as many more will
expire eally in the spring. Surely the
rebel authorities have agrest trouble In
store for themselves. We, who remember
our trials of last summer, when the term
of the three mouths volunteers had ex-
Pired, and the larger portion of our pres
eui army had not been mustered into SER
vice, eau appreciate to some degree, the
emoarrhssments under which they will Ia.
Dor. But there is this difference i'm the
cases. We bad men enough ready to en-
list. Our only trouble was to organize aud
arm them With sufficient dispatch. But
the South has already brought into the
held about as many men as it can furnish.
1t those whose terms are about TO expire
do not re-enlis:, the army is at once great
y reduced .iu size, There is not the ma.
terial for another army. The Memphis
papers say that nine. tenths Of the Yolun!
tsers now in service must re enlist in order
to make the army eEsetive. We suppose
that mustmeap hine-tenths of those whose
term is expiring. We should not be sur
pri.ed II that statement were true. It is