Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-09-15
The spirit OF the people aud what &c
PromIseG.

The spirit OF the country as gatnereu
from travellers, correspondents and our ex-
changes, is in the highest degree eucOur-
aging. Never was there such rally to
arms as that now going on throughout the
loyal states. From Maine to Minnesota
the dtums are beating aud the people are
rallying A gentleman just returned from
m extended tour in the West informs US
that we can form no proper conception of
the spirit of the people. They are raising
en- mAsse, as it we're, and rushing to the
points of defense along the Southern bOr-
der. Young men and old are going, and
they are taking along with them their rifles
and:their shotguns, their pistols aud knives.
Around their shoulders swing the old
fashioned powder horns fall of powder, and
tho old fashioned leather game pouches
full of bullets and shot. Every man is
provided with some little home arrange
meut for carrying rations, and every man
has his blanket and over. coat-all provided
at hisow expense or that of his ueighbor's.
In Wisconsin, Iowa aud Minnesota thous-
ands. of these men are going to the Indian
grounds, to hunt down aud exterminate the
treacherous savagss who, either at their
own instigation or that of the rebels have
seized upon this hour of onr calamitics TO
steal, burn and murder through the more
remote white settlements. They swear
fearful vengeance on these inhumau ma
RAIDERS.
From Cleveland we havs letter from a
delayed correspondent who informs us
that owing to the demands upon the trains
going south from that city in tn way of
carrying the thousands eagerly pressing on
to the points of defence along the oincin-
natl border, no other persons are allowed
on the cars. Train after train loads and
departs Never before was anything like
the present enthusiasm, determination and
Indignation of the people seen. The re-
Grating offices too, in that city, we are
told. are crowded again all the day long,
as in the first days Of the war. The nppli-
cations appear to increase in an inverse
ratio with the number enlisted, and the
wonder is where all the people come from
Up 10 our neighboring county of Wash
ingtun, in Pennsylvania, the feeling among
the people IL most intense. During the
last days of last week there was general
rush to the scene of appreheudsd danger.
The very first men Of the county-men OF
ago and the highest espectability-such
men as Hon.John M Living, DR.. Scott, Joseph
Henderson, Colin Reed, aud scores of Others
whom we cannot stop to name, shouldered
their guns and started for Harrisburg.
Some people, habitually despoudeut.
may think that the present hour is not a
hopeful one. There are plenty of people
who are SO coustitutionally feint of heart
that they cannot appreciate the effects
which our late reverses have had and will
have upon the loyal public mind. And
yet it is true that the present hour is the
most hopeful one of the war. There is not
nova devoted Union man who does not,
under the threatening circumstances of the
/" situation" feel himself more embittered
agaist the rebellion, and more determined
in.his desire to see it put dowa than ever
before, And this is the feeling of the peo-
pie of the loyal States everywhere. The
idea of invasion by the rebel hordes who
have forced their way to the border, has
stuug the people to very quick, as it were,
and the hitherto quiet current of their pa
triotism has been suddenly dashed into a
fairy, that will never spend itself until the
rebellion that so accuses and affrights the
land shall be utterly wiped out.
This is very Significant state of public
feeling. The North will never yield this
contest Nothing is palmer than their in
tense determination on this point. Patri-
otism and passion, now most acrimoniously
blended, combine to. inspire the people
anew, and "the!sWord Of tho Lord aud of
Gideon is the cry of thec class of men who
have taken arms in their hands. 1t is in
vain for any sympathiEsr to sOlace
himself over the. recent successes of the
consPiratO+s. Let every such person M.
detstand that these reTerses to our arms
have but one effect, viz ITO make his
PRINCIPLES more intolerable in the eyes of
the people. And let him uddsrstand that
each Of the little temporary successes of
which We read from day to day, has but
the effect to intensity this feeling.
We have no other opinion of the issue
of the, great contest than this, viz that
through all this triaI-this sore trial which
We are undeFgOiug-an all wise Providence
will so conduct the progress of the war
thasie win purge the nation utterly of all
seed Of future rebellion The war for the
unity ofithiS nation is bsisg fought now,
aud it Is being fought once for all and
forever Had We succeeded uninterrapt
edly from the start there is every proba.
billy that We, should have achieved but q
very superficial triumph. The South has
got TO be thoroughly conquered and sub