Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-04-21
AN ENcIDEAT.

existing IN tennessee, bearing directly'up-
on these matters:
AN TNoIDENT.
Although it scarcely belongs to the main subject
1 o. letter must just here put down remark
| two which were made 70 me last week by a loyal
citizen Of Murtreesboro, man who could not bow to
Said he 81 have recently come to the conclusion
thAt can no longer reside here, and as soon a.
GSanget my business in some kind ofOrder, shall
"Ms.y ask why you have come to that conclu-
Ne reflected for moment then replied. "You viii
think II strange II tell you that the immedists
cause Of my resolution to 60 away from here Is tho
oEc arrival q the Union army has dashed all
a. II cSnprehend that remark,' sad 1, "utill less
"Letme explain then. We imagined that when
you come, traitors, and those who sympathised with
them would be froWned down aud discoura. ed. nut
Instead OF that they have grown tnsolent and
than ever, account Of the deFenre aud
taVOr which you have shown them; 50 that we find
o'trsetre5 under . ban, socially and otherwise"
u. tried to offer some weak explanatory remark,
Wien he resumed
| ''It would have been far batter for us had not N
single Union soldier made his appearance in this
place or Vicinity After the Rebel army LEFT here the
resident Secessionlsts entertained wholesome fear
Of yours and treated with politeness and respect
But since you arrived they Imagine from your con.
not gained RsinEe man Ofthen, you have encouraged
them to treat us with supercilousuess aud tyran-
|
remarked that thought he was carrying his
denunciations little too lar.
SN9y said he, Only yesterday ooupleOf them
very presence Of a group Of your soldiersl'
| was abashed, and retired from the presence Of
that the threat Of which he spoke had really been
made, as he said, although In terms loss direct
scOundrel had emarked to him UAtter 4 while
there will be some fires in this town. and 1 know
Whose houses will be apt to burn"-Tennstses CSlr-
re!pORdeaee.
The condition of things indicated by
the details of this ''incident" appears 10
exist at all other points nearly where the
hopes and fears of Rebeldo IN are kept
on the qui rive by passing events. at
Louisville, Clarksville, Nashville, Win
chester, in portions of Missouri, the same
storyis told. and cOnciding as it does with
| our own observation and experience here,
the evil is attaining magnitude which I'M
peratively calls for the strong hand to cor
rect it. 'l
If the only or worst results of the toler-
alton of such demonstrations was, as in
the olden times, merely to influence an
election, to achieve success for party, it
would be matter of no consequence corn-
parativelY; but when everything of the
kind goes directly to cause new tlOodshed,
TO prolong horrors which ought to appall
the universe for their enormity, atfmid or
wavering policy should be condemned as
the grayest of errors, not TO say crimes.
We beg leave to say, right here, that the
loyal men of Maryland are not fighting this
battle merely for their own amusement or
for the amusement of the lockers on, and.
1t is poor encouragement to the earnest sup
porter of the cause of the country to find
disloyalty-atter afashion-encouraged to
throw obstacles in the way merely for the
loyal men to remove. As the matter stands
1 az 111
the loyal men of the land can gather from
any quarter to enable them not only to
| fight the battles of the Union, but to stand
up cheerfully under the load of taxation
which treason has brought upon them.-s
And when they sec meu-whoss sole busi-
ness, day by day, it is to fritter away and
throw discredit on the successes of the Gov.
ernmeut, tolerated when they see men
striving by false insinuations aud open as
saults to Paralyze the efforts, still going
forward unchallenged, well may they ac-
cept the doubts so industriously thrown
4 out as to its efficiency and ability to deal
with the evils ofthe hour. grGf
We hope, then, to see these short-com-
inRs considered and this policy changed
We do not desire anything like vindictive
policy in the case, but we should like to
see measures at once adopted better calcu-
| lated to put doDH treason calculated TO
teach it that it has no place amongst the
loyal, unless II is made to skulk in its ap-
propriate holes and corners away from the
light of open day. Either it is crime, or
It is not. Ifiit is a crime, the agents of
the Government have beenian are remiss
in dealing with it as it deserves. Ifit is
not crime, let us have it proclaimed, SO
that we may all be remanded at once
to the same level, for it is positive cruelty
to indulge Longer in that. r0se- wa Ter -treo =
ness, which but encourages revolt to deal
with it at least on the battlefield.