Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-31
(Frouu the Cincinnati Commercially
The Enemies of the Country in gu
Midst,

There is q fact TO be noted and a lesson
to be learned, in the recent raid of rebels
at Newburg, Indinna-the only cas2 in
which armed secessiOuists have, in any
public capacity, set foot on the soil OF
free State since the war commenced. The
rebel thieves, assasstus and incendiarles
found citizens of Indiana to cooperate
with them. Mad and desperate as their
fOray was, there were those IN the very
town they attacked, whose svmpathies
with TENN were too strong not to be mani
tested. The fate of those sympathizers
with all that is infamous, should serve as a
warning to the enemies of the National
cause who are among us. Two of them
were shot without mercy, and others were
arrested, are in close confinement, and will
be punished with exemplary severity. Let
it be known, marked and inwardly digested
that the men who sympathize with the
rebels are the enemies of the communities
in which they live-that such is the ma
ignaucy and fOolhnrdineSs of such men,
that they are prepared to aid gangs of
horse thieves, house burners and MUIR
derers in raids upon those who
are friends of their country. There
can be none but patriots and traitors
in this war, said Stephen A Douglas,
and it is time we knew who the patriots
and traitors are. Mems principles in these
times, are facts of some Importance, and
those who are making cutlery that this war
is san Abolition raid" and who are work
ing to eInburrAss the recruiting service, are
absolutely aiding the rebellion. They are
holding the knife Of the assassin ut the
thronts of honest meu. The men in Ohio
who are not for the war, are in league with
the traitors in Kentucky, and they are as
malicious and mischevOus us any seces-
mt
The business of acting as traitor spies in
our midst, and of giving aid and comfort
to the rebel desperadoes, by opposing with
the measures becoming cOnspirators, the
success of recruiting, must stop before it
goes further. The men who are lying daily
| and hourly about the design and purpose
and prospects of the war, are actually
threatening civil war north of the Ohio.
1t is not worth while to blink the issue
The facts are too prominent to be over
| looked, and too important to be disregard
ed. If the enemies of the mutton in the
North insist upon it that the Government
must be crushed, or crush them with an
iron hand, the decision of the matter is not
doubtful, and the suspense will not be long.
The solid masses of the people of the North
have not engaged in this war with any iu-
tentloa of suffering themselves to be whip
ped by the traitors in arms, or browbeuten
by foreign or boitied by home sympathizers
with the gigantic crime, which must he
punished or the nation must perish. We
by no means charge the masses of the
Democratic party with treason, or with
sympathy with treason. a majority of the
prominent Generals in the feld-Halleck,
Mcclellan. Pope, Burnside and Buell.,
among others-arc Democrats-and there
is full representation of the Democ
party in the rnnks-but there are squads
of men i'll the North who are attempting to
use the name of the Democratic party mis-
chievousIy. They use it to cloak
treason as foul rs that of jeff. Davis
and they are to all practical iutents and
purposes, allied with him in the work of
destroying our Government. Point them
out aud they claim to be good Democrats,
and declatn the old party common places.
So does JEFF Davis prate of his patriotism
his Democracy" So with all the in
fernal crew arrayed against the mainten-
nnce of free Government on this continent.
III these seemingly dark days of the war,
the crests of the traitors are lifted up, aud
their forked tongues, snake like, are hiss
ing. Their insolence is becoming iusuffer-
able Their liendish malice-tbeir iucom-
parably false cries-the atrocity of their
libels upon the friends of the Government
tho tendencies of their doctrines and
practices to disorder and bloodshed, are
becoming popularity understood and it is
clear that if theI is the virtue and strength
in the country to preserve the Government
and who can doubt it?-there is the will
and the power to throttle the traitors, and
to extinguish the treason that lifts its bale
full head in our midst.
A corporation with soul has been