Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-08-26

The Richmond Enquirer OF the 10Th gives
the proceedings, including the following
message from JEFF. Davis. We observe
that c. W. Russell, who was elected for
this district By the Shriyer Grays, was
present and took his seattle audacious
traitor:
! MESSAGE or JEFF.
1t is again our fortune to meet for devil
sing measures necessary to the public well
| fare, whilst our countryis involved in a
desolating war. The suferings endured by
some portions of the people excite the
deepest solicitude of the Government, and
the sympathy thus evoked has been height
ened by the patriotic devotion with which
these sutferings have been borne. The
gallantry aud good conduct OF our troops,
always claiming the gratitude of the coun-
try, have been further illustrated on lard
fought fields, marked by exhibitions Ofin-
diyiiual prowcss which can find but few
parallels in ancient or modern history
Our army has not ialtered in any of the
| various trials to which it has been sub
jecIed, and the great body of the people
have continued to manifest IL zeal and
unauimity which not only cheer the bat
| tle-stained soldier, but gives assurance TO
the friends of constitutional liberty of our
final triumph in the pending struggle
against despotic usurpation.
The vast army which threatened the cap
ital OF the coufederacy has been defeated
and driven from the lines of iuvestment,and
the enemy, repeatedly foiled in his efforts
for its capture, isnow seeking to raise new
armies on scale such MS modern history
does not record to effect that subjugation
Of the South so often proclaimed as on the
eve of accomplishment.
| The perfidy which diregarded rights Sc
cured by compact, the madness which
trampled on obligations made sacred by
every consideration of honor, have been
intensified by the malignity engendered by
defeat. These passions have changed the
character of the hostilities waged by our
enemies, who are becoming daily less re-
gardful of the usSges of civilized war aud
the dictates of humanity. Rapine and
wanton destruction of private property,
war upon non combatants, murder of cap
tIyes, bloody threats to aYenge the death of
an Invading soldiery by the slaughter of
unarmed citizens, orders of Punishment
against peaceful farmers engaged in the
cultivation of the soil, are some of the
means used by our ruthless invaders to en-
force the submission of IL free people to
foreign sway. ConfScatiOn bills of
character so atrocious rs to ensure, If exc
cuted, the utter rnin of the entire popnla
ton of these States, are passed by their
Congress aud approved by their executive,
The moneyd obligations of the Confederate
government are forged by citizens of the
United States, and publicly advertised for
sale in their cities with notOriety that
i sufficiently attcsts the knowledge of their
/ government, and its completely in the crime
is further evinced 6y the fact that ths SOL
/ diare of rho in Calibn orD1ias fnnntl SIM.
piled with large quantities of these forged
notes as means of despoiling the country
people, by fraud, out of such portions of
their property as armed violence may fail
to reach. Two, at least, of the generals of
the United States IRE engaged, unchecked
by their government, in exciting serviie in
surrection, and i'll arming and training
slaves for warfare against their masters,
citizens of the confedsracv. Another has
been found of instincts so brutal as to iu-
yite the violence of his soldiery against the
women OF II captured city.
Yet, the rebuke of civilized inau has
failed to evoke from the authorities of the
United States one mark of disapprobntion
of his acts; nor is there any reason to sup
pose that the conduct of Benjamin F. But.
Ter has failed to secure from his govern
ment the sanction and applause with which
il is known to have been greeted by pub
lie meetings and portions of the press of
the United States. To inquiries made of
the Commander in Chief OF the armies of
the United States, whether the atroCiOns
conduct of some of thrir military COM
maudAnts met the sanction of that gov.
ernment, answer has been evaded on the
pretext that the inquiry was insulting, and
no method remains for the suppression of
these enormities but such retributive JUS
tice as it may be found possible to execute
Retaliation in kind, for many of them,
is imprNcticable, for | have had occasion
to remark in II former message, that under
no excess of provocation could our noble
hearted defenders be driven to wreak vea-
Igeance on unnrmed men, on women or on
children. Bat Stern and exemplary J,inish-
Hlent ran and must be metcd oUt 10 he mur-
derers and .fetons, who, disgracing the pro-
fcssion of arms, seek to make of public
war the occasion for tue commission of
the most monstrous crimes.
Deeply as we regret the character Of the
contest into which we are about to be
forced, we must accept it as an alternative
which recent manifestations give us little
hope can be avoided.
The evaporation of failure has aroused
the worst passions ofour enemies. A large
J portion of their people, even of their cer-
lgymen, now engage in urging an excited
IpopulRce TO the extreme of ferocity, and
nothing remains but to vludicate onr
rights and to maintain our existence by
employing against our foe every euergy
and every resource at our disposal.
append for your information copy of
the pupers exhibiting the action of the gov
eminent, up to the present time, for the re-
preston of the outrages committed on our
people. Other measures now in progress
will be submitted hereafter.
In inviting your attention to the lcgisla-
tiou which the necessities of our condition
require, those connected with the prosecu-
ton ofthe war command almost undivided
attention.
teuded to secure the public defense by gen