Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-08

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The present Bilnati0u 10 ehtnga our opin.
iooi OF our feelings. Ihdesd Tosss ibinEt
% encourage uS sVsFyBheFe. We think
that all must Bee-Whht seems most eVl.
deaf 10 uS-lhttihO rebellion has bad it5
largest pFop0Ellohsaud iti hight Of power.
UndoF 20 imagaable eiFelnstaaess Gao che
soalh show sueh power IL the future move.
mOnts Of the rebellion 20 IL has thOWn bib.
erto, CONSUMPTION haI giVea tall the sol.
dlsu Il has arms Tor, and f0r those
nrmi il depends entirely upon the run.
ning Of the blockade, Il Is now max.
log ilS las, stand 10 the border SAist
and 90 The NiIsi'5iPpi river. Il bas
summoned all the force Il can possibly com
bine for iingle sGoftlo retain it, hold Of
RishmOud, That effort iteeFtsin, Weihilk.
70 lAil. We have all confidence 10 NeCiel-
lau, 10 his noble army, In the navy that
backs up all, and last, bat BY no means
least, 10 lhegood providence Of The God Of
this nation, The people Of the South are
tagged, and some Of them are ALREADY half
starved They have not the means larsub.
Siiupg, for another year, their great army
or themselves. Il seems evident that The
South muSl be fed by The North and Serlb.
Welt within a few months, or there will be
famine throughout the rebellious States
which will be King among the calamiliri
that will prevail there. Their paner money
Is unlyertally diirnAei, and their gold is
universally boarded OF scot out " the
country. Their naEy isnotonly Destroyed,
but all hope Of building another is aban.
doned
II Is under these circnmstanees that the
President calls Tor 100000 more troops, to
give the flashing touch TO the work il has
50 we'll nigh accomplished. Il is when the
hard lighting has been mainly done when
uolhing is left to do but to wipe out wa.
ming power, which may be shattered and
scattered in day before Richmond; when
the observing nations have ceased TO men.
ace Us with Intervention; when our navy
has become magnificent one, and isgrow.
ing With rapidly Ia lumber and efficiency;
Wheu our cOmnWniiiesare recovering from
the shock which war gave 10 Northern bu.
siness when our grAnAties are overflow.
ing with breads,uGj and new and splen.
did harvest Is adding TO the stock, that the
call for troops is made. That these are
needed for the work which remains to be
done, We have no doubt; for we must rise
viii such power that the leaders Of the
South and tue people Of the South shall
see that further resistance is hopeless
When this shall be done, the rebellion will
be essentially squelobed. The quicker this
iS dous, the quicker will the long desired
result be reached. Any lingering on the
part Of the North to GIL up the regiments
called for, would encourage the Southern
leaders and strengthen the rebellion.
We become beuumbel by excitement, al.
ter time. We are kept strained up to
such pitch that we loss 10 the Immediate
issues Of the hOur, what we are fighting
for-What the sttksih the contest is. Just
now, our attention is absorbed blythe do.
Tags at Richmond, and AlLhnger about
the telegraph to learn the facts, anxious
TO know whether We are whipped or Whcth.
er We are victorious. We become absorb
ed by the situation" every day, and for
get the flag Of stars and striPs which floats
over our forces and what that flag-fiOat.
ing over them and over our own peaceful
bomes-foating upon land and npon sea-
symboliEes When the dag was first fired
uponat Fort Sumter, then we knew what
Ii meant. Then we feltthe insult and the
sting. Bnt now, when 1t Is fred upon eve.
~ day, now, after hundreds and thousands
Of our noble boys have scaled their patriO.
tism wilhtheir blood, now, AItera year Of
fighting, we loss sight Of the vision which
We set before ourselves ut the opening Of
the war.
Thea with burning eye, an eager hand,
aud determined front, we stood ald saw
Tar across q waste Of war aud passage Of
gloomy horrors which only the name Of
war can suggest, a peaceful, undivided
land, over which, from north to sonth and
from east TO west aoated one las--thc
stars and stripes We determined then
that, whatever tic cost nigh. be in life
aud treasure, thai vision should be real-
ized. Have We forgotten this? Have we,
in the events Of the war, lost the object Of
Il, and cut ourselves loose from the sources
Of our insplratiou7 These arggood cues.
tioMs TO ask ourselves now. We know that
there isno less patriotism now than there
has been. It oaly needs tina: We look at
the objects Of tho war once more-leel
once more the reproaeh which the nations
diihouored flag is suffering, and look Tor.
ward once more 10 the grand consumma.
tton Of reunited country, to rouse the
fires that bnrned so brayely when the mn.
tiop's good half million rushed TO the
field, faster than arms could be placed in
their hands,
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