Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-08
A CharacterIstIo Expedient of the
Rebel Leaders.

a oharaoterIstio E1pedlent of the
| Rebel Leaders.
(From the Baltimore American.)
The leaders of the Great Conspiracy
have done great many foolish things in
their time, and they are about to do
another, in this instance following tho
| lead of that small pattern of Confederate
reatness-Monsieur Beauregard. 1t will
perhaps be within the recollection of our
readers that we some time ago noticed a
letter, written by Beauregard, assuming
to deal with the best methods of DANA
| ging the Government and the lOyal States,
and one of his characteristic suggestions
was to call all loyal men '9AbOlitiOnists!"
He added that when he got command
| -he was then in retirement-hci intended
to do it
Well, the latest indications from the
Cotton States in this particular are that
the suggestion is likely to take He has
returned to the scene where he made his
| first bid for an immortality of infamy, and
his fellow traitors are trying one more
device tostill further inaame the ignorance
and ferocitY which abounds AS the thing
IL likely to spread, let the loyal prepare
to accept that cognomen with as much
philosophy as they can muster for the
needed occasion, 70 be sure they have
long been shOwered with offensive epithets
by the eastonished and waspish ''chivalry," /"
but now it would appear that the thing
| is to be systematiaed, and one blasting
terrible, sweepingly savage term is to
put all subjected to it beyond the pale of
humanity almost-at least within the
limits OF that terrestrial paradise, the cot
ton region,
However, in some senses it is nothing
to triae with. Remembering the tremen-
dous part which another little word
coercion played in the terrible drama
at one time, allmust lOokto see the epithet
| in question: t'Abolitionists"- "-refurbished
and put forward with power anew to
wound and to kill.
AS evidence that there is no mistake in
what we have advanced, we would call
the readers attention to two recent nn-
Engagements from one arrival of Southern
news Here is from the Mobile Adpeyti-
sea- and Register of the Goth.
"The army has been on the qtti pire
for week past, anticipating an attack
| from the enemy To-day information was
received that the "Abolitionists" have re-
| tired some distance. From their move.
ments, it is difficult to conjecture whether
they mediate an attack on Pemberton's
army or not"
Let us bear in mind now, that this ap
plies to no scouting party merely, but 10
the great army of Gen Grant, composed
largely of men who have never in the
Northwest sympathized in any sense with
Abolition as creed that it is not aimed
at Massachusetts, as of old, and we may nm
l iHaRafa16 aSvaaRfr,o, tho baIa ;aNa 4
make the epithet referred to as a means OF
rendering still more malignant the madness
of those amongst them already so badly
ldnped. Here is another announcement OF
the kind from the Richmond pspers rIr,F
"AUGUGTA, November goth. The Savau
nah papers of this morning say that two
Abolition guH60atS and one mortar boat at.
tackled Fort McAlister, Genesis Point, on
the 0geecbee river, yesterday morning.
After fierce engagementthe boats retir-
led"
We have expressed the opinion that this
new movement on the part Of the rebel
leaders is u foolish one, and we think the
results to be attained by them will justify
the remark. II the term, under their man.
ipulations, has already ceased to be an of.
fensiVe one nearly. 6ecauSe iRdiscriminately
aud uyuStky applied, the course they are
taking now will end, and possibly, in ele.
yating 1t to that degree, that accepted ~ q
spirit of Indignation, il may come to be the
word Of power to great nation. And II
such should prove to be the case, taking
into consideration all the facts, it would
not be the FIRST instance In history where an
epithet, given as a reProach, has been ac-
cepted as distinction, to become thereaf.
ter thing OF terrible power. Tie patience
of the moderate men in the nation has long
IuiVe ea haaR fefan n lta .tVfF -. N,
shameless injustice of the Southern oil.
garchs, and IL the latter would know how
far they have lost ground by their pas
course, let them consider its effects up0E
fifteen hundred thousand voters in the
North, who, at the commencement of the
present conflict, hld stood by them to the
last pretext, Of right.
Let us remember, too, that in inanRura-
! ihg this contlietthe rebel lsadetsl started
out with the acknowledgment that there wa
no sufficient cause for II; that to ,lnite I'll,
South on the basis ptt foFpGrd 6y Soutl
CaroliRd Fictitious aids must be relied nm.
on. As long ago as 1851 the Hon. Mr.
Boyee, of that State. IN q letter addressed
to Hon ]. p. Riehardsou, said, speaking O
the chances of a "S0utheTn Union ~
"One thing is certain, hat SogA Carroll
) M cannot produce this SoHtheT1 Union, fol
! it, itdisPeasible preTeqHtsite Is a coRv1Crfo,
OF ITS H1cEsslTY on the miads oftss ISoHth
: eFn people ep==saying further oufin the san,
lletter-aSt Steession e aSdiHsf ths teisheF Of III
otker Sotitbern IStats5.h = =,
five add5tV this the declaration mad,
! by the three rebel f'eommissi5nefsn abroad
I-Yaheey Rost and Mann-to Lord JohI
Russell, the whole ground is covered fo
mofs than {epI years thlt this plot 70 des
trOS SthS e dasEnmsant as5 bsS6 50 Hand
/ As pertinent 70, the, presknt occasion vi
shan quote the passage 90 coneldsiSel il