Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-17

Q Reconstruction on Whatever grounds We
: eau get it, say In The startling words
> uttered in brisk, 'cOntident, shameless tone
aWoke meifrom my after dinner tOrp0r n
: / lay back in,my chair In public house
at Tuscaloosa. The speaker was hale
. hearty old-young fellow of forty-two. His
auditors, numbering half dozen, were
mostly younger than himself, and appar-
emily as fit food for powder as any class OF
J robust ''exemptsp as have come within my
vision. The various replies IN answer 70
the speakers discourse were flatteFing
enough 70 him. One Df the gubmissfouisIs
exclaimed "YOu'Fe right, John. A did
old Mississippi refugee, with his family
and fifty niggers, stopped at my place. yes
terday and wanted supplies. Told him I'd
see him Ia purgatory FIRST; to 50 home aud
defend his own state, not to run OF aud
eatus all up. If having to run OF and
leave everything 70 the Yankees amt sab
IjugatiOu, I'D like to know what is. It's
time this thing was stopped. and now rm
ordered out, although my substitute is
with Lee, aud must leave my property 70
take care Of itself. III be Id first"
Such ideas as these have heard recent
ly so frequently advanced by men of prop
erty, who, for various resasons, are exempt
from military duty, and who have never
shouldered a musket or carried a saber,
that wealth and patriotism seem fncom-
patible. Now, when It becomes impera-
tive to lend the aid of their strong arms in
support of the cause-'sreconstructiO !"
sing they all-sO0ner than expose their
/ precious persons, or reliuquish an acre of
their cherished lands.
THE "LAsT DITCH" ABAHDOERD-A NEW PI-I
NALIFY FOUND IN THE "FRIBEDLY TREE"
This writer, in the course of his appeal,
makes confession which may be taken as
evidence of the entire change Of tactics for
the last extremity by therebels. he "gives
it up" that subjugatiOn is pOssible-an ad-
mission which necessarily required aban-
dOnment Of the :'last ditch" theory, and
the invention of new one. This is inge-
niOusly done by introducing the great
President himself in the grand historic act
of firing from behind ''frieudly tree'-
a genuine bushwhacker. Here is the pas
sage:
Our President promised that, If the dark
-est hour should be forced upon MS, when
our capital should fall, when our last mill |
itary organization should become scattered |
or expire, he would join that patriot band |
of heroes, who, from behind some friendly |
NOulu 70 greet l0Nhuef
With the crack Of the rife, aud make his /
track one Of blood, famed ever after in his
tory as the last stand of the freeman.-
When the last armed man shall retreat to
the Gulf; when every mile of southern soil
shall be Watered with the patriots blood;
when even the h1Ezard shall AY from ther
stencil Of our pHtIfd i0es-T Classical, e.
then sunJugatIou may cOIhs hOnOraDIy; /
submission, reconstruction, never.
THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENF CHARGED
WITH PUsILLANIMIMY.
Richmond Correspondents Of the Mobile Tribune.
We are now in the very tbroes of the /
revolution. The bloody sweat and agony |
of our labor for the birth of liberty are
upon MS. All hopes of peace have been
Obscured by an impenetrable gloom. At
every point Of the compass from Which-We |
looked for fair wind and q bright sky,
dark storm. clouds threaten and lOWer.-l
The time has come when every state in
this cOnfedeFacy must depend upon itself.
Let blind adherents and partizans close
their eyes, but the people must awaken 20
the fact that our gOUeTnmeRt lacks VigOT.
health and strength. This is no time to
inquire into the cause of its debility or
inability. But the fact has been too long
apparent, that morbid distempeT has
exhibited itselfin the exercise Of its func-
tiOns. Let no man misunderstood me. /
do not mean TO attempt for a moment 20 4
impair the,cOnfdence Of the people in the
high integrity, devotion and patriotism of
the President in this crisis. All men are
not endowed with the same great mental,
moral and physical abilities; aud the
President has certainly not called around
him men Of that distinguished stamina, as
statesmen, who might have been selected,
even if he has exhibited on all occasions
these eminent qualities himself. The peO-
pie Of the states, therefore, must look to
their own defense, using every means in /
their power, and acting with yigOr, eour-
age and determination, while giving, 70
the fullest extent, their hearty support
and cooperation 70 the administration.
DESPERATION OF THE CAUSE.
Army Of the Tennessee Correspondents Of the Mem.
phis Appeal.
Ny litters may have seemed too diseur-
sive for the general taste, but 1 may say, in |
addition to my own 7peFsuasiOns Of duty, |
that have il in commission from an officer |
in high rank, and higher intelligence aud |
patFiOtism-the patriotism which springs
from the active sympathy Of warn interest
and pursuit with the people, as the more
general or enlarged sentiment of love of
c0untFy, and who has been with the army
from the beginuing-tO press the fact home
to the people that nothing will now save
US, under the blessing Of God, except by
recruiting our army by the addition of eve
~ man, whatever his age, capable Of mill
ity service. In our present extremities
this may save us, and nothing else will.
MR. yALLANDIGHAN's STATEMENT.
From the Richmond Dispatch.
A portion Of Mr.. yallandigha address
embodies very stronge statement. II IS
70 the effect that he (Vallandighaml, while
in the Confederate States, did not meet
with q single person who was not resolved
70 perish rather than yield TO the pressure