Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-03-07

Mississippi runs from North to South. But
take the joint resolutions introduced the
other day into the Indiana Senate by Mr..
Wolfe, which we find spread abroad upon
the columns of Southern papers az if they
were of some interest to u.s. in one of
these resolutions Mr.. Wolfe declares shat
arms alone, under the recent and present pol
icy of the Cabinet at Washington, will never
accomplish that desirable object" namely
restoration of the Union, it isunder auoth-
er policy, of another Cabinet at Washington
Mr.. Wolfe would go to work. The second
resolution of Wolfe says: MExperience has
taught the costly and bloody lesson, that
s0ar alone is the remedy for disunion; but
a war, mind, for the Union and not for the
negro. The Sizth resolution declares "tlat
the State of Indiana, on account of her de-
yotion to the Union and her geographical
position and commercial interest, never
will consent to any settlement upon a ba-
sis ofdisuuion, or policy which shall sep
arate her from the States bordering on the
Mississippi river. Her highest interest de-
mauds the perpetuatiou of the Union, and
especially that the great valley of the Mis-
sissippi, from its source to its mouth, shall
remain under one government and one
flag" which is precisely what Mr.. Vallan-
digham says.
What comfort is all this? Those people
of the Northwest are not only making war
upon us with all their might, but announce
ing to US that they will continue to make
war until we submit, nay, that they, with
their policy, are the only party which can
make that war decisive, crushing and tri-
umphaut. Indiaua's interest, indeed. stde-
mands" that Mississippi shall be under the
same government and flag with her! And
to compel that cousummation, she will
scourge Mississippi with fire and sword
And these are our friends. A plague of
such backing.
Ofcourse we are pleased that the North
west sickens of the war; but let US not de-
ceive ourselves. II is not the Washington
Abolition policy which has brought them to
this. It is their continued ill-success, and
the dismal prospect before them. We do not
deny that 1t is a wholesome frame of mind,
but the Confederates, by their desperate re-
slstauce to that Atrocious invasion, have
produced the excellent symptoms. If our,
energy were to slacken, or the tide of vic
tory should turn against us, their rage
against Lincoln would slbside, their ten
derness for US disappear. Is there any hu-
man being at the South, who does not feel
that those people of Indiana and Illinois.
who are now swarming around Vicksburg
and Nashville. intend, If possible, to be re-
warded with Southern plantations, and to
pay their war debt out of Southern confs-
cations2 II they begin to bethink them
now that the enterprise will not pdy, to
whom do we owe it? To our army, alone,
then, we would leave the whole task Of
dealing With the Great Northwest, for the
present and at potnt-blank range So long
a fh9V Ennn fbatH
the terms on which we stand with those
States are terms of utter and mortal de-
iance.
We do ardently wish that we could
break down and finally explode this idea
of looking to the Northwest It is not
uncommon amongst US; it has its advocates
amongst good and devoted citizens of the
Confederacy. Yet it is blunder, akin to
that other blunder which weakened and
bafHed US for twelve months-reliauce
upon European friendship and intervene
ton.
1t is victory over our enemies which
alone will make US friends in Europe, and
which is already giving rise to sympathetic
feelings IN the breasts of some of our enc
mics themselves.
Let us not check those nascent sympa.
thies by relaxing in our military efforts. or
- eANSSAN5 SACAkuLSS VI lElGuuSulp-tleYH
will TAXA those oyertures as signs of weak
ness and despair; and they will be right.
They will say, how dare these rebels au-
proach us with their vile proposals? For
whom do they take usR And Immediately
would rise once more before their minds
eye, fresh and fair Us ever, visions of the
fertile wales of the South in loyal Yankee
hands-Southern women for hand maids
Southern men for vassalsl And their an
sWer to our oyertures would be, fresh lev
les of the hungriest Roosiers poured over
Tennessee and down the Mississippi.
Let us respond, then, to the syInpat HES
OF the Northwest in the proper spirit-that
Is, with the bayouet. Those fond feelings
which-they say-are gushing and flowing
towards us now, let us not rudeiy turn
them back to their spring in the Hoosier
heart, but rather open wider the Source,
and quicken the current, and swell the
volume Of their love by the only means
we have ever used with success, namely
horse, foot, and especially artillery.
The New State In Jackson County.
A private letter from jackson county to
one of our citizens contains the following
good news about the new State:
eve are having meetings for the new
State all over the county. The Union men
seem all astir in the good cause. From
present indications believe nine.tenths of
our people will go for the amendment or in