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

politician, winning his way. to power by
such means as seemed lindispensable.-
StoneWall Jackson carried the news from
tredericksburg to Richmond, and every
where proclaimed in as the prelude to a
formal acknowledgement of Southern in
dependence. He soon after told a New
Hampshire prisoner whom he paroled 20
go home and vote the Democratic ticket
and there would be no more fighting. A
Mobile pilot captured in one of the block
ade runners, observed that the South was
just ready to give up the contest when the
democratic victories in New, York, Illinois.
&C., indicated the breaking down of the
war party of the North, and inspired the
rebels to prosecute the contest. s5s
We do not believe there is among those
who parade their an 1iety. for peace, wheth-
er at the North, or at the South, one who
more anxiouslyi desires that ipestimable
blessing than we do. War is the trade of
barbarians; ;tis Something that the world
ought long ago to have outgroWn; but here
1t is, aud we must make the best of it If
governments established as legitimately as
ours may be defied and torn to pieces after
the fashion inaugurated inlthe Slavehold-
ers' Rebellion, then all government be-
comes an absurd farce, aud the Judge on
the bench. must ask the forger at the bar
Wnether he Is Willing to go to the prison
before sentencing him. Admit the So
called right of secession, aud every man of
thrift holds the savings of "a life of indus
try 1t the mercy of any rnffian who may
fancy 1t his interest to secede from the
State and coolty set sside the laws which
regulate the ownership of property.
There are some in the loyal States who
seem ready to say, 80, let the Confedetates
gop Certainly; let them gol We only
wish they tcould go--to Australia, South
America, Kamschatka-anywh that
would preclude their lronbling this coun.
try any further with their Internal devices:
If the men who fomented this most cause.
less and desolating rebellion would only
betake themselves to some region where
consPirators and cut.throats arc in de-
mand, we would not object even to being.
taxed to pay their passage. But they nre
here-righ ! in the heart Of our country
claiming dominion up to the very walls of
its capital. Make peace on the terms i'm
piled by themi in. the phrase 'tLet us alone!"
and they will have an undoubted right to
erect Notifications and plant batteries
where they can shell out the President and
Congress whenever they may see.fit to re-
peat the Fort Sumter game-and they can
surely never have less iIirafeyts Iess -eycrio,s
for Commencing a war nnon no tban ~
that case. Men who tallS 6f pescs 10 his
the. peace that you are in quest off
lForcibly does D'Israeli, the able Tory
leader in the British House of Commons,
thus exult over the prospect opening before
the aristocrats, of the Old World from their
confidently anticipated triumph Of ,Seces-
sion, in these memorable words:
conyiction tbst tl,oss IN th;s w
NAV be yonng enSngb - iivo go - s.;,,.o wv
the cooncinsio5 "a
lof his =; ~
Ca thev can rscoo,n;za 5,taS
10 ;5oi T;SI -.
fEom that whisb y ! ! - :, ,
and even TO this gener,,IiI,r ,i,sI o.
have had so much .eSxnsriehce. THss2S
hear.1 1t will be. I belteves mn A,,tr;..1,5 ~
Grnlies-dn 4rlsried of din i613ac lG,, 1,,.:s
tca of rSpaL Sidtes-aad D,a1eiD.l-;na 4 Oh;
nets-Gn America of frsousnt t,trbuiescs mn
probably of FREQUENT 1oqr. FHear baa : ~
Such is the glad prospect which has
made every champion Of Desbotisn1 sn5
Caste in the Old World the instinctive nor1
tisan of the Shareholders rebellion Z FSTiS
+ II must never be foraottoh mar IF o,a
were aver 80 willing 10 Iet the raIsis 80
they are firmly resolved not to 90 wifhOut
taking large and impoFtant dS ots tSe
most Iovai sections II rhe coSoIry alrs, ~
with them Tbav sc6nt tbe i5ea ~ Sl.sals ,,,Sus
din5 10 ns be[6ic East Tsnnsssss l - 80 .,
adiecent Mountain re9ion nj NorSbf Go ~; ~
pa. where SLAVERY and rsbeiiion haze 80 ~
other foothold than sasb as has bseH
achieved by ruthless military force Tbrset
fourths Of the people of that Swfizeris IN
of the South. are Unionists; Yet thsy are
.hnnted ibronDb ,voods a IA I,
en- as conscripts INTO the armies of JsF
Davis, where ia battle a ltne of desnsrsin
and reckless traitors is drawn mn hsbinJ
the lighting columns. with m6skets ieyeln5
to shoot down ali who would seek saFstv
in flight. Such are the ttlibeFtv" and
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