Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-23

Ohio to the Rio Grsnde, to have ana 10
hold, them aud their heirs forever.
But, on the other hand, what We mean
TO win is utter separation from them ZOE All
time. We do not want 70 govern their
country, but after levying upon it what
seemeth good to us by way OF indemnify,
we leave it to commence its Pohncat me
again from the beginning. hoping tnat 1ne
lesson may have made them sadder anu
wiser Yankees.
We shut them out forever, with all their
uuclean and scoundrelly ways, intendlng
to lead our lives here in our Own Vonted.
crate way, within our own we'll guarded
bounds, and without, as st. John says are
dogs.
And let no Confederate feeble knees and
tremulous backbone say to US, this COM
plete triumph is impossible; say that We
must be content with some kind of com.
promise, and give and take; on the contrary
we must gain all or lose all, and that the
Confederates will indeed win the giant
game, we take to be as certain as any tu-
ture event in this uncertain world.
Meade's army and Rosecrans once scat
tered, Lincoln can get NO more armies.
The draft turns out manifestly fruitless.
Both the German aud Irish elements are
now for peace. The Yankees have 10 bear
the brunt of the war themselves, but In
the meantime their inevitable bankruptcy
is advancing like an armed man. Hungry
ruin has them in the wind. II cannot be
I'long before the Cabinet at Washington will
have, indeed, to consider seriously proPo.
sails for peace, under auspices aud circuul-
stances very different from the present.
For the present the war rolls and thunders
on, and may God defend the right"
ABJEor POSTURE OF LABOR AND LABoRBRs.
The Richmond Examiner, of the l2th
inst, says that on Saturday, the 10th instr
very large aud spontaneous meeting of
the mechanics and workingmeu of
Richmond was held to consider their
interests aud obtain free expression Of
the sentiments of the people generally.
From the resolutions passed, we select
the two following:
ResoLUed, That awakened to a sense of
the Rbject posture to which labor and we
who labor have been reduced, and to the
privileges which as citizens and people the
institutions OF our country vest in US, we
will not sleep again until our grasp has
firmly clepched the rights aud immunities
which are ours as Americans aud men
until our just demands have been met by
the concessions of all OF posing elements.
A6CoCNVgSSt
ernment to take care Of the unfortunate,
and not the rich.
The Enquirer is extremely indignant at
this assembIage, and deals with the "work-
ing men" in the following fashion:
"The mechanics of Richmond enjoy all
the rights aud immunities' that any and
every other man enjoys, and they will not
be permitted to grasp and 'clench' any
more, We hope the Legislature of vir-
giuia will not permit itself to be influenced
by such minatOry resolutions to pass law
forbidden by the experience of all history
and opposed by the teachings of every
public economist, and which is now OPP
posed by some of the Rblest aud wisest
men of their own body. The men who
compose the armies of the Confederaey
have, for the last two years, permitted all
their rights and immunities' to be most
materially circumscribed, their privileges
reduced TO the one high and holy privilege
of shooting and being shot for their coun.
try. These men, without shoes, blankets,
proVisions-in want aud suffering with
wounds, aud even unto death have nobly
aud CALAMITY borne all these haFdships,
unmurmurinR and pucomplaininS. Upon
what are these sleepless resolutippists to
fix their 'grasps'? We leave the Governor
and Mayor to answer these questions, aud
TO interpret these resolutions, and to de-
eide what their respective duties may be
when tho 'grasping' and 'cIeuching' begins.
The question of fixing prices of maTi-
mum is one of reason aud discussion. The
Mob-Jacobin violence of Paris forced it
through the Convention OF 1893, and this
meeting of Saturday night looks as though
the same influence was TO be resorted to
in Richmond. Mrs. jackson demanded
blood for bread at the Governors house
last Spring, and failing to get either there
proceeded with her myrmidou yiragos to
grasp aud clench bread aud shoes and
leather and every other article from the
merchants of Richmond. She took the
extortioners into her own hands, aud is
now meditating upon the vanity of vio-
Ience in the State Penttentiary. The wo-
mans mob was even more ridiculous than
criminal-but jury Of Richmond pun
ished the leaders with confinement in the
Peniteutiary. The Governor of Virginia
threatened to FIRE on the women, and would
have executed his threat had they not dis
banded"