Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-08
The BritIsh ToElss stille olamorlne
for a, DissoIttfqn OF the Union.
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for Ots9olmEAqto OF the Union.
From the London Time5, Nov. 21st. &
The state Of war has rapidly becom
normal in North 4msrica. The spar
dropped on the sup.baFnt prairie has dllel
the.horizon With fire, and one sees.no out
let-not a break iH The wall Of tiame.-
War, having now ratAged Eastern Virginia
will either be continued under much great
} or disadvantages 70 .tas Federal side in TIL
OarolinRs, or on tl1ef comparatively ex-
hausted soil of Pehnsylyanta. On either
side victory only entails greater distance
4 from the basis of 0pttBtious. Meanwhile,
there has started into hidden life militia
II ry class; men Whp taps do n0thing bul
fight, and who haven sOpheF speAt their
pay than they take q bounty. There are
now, on either sid host Of generals aud
men who hope soon 10 show themselves
better generals than any jet tried. There
is an n7aFtstoctaey he created by the
war, coutraCtdtg i1d mahhfa6tuFers Of all
the thibgs WAutsd this most o6hsump.
tive and spendthrif pf wars. EveFyb body
is said to be enriched BY the war, aud no
doubt many tho9l6nds pray that e may
last their time. The old buccaneeFing
spirit is thorough b : aroused, and the sea
now vies with tts land In snddsn pro
dactige6ess aud he ready prize. Glory,
money, power, dtltinetipp, all that dazzles
the crowd is NOT fnng about broadcast.
We do mot hear single protest against
the war on the Ee4eral side on the ground
Of its private and public injuries, for any.
body who can sbeak thinks himself the
better for it Ifihe tide Of war roll north
ward, we shall bear another story; but
then passions viii come to reinforce sell
tallaRa,n of che Ia,
to see their cities besieged and sbOmbaFd.
ed, their homesteads Favaged, their har-
vests destroyed and their fair, country
!madesa deserl, they will find revenge the
master impulse But that revenge they
will have 10 SEEK under enhanced difficult
ties. Nobody can doubt that they will
continue to seek II, but with what sue.
cess, time alone can show,
Dtsabused as We,ah must DO Of our first
hopes as to the early termlGati0n Of the
war, perhaps We are driven by the force Of
reaction TO the other extreme. Yet every
analogy jnstities the worst fears. We can.
not find much fault with the FedeFals II |
they are as long finding out their mistake
as we were 10 years since. Mexico has |
been in . state of civil wpFs diversified by |
foreign interference, for more than 40 |
years. Our own Wars Of the Roses may be |
considered to have lasted 80 years, as also
did the great German war Of 0pinion.-
From the division of the Roman Empire it's
territory Wasifor several centuries the scene
81 an almost incessant struggle between
he so called northern Hbarbartaps' and
he more settled Inhabitants of the South.
There Ts much 70 be said for the rather
lloom5 aut 8 % tienz that North America Is
leginniug her Middle Ages, and that, with
new variety of manners and forms, she |.
will follow the successive stages Of Euro
ieanF gtess, aotneS fifteeni handled year5
lehind. What Is There - make peace
There is no third Power to intervene at the
Iappy juncture and meFcifully compel the
to accept the best terms. Both Il
IellfgerAnts have been taught to regard MS
b aliens and inttuders. Hitherto the two
ides have been singnlarly balanced, for If
numbers and money have been on one side,
PERSONAL strength, generalshfpi and national
entiment have been on the other. Oar old
history tells us that the latter always COM
titute the winning side, and it Is 1t least
Iif1cnlt TO conceive that they will in this
Ase be the characteristics of losers.
The Americans sthemseISes are begin
ling to look forward very far, and with q
strangely at variance with
heir first feelings. There are federalists
Who see that it will take at least twenty
ears to exterminate the Confederates, bat
vho are prepared TO spend twenty years in
hat rltnous mission, tnasmuch as it will 4
AXE at least thirty years TO bring the North
d consent to disunidn, or any peace based
b separation. This certainly implies q
ruel idea of'humau existence, and the OBJ.
ects for which this fair earth was created.
I Is admitted that so far as regards per-
onal suffering the prospect is as gloomy
or one side as the other. Both North and +
;outh are to perish; but as the North, tits
aid, has the longer tail Of the two, in its
continual immigration and its populous
II will have still q remnant when
lothing At all is left Of the other combat
ant. Nor is this simply the ferocity of Ii
IN antagonist whoNis content TO perish
himself II he can drag the other down with
lin. There Is calculation as well as feel.
nE in the prophecy Of universal wreck.
fI Ithtsisecessiou be acquiesCed in, others
will rapidly follow, and there will be East
md West % we'll as North and South. II
8 the mountain, not rent in twain, but
Jhivered into fragments, which e&cites the
greatest horror in the American mind
Doe missile has "starred" the brittle fab
,ic into fragments, and The American cam
lot see his own loved image in any one of
hem To the European eye this is not SO
consider the division of this continent in. /
Ia, more than dozen considerable States,
besides host of small ones, the best thing |
that could have happened 10 Il. We never |
cease ito congratulate ourselves that the
Roman Empire broke mp, Charlemagne's |
scheme of universal empire died with him.
self, that all the attempts made to weld |
England and France into one monateby !
we're finally fruitess, aud that Napoleon,s |
gigantic lenterprise recoiled on his own
head. OF course, such dis6ppointments
are intoleFahle 20 the authors of these
grand ideas. Il feqHifes some hIlesophy
tolbear being beaten py REBELS and cine
yaders;;' aud loyali Eng glishmen were very
IN 1852, as French Imparialists
were fn 1914. No uation can seeits unity