Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-02-25
Comfort fol. the Croak.r,,

teas prospects,. -
Comfort for the CroGkors.
It is a thing worthy of note, that while
theicroakers and copperheads of the North
complain of the tneficiency with which the
war has been managed, tho rebels do not
agree with them. We have before "a an
article from the Richmond Enquirer Of
the 10th of February, in which the rebel
view of the question is given at length,
aud we deem it important enough to lay
before our readers in our most conspicuous
column.
THIRD STAGE OF THE WAN.
eve have fairly entered upon the third
stage indicated by the President in his
message, namely: that of war for subiu.
CATION and determination. The people of
this COnfederacy, isolated and shut up
from all the world, have now to encounter
the most horrible and demoniGc effort for
the assassination Of whole race that his.
tory bias yet recorded. or we believe will
everIhave to record tillh istory grows gray.
For it is not every century, it is not every
colI that shows the world Yankee ma.
ton. Yes, the Confederate people has
now at last to strip for battle; it is a PEG
pie that must this time very literally con-
quer or die.
i'No doubt it would he agreeable to be.
lieTe that this last stage Of the War will be
soon over, and must end in the speedy de.
structiou Of our intending murderers But
look round the map of the C0nfederacy.
and judge If we eau soothe ourselves with
this belief. Ia the very heart of the couu.
l - 1T
Try our gallant sentinel Of the Mississippi
I-herolc lGItlS VicEsburg-- has sustaiued,
,nqeeh, ana oSthed TWO tremendous sieges;
Out third time her citizens see pouring in
around them from the North and from the
mfse enormous masses OF the beleSguer-
! !, zoe IRON Hoat'ng' batteries again crowd
1oWn upon neF sn3' even as you read
suFse MGFu9, t"o nuh9reo heavy guns may
90 numbering upon her detences, hum
storm OF her ramparts. Again she will
drive them of, perhaps. and remain the
famous maiden city ofthis hemisphere, the
on!kwark OF the West; so be it out Tie
Vis'on "e see on me .NISsiSSiPpi does not look
very axe efh0"'t'oH or despair on the part Of
| '"S zoe 2Hst get'
anu again. look TO the mouth Of the
m'ghty river. New Orleans is not maid
en C'.y' alas the base rag that has so
olFen oeen rent and tranPled before Rich
In9uu ahu before Elcks6urg flies from all
tne towers OF that dedowered city,
hordes oil hungry Yankees, armed to the
'eeth' SIT IN the shade of her orange
groves, and station negro guards over the
mansions OF her noblest citizens. All the
0est aud talrest have to lament every day
'hat tneir goodly city had not been laid III
ashes before It became haunt Of obscene
creatures. No stgH q relaxation there -
Aqu' out short way oft, Mobile, by the
Sopses OF her Spacious bay, keeps dlligent
"Atcn Snd ward, expecting, in the light of
each morning sun, 10 see The thrice.accur.
smoke of bombardiug squadron. All
eS0"9 me cur and round tie coast of Flor.
I'd' ka'S o"1"ipreseHt enemy, ,cho is said to
ACRE just 6esH playing his last card, Is ,Autfia0
up ererN river and planting ais Guns on Sr.,S,
'ETonS place:
Savannah, shut in from the sea nv Fort
Pulaski, in the hands of the same inyste.
rate Yankee, listens for the 6rst boom of
tne artillery that ia to level her walls with
her sandy soil; and Charleston. primIv
calm, but with beating heart, stands VR;f.
ing the onset of the great armada. These
few acres of Old Oyster Point. II seems
already swept and devastated nv conf1ol
Grations, are to be the object and the nri2s
of the most potent armament by. fSr p thas
American waters have ever seen Th;s
very moment, 1t may be. The blscS NILS. uls
batteries are .steamiug between Snmts'
and Moultrie. No signs of relaxation =.
of encouragement and despair in tho ana.
my here! Pass further, and ron viii end
tho whole coast from Charleston - - NV aHH
toiE' aud every river to the head of tide
y Rnd every creek and sound formed
~ the sea Islands, swarming with their
masses of troops wherever there IL " Sbana 10