Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-31
morgun,s Raid and some Reflections
Upon H.

We have recently lad this community
thrown into great excitement on account OF
Aorgan's raid. Men of ali parties have
either voluntarily or inyoluutarily shout
dered arms and turned out to defend the
CITY. On the other side of the river men
of all parties have done the same thing
No odds what mems sentiments were, pub
lie opinion, backed up by militia military
power, has compelled them to show hos
tiIi.v to the raid. Doubtless those who
involuntarily and unwilIingly turned out,
have on account of their secret sympathies
with the rebels, retained to their same old
cnrping and caviling at the Government, ar
rnigniug its policy, deridiug its purposes,
belittIiug its victories and undermine g its
hold on the estimation OF the people. ltis.
strange, but it is nevertheless true that
men who within few days past have
had muskets in their hands ready to deal
out death to Johu Morgan's men. should,
now that he is captured, return again to
their old vocation of aiding and abetting
the very cause in the interest of which
Morgan undertook his raid. They deny any
sympathy with Morgan's raid when they
are rebuked for their principles and yet
all their conversation, all their criticism,
all their favoritism, mother words, all their
influence, is dead against the Union
Cause and in practical alliance with Nor
gan. II it be true that this administration
is corrupt unscrupulous, perjured, false to
its pledges, the cruel oppressoreo of citizens,
the hater of the rigbts of the people, the
usurper of fearful and unWarranted pow
ers, the designing destroyer of the Con-
stitution, then Morgan did right in invad
ing the States OF Indiana and Ohio and
in trying to get here to Wheeling. Why !
should any man shoulder rDusket to shoot
Morgan, since Morgan is simply trying to
break down the power of odious tyrAnts,
resistance to whom sis obedience to God"
Men who spend half their time each day |
denouncing the government for all that Is
execrable and infamous should be consist
ent, and not in one breath decry Morgan
and in the next uphold the cause for which
he is fighting. There is no difference
between Lees cause aud John Margau's.-
The latter is just as reputable, so far as
his military character is concerned, as the
former The size of their respective com
mauds Is the only difference between
them. Lee invaded Pennsylvania with
one hundred thousand men; his soldiers
took all the horses, cattle and plumber they
could obtain. Morgan invaded Indiana
with 5000 men, and he also seized ail5the
horses aud plumber that he could handle
or dispose of He and Lee stand on per-
feet equality they are equal before the
rebel Government; they have their com
missions rs Generals from under the same
sign manual; there is, then, no difference
between themH Why then denouuce MOT
gan's raid Its success, so far as Il had
any, was like the success of Lee, so far as
he had any, but the advancement of the
principles held by the class of citizens to
whom we refer. If Morgan bad succeeded
better than he did no doubt his raid
would have been more reputable in
the eyes Of the rebels both north
and South. Tho fact that il was not
success, aud that cause only, has seemed
pathizers with the rebellion. Such talk
as theirs is simply foolishuess, and besides
it is cowardly. Why not stand up to Nor
gan just as we'll as TO Lee, or Bragg, or
Pemberton, or Stuart, the other great
raiders. They are all engaged in one
cause, aud they all will stand fall to-
gether. And, moreover, they are all en-
-. Il hot
ment which their sympathizers here say is
so odtOus and oppressive. What is the
use then in taking up gun to shoot Nor
gan. and at the same time justifyiug in the
strongest possible terms the cause in which
he is enlisted There are but two ways
of viewing this whole matter: Either
our government, with all the imperfections
of any accidental four years administra-t u
ton, is worth preserving or is is not.
Scarcely ever more than oue-half of the
country agrees that any admiuistra-
ton is good QUE. Mr.. Lincoln's is far
more acceptable to the people than any
Que, except Mr.. Fillmore's, forsthe last
twenty years. The country day has
more confidence in him than it ever bad
in Tyler, Polk, Pierce orBuchanan. More
people to-day, 10 the loyal States, believe |
in his qualities of head and heart. Not
one man in a hundred is ever heard saying
that he does not believe that Mr.. Lincoln
is honest, and that he is honestly trying
to deliver the Union. No doubt he mates
blunders, for is he not human ? Buthe.isi
in a position. that 10 man ever soccppi led
in this country. Seldom has any ruler
in the history of this world Occupied
such a position. just think OF, i'll