Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-11


tlemen, pride in all those habitudes An,
instincts which separate US 80 imtneasura
bly, from the peddling and swiudling Yam
kee nntion-all this pride has been openly
cherished and ayowed, 10 all simplicity
and good faith, and We have a Thousand
/ times blessed God that secession, separa
ton, war itself, have come in good time t.
save our children from being debased b.
contact with an order of beings whom il
our souls we disdainsd.
| Now, if we should be conquered by thosi
| Yankees2 If for want Of steady perseVer.
ance TO the end our country should become
| the subiugated province, our children the
serfs, our women and maidens the hand
maids of that despised pack of plebeial
| peddlers How would the naughty south
ern danes relish this destiny2 With What
eyes would they look upon any confederate
man between sixteen and sixty who might
then be still above ground, unWounded and
in health Aud these men, where would
they 60 to hide their shameful faces Whist
mountains. would they call on to cover
them2 Earth has no shade deep enough
to conceal them; hell no furnace hot enough
to scorch them But we cannot dwell upon
this sort of picture; there will be no such
men surViVing--uOnO at least deserving
that name.
Tho President appeals to the women of
the confederaey, and with good reason ;
for not even the men have so deep and
dread an interest in this affair as they have.
Men can at least fight to the last aud die,
aud have done with it. Even the towards
can at least dy to other countries, change
their shameful names, spend their vile
gains, and "peep about TO fiHd themselves
dishouOrable graves" But the women can
neither hght nor fy. They must follow
the fortu1es of the country, and if it be
subdued By the Yankee nation. must only
bow their proud heads to their destiny,
and take The fate to which the men will
have left them. Many may be employed as
governesses TO teach small Yankees; many,
owing to their experience in ruling negro
may get service as hOusekeep-
ers in their own houses to superintend
their own slaves for their new Mistress
Some may be fancied as concubines by
Yankee dry goods merchants who have
turned brigadiers or quartermasters.
We do assure the women of the COnfed-
crate States that iu these pictures is no
color of exOggeration. The President.
who never exaggerates, stated plainly
what the euemy's success in this war
means. "Their malignant rage aims at
nothing lees than the determination of
yourselves, your wives and children. They
seek to destroy what they cannot plunder.
They propose, as the spoils of victory, that
your homes shall be partitioned among the
whose atrociOus cruelties have
infamy upon their goVernment.-
No alternative is left you
but victory or subjugation and utter ruin"
Just so. this is precisely the alternative
here is. n2 middle ground % rest upon.
Either We SO up and oursenemies dotcH, or
rice reTsd. No wonder an appeal is made,
then, to the women to aid US in this crisis.
None have so momentous an interest; and
none, as we firmly believe, WELD SO much
power. They can do moro for US this day
than the President with all his couscriPt
guards, than governors with their militia
calls, or General Lee with his appeals to
The stragglers. They know those strag-
glers, one by one, and where they are TO
be found They, the mothers and sisters,
may, if they will, be couscript guard i'm
possible to be eVaded. They know whose
furloughs are out, whose wounds are heal
ed, who are lingering idly about home or
about the springs, boasting of the perils
they have PASSED, Philandering and max
ing love, while far away on some northern
field the bronzed veterans of the old army
1E0 uAG66luk AoANl ~ law NAS
storm of battle, and bearing high aloft
their uncouquered confederate crossi and
as their great and devoted general gazes
along the lines his eye beams with pride
in those who are at their post, and flashes
With indignation to think that so many are
not there. Every man is missedi every
man has his own place to fill and his own
work to do, his own crown Of glory to
win, or his own honorable grave to fill.
Will not the women help US, then, to set |
avery man in his place Will they not
refuse 80 much as to speak to any one who
evades his duty We all know that they,
BY combining together, can drive all strag-
ylers at once to the field (; they can make
existence intolerable to those who stay
but to those who go and do the depoir of
gallant gentlemen they can promise para
disc, and keep their word. Now here is
what women can do for Us at this moment
for us for themselves and for MS all.-
Let them but think that everything we are,
Of have, or hope to have or to be, depends
upon our glorious army, and that il is now
standing in the gap of the confederacy once
more, with enormous masses of the ruffian
foe gathering in front and flank for another
and more strenuous blow at the heart of
the country. If our soldieFs do tkeir duty
now they can save tho county and make 1t
The proudest nation upon earth; if not,
better Tor them they had never been born l
"cUR HEIRS FoRsvEs."
From the Richmond enquirer of Thursday.
If any short. sighted confederates, or fee
BILE knees and palIid liVers, have been de-
ludiug themselves with the idea that in
case of subjugstion by our enemy, the
worst that could happen to US would be
merely to go back into the "Union as it
Was, with the 'Coustitution as it is," &C.,
it ia time for them to awake from that
dream. For us, in case OF being overcome
in the field, there is to be no Constitution