Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-05-08


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lsS 4 ReOm the baltimore American g.
} tA}HIOre Stringent Policy Indicated
and Wanted.
There are unmistakable signs at last thai
the officers of the Federal Government in.
tend no longer to daily with the agencies
arrayed for the attempted destruction Of
the Union. General B1rnside's recent
"order,n SO stringent. against traitorous
sympathizers in his new department, is
e@ulated by the officer Commanding a,
Nashville under General Rosecrans, who,
it is stated, has compelled some thousands
of traitorous citizens there to take the oath
of allegiance on the eepenaltysoGI leaving for
the inside of the Rebel lines. In;truth, all
arouud the Gordon which now shuts in
Rebeldom as with line of fire indications
are abundant that traitors aregto be com .
PEELED to. silence or5to an affiliatfon prdcti-
eGlly with that rebellion they have thus
far been privileged to encourage from q
safe distance. In this new policy and new
action loyslEmsn see not oRly just retri-
button for the encouragement afforded to
bIOodshed and invasion of loyal territory,
fbut they see in it, besides, convincing
proof that the Government is atlength'de.
termined todose no chance of strengthen
ing the Union cause by rendering harm
less, or forcing to an emigration, those
lovers of3treason who, too cowardly or too
selfish to takeup arms with the traitors
South, have abused to wicked purposes the
privilege Of q residence in the loyal States
so readily accorded to them hitherto by an
/ over iudalgent Government.
- And why the National Government
should have SO long failed to recognize
and pursue with just punishment these
enemies Of their country, is something re.
markable. In no other civilized country
on earth would the same impunity have
been conceded to crimes of the highes,
grade, to offences which have reddened
the land with gore, and plunged it in sor-
row and loss without limit. Whilst the
country mourns it's almost unnumbered
dead, aud is compelled to look at the des.
olation of Thousands of homes along the
borders, on every side have been met the
faces of heartless traitors, exultant at any
revefses to the Union arms, shameless in
! the expression of their hopes that the best
Government on eafth-the very Govern.
ment which has protected them in the
\ peaceful enjoyment of theirlives and prop.
etty-might yet be destroyed by the
traitors in arms. q 5f5 ~ 66as lt.l-5s5
Not thus has 1t been with the accursed
and blood-stained usurpation at Richmond
The career of crime so recklessly entered
. upon there has balked at nothing copsid.
4 cred essential to the achievement of THE
gigantic wickedness attempted; and so ii
has been that the loYesof the Union has
been pursued as crime of the worst hue,
to be folloNed.up by imprisonment in filthy
dungeons, by shooting, hanging, seques
tratiou of property and all else that could
be devised by diabolieal ingenuity to crush
ont love of country and Of free institutions
Tell any oneof thelgang of sympathizerl
here of the doings Of their congeners a,
Richmond, of the policy-eudiug in rob.
berry. expatriation, or mprdsr-pu pursued
and the complaintiu return would be loud
that the Government in Washington did
not readily enough find. loophole fol
treason to creep through in recognizing the
issuance Of the writ of ha6sdS corpus. &c
through the whole black catalogue of. theil
guilt in like manner, and yirtuous indig.
nation and surprise would be manifested
that the National. Government should pre-
sume SO far as to defend itself against tn,
yilest and most loathsone treaehery car
ried forward through every guise, of per
jury abhorred both of God and man.: =
j We repeat the assertion, that these trai
torous sympathizers on this side of th,
border have farcd much better than thei
conduct has deserved. Except for The mos
lagtant misdoiug have they been molestet
at all, eitherfin person or properly; and
the Government has at times, as laszSi
Louis, Nasb5Hle, and New Orleans, assesse,
4 wealthy ttaitors:for the partial support o
the families Of ,nsR psdsC dupes by them o
forced into the rebsl ranks, it has been bu
sIehsinhiStidR Zoe. lie vttiioE vttii sdness9 tbsg !
have msuifestsds Orsthe evil anda suffering
theY have csussd.,a6W t5a i5 81 go
I.stus pemembsrs sthatns thessfrst fruits
accrued to the rebel. leaders as the c6nss
qusnee ofthe revolt was the eoniscatoi
ofpropsrty-belanging to lOyalAmen,el else
where Aof two or thtss hdndred million
Of dollars How little has the Go1ernnen
yet done TO "balauee the account and;hoy
! much has. it 70 do to.eompeasateilo oyalmsl
for the Fqin which hial ]. .6ss visited then. iaE 8