Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-08
Hope from outslde TsellaquiIshed.
From the RichmOnd Examiner, july 81.

OF serm0ns 90 cents zach. uOuvll-'59
Hope from Outside RelIhq uJshed.
/ From the Richmond Examiner, July 81.
Some Coufederates are evidently toe
sauguio even yet after all their experiences
and 'disappointments, Of the war being
somehow stopped at an early day through
I the agency of causes and iufueGces acting
outside Ofourselves. Now it is to be an
archy and bankruptcy in the enemy's
country; and again it is to he the interest,
the imaginary interest, of England and
France in arrestiug the struggle, rather
than suffer it to end iu the subjugation of
| the Confederacy and the rebuilding of the
formidable Federal Union. 1t would
be pleasant to believe that some of these
influences, or all of them together, were
likely to work in our favor SO decisiVely
that peace and independence are now as
sured to US, without much further trouble
or effort on our own part. But we much
fear that these hopes, like 50 many others,
are fallacious; and further that it is perni-
cious and enervating-every, way demoral.
iSinS to our people-to dwell upon them
and count upon them, as many are dispos-
ed to do. q, rn-FF 2FF4
The Dispatch of yesterday exclaims:- =
"Will the western powers Of Europe per-
nit the Union to- be restored? To this
question we answer Neysr;;" and the writer
proceeds to prefgure the enermous poPu-
lation and power to which the reconstruc-
ted Union would attain in given number
OF years--a population of 100000, 900, nm
army of 4 600 900, navy OF 10, ,06o steam
ers-Rnd demands What nation 'oo"!d dare
to assert its most indUJitabLe rights an pres
ence of it?" HLet the Union be restored, and
France teiu be driOen from Merico, aohiie
Great Britain may ind IL impossible TO hold
Canada"
Again the SsHtineI of yesterday with no
lees confidence prouounces
at is manifest that n neitherlF France, Eng
lapd5 MOI Spain would psrmt reeonstrra-
ton Of. the UpIop which would .enuauger
tneit possessions ia Canada, 7Cuoa, ana
Mexico, and lead to II revival of the Monroe
doctrine" -'i-1
Indeed the Sentinel takes SO cheerful
view Of the outside agencies now at work
in our favor that it can point to several.
any one of which is sufficient to save us
from subjugation. 1t declares that ''the
negro imbroglio alone would suffice to
break down his (Lincoln's) war and his
administration.
We know and acknowledge that these
journals have no intention to recommend
any relaxation of our own exertious at
homo-the only means we have yet found
I,
our only hope, as we believe, in the future.
They do not inteLd it yet this frequent
harping upon the favorable events which
they presume will arise for US, somewhere
outside of ourselves, must surely have the
effect of, in some measure, unstringing the
| national nerve, producing sense of false
security, and abating that proud spirit of
desperate resistance, even unto death,
which alone can make nation invincible.
If northern anarchy and bankruptcy, and
NEGRO imbrogios" are SO soon to brenk
down our cnemy's power-if the plain in
terests of France and Eogland are so sure
ly to inpel them to work out our indepen-
deuce on their own account-then what
need of those Vigorous preparations for
! local defense and for state defense? What
need to call out and bring away from their
business and their homes all the men be /.
tween forty aud forty five. t.,.fsrg.
In the first place, the threatened anarchy
and bankruptcy in the northern country
have been produced by nothing else in the
world but by our desperate aud successful
resistance. If the Irish rise in iusurrec
ton against the draft it is because the
confederates have slaiu SO mauy of them
in battle, aud are believed to be able aud
willing to slay q, great many more. 1t is
because they tnaVe not got those southern
estates they were promised, ,and have no
prospect Of acquiring southern property,
seeing that the right owners keep them
out II the finances of LincOln's govern
Iment are ierauged, and their credit dam
aged, ii is because we have hitherto rem
dered it impossible to turn confscated
southern plantations into a fund for de-
fraying the expenses OF the war. But if
the enemy should ever consent to a peace
| on the basis of our separate Independence
then the anarchy and the bankruptcy.
which are now only threatened, pirtial
and contingent, would become real, sweep
| ing and universal. Every thoughtful man
| at the North is couvincedthnt IN such case
there would be immediate disruption and
disintegratiou of the remaining fragments
of the Union; that the Northwest would
separate itself from New England, and
seek the alliance of the Confederacy; that
the whole debt would be instantly repu-
dated, and a green dollar would not be
worth red cent. In other words, it is
the war, the trdr Itself with ever SO faint
a hope of ultimate success, which is saving
| that county for the present from anarchy
and bankruptcy. That anarchy and that
bankruptcy. are coming, but we must
have conquered alpeace before they come.
Theimminence of those ,cslamities, far
from tending 70 stop the war, makes tue
continuance of the war an absolute neces-
sity. The war alone saves society rom a
disastrous break up; and, therefore, our
enemies cannot part with the war on any
account. To be sure war costs them dear;
but peace they cannot afford at any price.
If these views be correct, there is but
\ slender hope of q speedy peace based on
4 troubles in the enemy's country. -.
/ AS for European powers and their sup
posed intentions and interests, it is singu-
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