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

WE give SO another column this morning
an interesting summary OF the disasters
that have overtaken the Rebel cause with
in the last few weeks, and for which the
loyal people of this county had most
abundant reason to give deVout thanks on
Thursday last. The tsree great victories
of Grant, Banks aad Meade, the surrender
of Tennessee by Bragg, the capture of
Mozgau's narauders, and the demoralized
=e.reat of Lee. are events which, if they do
not iuflict an Immediately fatal blow on
the rebellion, yet they show by implication
that the vitality of the Southern army is
fast ebbiug out The losses of men sus-
tanned during the month of July-tO say
nothing of the equally important losses of
vital strategic positions-m1sG cripple be-
yond all recovery the military movements
of the enemy. These losses have been in
dicted too, on the enemy, Singular to say,
jast after our armies have been depleted of
their best men By the expiring OF the short
LeEmA OF enlistment, which still more strik-
ingIy shows the incompetency of the renshs
20 stay the progress of our srnies.
So seriously has the relative strength, of
the opposed armies 10 the Southwest been
changed by these losses, that tho zholo of
that section is now at our uepcy. We
have but to go up and possess the country,
for there is no force competent to dispute
our progress.
This new phase of affairs presents the
rebellion in a aoIs hopeless aspect than. ID
has yet appeared. and suggests the qqSs-
Eiou-what next?
Peace men ind in the situation an srgu-
nent for the President making pacific
OVertares to the arch-rebel; mean lshile the
Richmond editors are affirming the infiex-
ible resolution of the SoutheEaers rather
TO perish than again affiliate with
the North in the same Union. Jeffer-
son Davis, so far from yislding to despair
under the changed prospects of his cause,
meets the emergency by ordering the con-
scription of every man within his reach
capable of 6eaEisg arms, u measure that
certainly does .sot SAVIOR of any Immediate
disposition 20 yield. This desperate re-
sort shoBld of itself be q sufficient answer
To every sort of white feather argument.
es an argument for relaxing the rigor of
the CONSUMPTION. Say they-"Our late
successes have given us such a numerical
advantage over the rebels, that our armies
no longer need recruitiugi let the Presir
dent, therefore, order an immediate Sag
nension of drafting, so obnoxious to barge
class of citizens" This plea simply aeans
that we are again to court that OVerween-
log sense of security that has been the
baue of eur military preparations through
uot the war. We haze only just begun to
apply the safe rule of greatly outuumber-
ing the rebels, and our late successes are
the first fruits Of that policy. The rebel
couscription may bring one hundred and
fifty THOUSAND more men into the tield-
which. however it may otherwise injure tbs
South, will for time materially augmsoi
the strength of the instruction, and there.
fore calls for "a corresponding increase OF
our own numbers.
the next step, therefore, is to- enforce the
CONSUMPTION with all possiblO speed, and to
such an extent as to put not less than two
hundred thousand men into the held. We
cannot afford to wait for what might come
out of tae Slow process of volunteering
we cannot risk the uncertainty of raising
the required number by regular enlistment.
Ii 400, 900. men are promptly couscripted,
we shall overmatch the augmented num-
bers of the enemy, and be enabled to press
forward, with comparatively feeble anG
transient opposition, to universal victory
To the question theu-after such splendid
successes, what next? the answer is, EN-
FoRcE rHE DRAFT. By that process the
early defeat of the rebellion would be GER
tAinly eusued; by less vigorous polio!
its existence would be dangerously pro
tracted.