Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-24
North Carolina and the Rebellion.


we published yesterday. We do not hest
tate to say that it is, by all odds, the mos
important publication since this war com
menced. It reveals, as nothing else has
the electricity with which the whole Soutl
has become charged, and which is destini
ed ere long to blow '.the Confederaey'
into atoms, and to consume all Copper
headism from the face of the land forever.
The great consequence of the article lies
not in the fact that it was written by the
Speaker of the House of Commons of the
State, nor that it had the approval OF
Gov Vance, bnt that such concentrated
truth can appear at Raleigh at all. 1t is
not the origin but the publicity that amazes
not the hidden fabrication of the bolt,
but the freedom with which it IS hurled
There is sense of security, sense of
power, an imperial defiance that denotes
mastery of the situation. Where terror
ism, so lately reigned, and mems faculties
of speech, nay of thought itself, were par
alyzed with dread, We now see not only an
absolute fearlessness, but sacred wrath
teemiug with vengeance.
All of the apologies for secession which
the Copperhead journals of the North have
so perslstently put forward are treated
with contemptin Raleigh. What the Union
Press of the North have from the begin
ming maintaIned-that this secession move
ment was without justification, without
excuse, totally wicked aud utterly damna-
ble-the North Carolina journal takes up
and repeats with new emphasis. Instead
bo rir
groveIing toadies of Slavery here feel it
their place to do, it argues to prove it to
be an object of supreme adherence. 1t
presents in terrible array, too, the broken
promises and falsiied representations of
the prime movers of secession-instead of
pedcea6Le secession, ga war such as never
before desolated any country'-instead of
Yankees not fighting, display by the
Yankees of courage and determination
worthy of the descendants of those aus
tere old Puritans, whose heroic spirit
and religious zeal made Oliver Cromwell's
army the terror of the civilized world"-
instead of England and France speedily
recognizing, tnot even show of sympa-
thy'-instead of a new Government,
which should be a mere Oonfederacy
aud scrupuloHs of State rights" a grand
military consolidation, which almost
entirely ignores the existence of the States,
aud disregaIds the decisions of their high
est judicial tribunals"-instead of Slavery
perpetu ted in the States, and extended
into oil the Territories in which the negro
could live, and an Extradition Treaty bet
ter than any Fugitive Slave Law, "Slavery
not perpetuated in the States, nor extended
into the Territories, an act of Emancipa-
ton in Missouri, readiness for such an
act in Maryland, rather than separation
from the Union, and more slaves lost to
the South by flight than would have escap-
ed from their masters in the Union in five
centuries, and the institution for which
they profess to have gone to war, in a
thousand times greater Jeopardy than ever
befOre"-instead of the wealthiest aud best
governmental the world, "a loss forever of
Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee, with AL
ALBANIA probably soon to follow-but five
States out of the original thirteen left !;
aud of these Eve, the Yankees in possess
sion of many of the most important points
and one third of their territory"-and in-
stead of an unbouuded credit upon the
security of King Cotton, 'Fa universal &C.
Acknowledgement that7Cotton is not King" "
and lone of the most influential States il
the. Confederacy discrediting q very large
part of the Confederate currency, and the
Confederate Government itself repudiatinf
to some extent, its most solemn obligal
tons" These are facts as patent as thu
daylight, and there Is no such thing a
evading their force
Not only does the writer not shrink fror
setting forth the unqualified wickednes
and destructiveness of secession, but b
feariessly declares that "the one great de
mand of the people of this part of the Stat
is peace; peace upon any terms that tDiH M
ensldps aud degrade us" Not single syl
liable is uttered against the Confiseatio
p.n =
any other of the measures operating agniu'
Slavery, which the Conperheads of til
North have been so necessarily clamorin
against as the only inseparable obstacle
To reunion. The North Carolinian; risl
above all these miserable property CO..
siderations. Believing peaceto be the on
vital necessity, heais willing to accept
"upon any terms that VIII not enslave az
degrade u.s." There is an elevation
snirit here-as there is through the who
production - infinitely above anythir
cver seen in the creeping Copperheat
of the day;-the same difference tn
nore Is between its straightforward
and their tortuosity; between its generol
apnreciation of Northern valor and the
civ venom; between its fiery denunolatlol
of the secession and their Shiny salyos.
The sort of peace which the halelg
writer declares TO be the wish OF his pee
ne ia nreciseIy the sort of peace whic
alone would be acceptable to the gre
bnSv of the North. Terms that woul
ssenslaye and degrade" no true Norther
man whatever his feelings about slavery
wouid impose, EVENT. he could. Weiwat
M w 1saIs, no payers of tribute, no d
nsnSants or subordiuate of any characte
We want conntrymen, fellow. citiE zen
sbsrers il, our duties, partners IN our PRIV
ilepes. While we purpose to light the 60
emies of the republic 70 the very last e y
tremity, never yielding one hals Is prsaaI I.
and ever pressing upon mem "a ,N S5sa ~ 81
frmer resolution, we yet say ,, ~ s saSs In