Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-26
NEWS FRom TnR soUTn.
rur PRESIDENT, GEN. LEE, AND THE NEWS
PAPERS.
From the Richmond sentineI'

PhFBHS'
From the Richmond Sentinel.
The President tells us he wants more
men. In his agony for more men ne ap-
peals to the ladies for help, ana grams
general amnesty to all deserters-auVer-
Using the said amnesty Tor twenty consec-
utive days in every newspaper IN the Eou-
General Lee appears to be of the same
mind with the President. He, too, wants
more men. He calls upon all his officers
and men to Join their respective regiments
without moments delay, and even APP
peals to the people of the several States to
send forth every man capable of bearing
arms.
One would suppose that two such high
authorities would be apt to know what
they are talking about But the neWspa-
pers. including the Presidents own dear
organs are diligently engaged day after
day in assuring US that the Yankee draft
is a dead failure the Yankee armies vast
ing away by disease, assertions, and explr-
ing enlistments; that Lees army is numer-
ically greater than Meade's, and that Lin
coin is on his last legs, in military point
of view.
Which are we to believe-the President
and Gen. Lee, or the newspapers we
can't believe both, for II the newspapers
are to be needed there is no need for an
other man in our armies. All we nave TO
do is to stand perfectly still and see Lin
coins legions vanish into thin air. Then
we will march to Boston without the slight
est Inconvenience of interruption. And
we will BIO nblo to do thatnext fall.
This Is no time to trifie with the people.
They are not arrant fools Their spirits
are not to be kept up by conflicting state
ments. They know that the new conscrlp-
aion of men to forty-fve, and the call OF
the President and the appeal of General
Lee, do not tally with the sanguine articles
of the newspapers. What they want Is
not delusive hopes, but the assurance that
the President intends. to act with wisdom
and energy.
We do want more men. The Yankees
are trying to play another trick on u.s.
Just before the battle of Charlottesville
they assured us that Hooker's army was
only 10000 strong. and just before Grant
captured Grand Gulf they assured us that
there would be no more general engage
ments during the war. Reliable gantle-
men, who had been through the Northwest,
brought news that peace and an allegiance
with tho ConfederRcy were positively dee
termined on.
They are trying to fool US again. Reli-
able gentlemen, "iust returned from Wash
ington," arrive almost daily within our
lines, to assure US that Meade is "recelv-
ing no reinforcements, except few negro
regiments" ETC., etc. We have had enough
of this stnff to satisfy even the Admins
tration. This is the calm before the storm.
That storm will not wait for the dog days
to expire. Meade is constantly being re-
inforced and SO is Rosecrans, and the first
thing we know Lee will be attacked on
both TANKS, East Tennessee invaded by
forty thousand men, and Mobile invested
by way of Pascagoula. The house must
be set in order, and kept 80, for the storm
will soon burst in all its fury.
THE VOLUNTEERS N vY.
When afloat there is little Or no danger of
these vessels being captured or interrupt
ed, if wisely managed, and the cruising
grounds be away from our coast, and out
of the usual track of Yankee war steam :
ers. OF the feathered bipeds that cause
such perturbation in the fowl yard, not
one in thousand is deHEoycd by the un-
feathered bfped's gun; f5r he "keeps his
weather eve OPEN" sW6ops to his prey,
ana is off like shooting star. So with
our a-hawks, and eagles in the illimitable
wastes of ocean. Always on the watch,
aud swooping to their prey, and swift as
the wind, they may roam for years
without molestatiou, and sweep the
enemy's commerce from the seas as with
bosom of destruction. Even the con-
spicuous Alabama and Florida, observed
of all the world, and the special object of
Mr.. Doodle's rage, and of pursuit by his
cruisers, have never yet been overtaken or
met against their will. How much more
will privatears of all rigs and sizes escape,
cruising out of range of the enemy's war
steamers, never seeking, but avoiding
fights, and having the heels of race
horse2
Our Government and citizens should use
every exertion in this behalf, and even if
We lose all the land except enough to af'
ford sovereignty a resting place, these
ships ought still to be put to sea; for they
may, and probably will, largely contribute
to our salvation.
If we put forth all our efforts-the en-
deavors of patriots-Whever we can help
the cause, we will prevail, and the signs
are all in our favor. A united and deter
mined people, in such country, and
fghtiug for such cause, can never be
s1bdued. Moreover, God fights for us
time fights for as the elements for US
circumstances fight for us; the moral
sense of the world is a host in our favor.
AN ISSUE.
As the issue presented in the following,
from the Sentinel, of Monday, involves a
historic point of some interest, we transfer
it to our columns, and will let the reader
know what comes of it:
THE CHARLESTON MERCURY VS.. THE PREsI-
DENT.
No charge has been more persistently,
and at the same time more unjustly, made
against the President, than that he pre-.
vented an advance by our armies after the
first battle of Manassas. The charge has
been denied and abnndantly disproved.-
We thought that no one would have the
hardihood to repeat it; but we find we were