Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-17

i It's eN6IClBe WIS pE6VeuIHQ only 0y Tn
frmpess of Governor Vance in resisting
these dangerous encroachmsnts upon stat
rights.
North Carolina has sent seventy.fou
thousand volunteers and fourteen, thOusanu
consCfipts in the field. Has any state don
more2 Eighty eight thousand of her son
are now bearing their breasts to the enemy
or sleep in the graves to which their pa
tTiotism has consigned them. The bone
of her best citizens have bleaChed ON every
battle field from Big Bethel TO OhancelloFs
vile. They have everywhere broken thu
franks Of the enemy, and snatched yictorN
4 from the jaws of defeat. Tney have crowd.
ed the road 70 death as If il were the high
way to festivity and mirth. Yet all thil
has not saved her from insult aud injury
Why IL it that in the appointment Of gen.
erals to command these troops, in many
instances, our own officers were put aside
to give place to those from other Statesi
Why is il that in one Of these appointments
Major General was appointed, who, in an
official communication to Gen. Lee, spoke
of this Legislature in terms of defisi0n as
the ''nleEaOTable" Legislature of North Car
olina? Why are the various post appoint
ments among US Ia the quartermaster and
cOmmissary departments filled by citizens
of other states to the exclusion of our
own Why the attempt, in measure
successful, to force enrolling officers on US
from other states to the neglect Of our
oWn2 And why could there not be found
in all North Carolina a suitable person to
fill the position of chief collector of tithes,
but one must be sent from another state to
unlock our corn cribs aud smoke houses
Why is it that North Carolina is swarm
ing with officials and clerks from other
states, who ought to be In the army fight
ing for the principles they advocate
Why is il that of about fifty hospitals in
the city of Richmond, with more than two
hundred surgeons, there are but three from
this state?
North Carolina had assigned to her un-
der an act Of Congress, approved October
27th. 1852. eight hospitals, containing
(2,236) twenty-five hundred and thirty
Eve beds. Only one Of these, containing
not more than (l60) one hundred and sixty
beds, is under the charge Of a North Caro-
lima surgeon. The divisions of Winder
and ChimbOrazo, assigned to this state,
contain eight or nine hundred beds with
eight or nine surgeons each, every one of
whom is from another state.
Iallude to these things with pain and
sorrow, but do it as a matter of solemn
duty, in defense Of my position upon this
EloOr. ~
FAILURE-APPBAL FOR A
BLACK FLAG.
Richmond correspondence Mobile Tribune.
We must open our eyes to the present
realities Of this war. The war for the pre-
ext of the Union, by the northman, has
passed away. The war for emancipation
las become dissipated 10 the horrors of its
midnight gloom. To-day, it Is q war for
both to bond and free, with
III the savage butchery Of revengefnl
lemon, whose bloody purpose is to de-
Itroy by indiscriminate massacre. The alb
Olition of slavery, according to the human
tariRns of New and Old England means
Our poor slaves, who have
0een cherished, cared for, and protected as
our flesh, are being emancipated by being
'orced into the front ranks of the enemy as
! bulwark of protection to the despicable
,owardiy wretChes, (for whom the negro
has always had the most ineff-
able scOrn and contempt, expressed in the
poor Yankee white man,") while we are
shus made to butcher and slaughter theml
This is modern philanthropy and Christi
lnity-an interference with which, accord
iug to Earl Russell, would bring the blush
Of shame to an Englfshman's cheeks
Let as stare fate In the face and meet it
boldly. We are fast being driven to the
defense of our citadel in the heart of the
The people must At once
decide whether we are to defend success
fully our hearth stones and all We hold
dear from the vandal, inlidel hOrdes that
now 'overrun US, and determine to achieve
our liberty, or to become subjugated slaves.
The pride, pOmp and circumstance of glo-
rIous war with us have passed away, and
we have come down to the stern, naked,
terrible reality of conflict for liberty, or
worse than subjugRtiOn. The exterminat-
ing despot has announced his curse. He
has refused to receive commissioner from
us, or entertain the proposition to conduct
the war upon principles of civilized ma
tions, it being deemed inadmissible. He
permits his generals to murder indiscrimi-
nately our citizens and soldiers, and when
ever our President attempts retributive
Justice, he is threatened with tenfold veu-
geance. What is this but war of exter-
limitations After the brutal murder of ten
of our innocent soldiers in Missouri by the
assassin McNeal, President Davis issued
spirited proclamation in Mississippi, in
which he declared mo- further exchange Of
officers should take place until MeNeal was
and declaring that all Yankee
officers found tampering with or running
off our slaves, should suffer the penalty of
the state laws. After the battle of Mnr-
in which We took some 5000
prisoners, Lincoln refused to receive the
paroled prisoners unless We sent the officers
with them. That was the time we sh0uld
have stood up to the letter of the bond
We did not, however; the officers were
McNeal's ten fold murder
stands unaYenged.
When Burnside murders two Of our of.
GERS in Kentucky the Yankee officers (pris-
Oners) at Richmond are made to draw lots.
Two are condemned to suffer in retalia-
ton, and to-day Lincoln threatens that if
we dare to touch his men he will execute
General Rodney Lee and Captain WindeF.
Thus what q farce becomes our retalia-
tory measures. More that this, at the last