Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-25
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i speak OF tue contempt That is likely Il
come upon the men who are ready to for
sake their government and their country
in these times Of peril The course O
events for the last few. weeks may 60 q
little to confirm what we have said. The
drift of the pubic MUD is not 10 ,beomis-
taken, No sooHeutdO great suceesses At
tend the national arms, than straitway tbs
popular shout goes up loud and strong for
tie war, and for the gallant men who are
crying it on. The people who have been in-
different, or even opposed, jlin in the gen.
eral congratulations aud look hoppy in the
common joy or try to, Aud the journals
that have carped at every former move
ment and gloated over every failure, and
have predicted only disaster and ruin, sill
ence their accustomed clamor and hasten
to drown the memory of their recent and
now ,distastefuIi outcries, amid the celebra-
tions of the approaching safety and glory
of the public. ..1.
That change, which We may now OBJ
serve with tue Occurrences of each military
success, will go on with 6 far more general
and irresistible power, whenever the war
shall be successfully ended and the author
ity of our government and the stability of
our Union firmly assured, The history Of
the hges viii not match the Adhpts that
will then be poured upop sad ieoparded
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their lives in this sacred cause. And no
more will the records of all time give a
measure for the contempt that will be
heaped upon those who have done nothing
else but to oppose and cavil. Where is
the peace democrat in Maine there
is no State that has worse,-who will ever
occupy an Office that the maimed Howard
might be prevailed on to take when he
comes home from war; What Wood, or
bro,herboodlof WOODS in the city Of New
York, with all the applications of political
machinery in their aid, will ever reach first
goal of that race, upon which Dan Sickles
might choose to set his one remaining foot?
What further promotion will be in store
for the Richardson's, the Voorhees, and
the vallandighams of the West, when Grant
and Osterhaus and Logan and Wallace and
all their brave comrades With them, shall
go up in their return along those magnifi-
cent highways which their valor and con-
duet have opened from the lakes to the
guilt 2
1t seem strange that any merely selfish
man should not be able to discern these
signs of the coming time. BUTT is by just
impeachment that utter sel6shuess is made
to be blind. Aud the retribntion is never
more signal than when conspicuous opPor-
tnnities are disclosed 10 the path OF gener-
GUS aud patriotic devotion. The men at
the North, who have given their sywPa-
thies to the rebellion, have done il in be-
half of low personal party interest, Al
most without exception they are unworthy
aud corrupt. They have been trained 70
! put faith iu intrigue and efFroutery and
misrepresentation. They have been accus-
toned to think it a small matter to stand
for tue right OF cause. They have learn
ed habitually to deny humanity and to dis
Iregard the thought of a power presiding
over human destiny and appointing gitf
ultimate and sometimes with sudden pre-
cisiou the just award alike Of indiyidual'
and of associations. The days have bser
when such principles might be followed
and good measure, of present success Sc
cured. These men have determined mot tc
tabapdon, thea iaThe very .erisis ef M
tiopts hte, Add a6eu thebhost AHpedd6ni
interests were. :wpting uppn Ithe tssus'-
they have, their reward. They Iwopid no
.hmiss it even if the. rebellion were 70 I'll
umph, and their, country perish. What
ever else may, be unsettled, this ipfamy
viii not. 1t is established too deeply. for
apy disaster to shake These will forever
iEsdrvive-Iet no man doubt i,--the memo
~ of that, nlrrow bigotry and lth@t COW
ard selfshness, aiv y et;34 e - .,.-lf
Sometimes, a promising politicians rep
iutation is blighted under such cirepm
stances that even. though the act Fhict
worked tue mischief was wrong one ye
we feel Inclined 10 wish, thai, 50 heavy I
! Judgment had not fallen upon It. i wa
so with some Of the men from AsE Fog
land who met 10 the Hartford convention
I, They lived long among US, Of nPd9aSte'
pa,riotism aud of the ihiehest qbiliIy, Pp
shut ont. hopslessly from every Pnbli
honor. But there viii be no such sens
r Of regret along with the seOru and aiOath