Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-07


subjugated of all the disaffected states -
He says further that the people told him
they were glad when Vicksburg fell, for
they knew that it would open up the pros
pect Of peace and plenty and return to
the dear old times of yore.
One said to me yesterday. "You know
how Jealous | have been in my support OF
the rebellion. did All | could. had to
do it, whether | wished or not, after II
once began, and the tide had fairly set I'M
no matter as to molives-they were moth
ing; no matter as TO choice-that was notn-
ing Suppose ! had gone against it,
should have lost aiI-perhaps my life. or
what avail would that have been? If had
fed North, of what use would have been
to you? No,c ICe are beaten, can be Of
great advantage to yOu. We q speak for
the city Of Yicksburg) are 'ciiing 10 submit.
If | should tell you who he is, nearly all
of you would know Of him. He told me
further-and he knew to whom he was
talking, one taking notes, TO print them,
too-that if our army had raised the siege
week before the capture, the people must
have died in great numbers. Why, said
he, we could get nothing; the country for
fifty miles is desolate; there is but little
east of here, aud westward We should have
persisted ere we reached food. We were
rejoiced at the fail, and.,uow you feed US
We appreciate it, aud shall be loyal
How different this from the language OF
sueakiug whelps at home. There is not
fourth of the bitterness in this people,
who have been chastened by fiery trials,
that there is in rebels at home. ] board
in the house of prominent rebel ana
kinder treatment | have never received at
the hands of a stranger. The house has
several holes from shells, aud III this room
there are three. The family have slept III
q cave for six weeks past for fear OF them,
and there is no bitterness. A few weeks
ago it was, "You can't snhjugate us-a
tree people can never be conquered" How
is it nov? Edung the crumbs from The
rich Shmuel'S table, and are glad. tell
you that this day Mississippi is more loyal
than Kentucky Promlnent men have
| come to General Grant and asked the
privilege of hiring their own servants AMI
resuming labor, and not few have done
so. He says that Mississippi is the only
completely suhjugated State South. He
| is correct She will never raise her hand
| again. Let those who, COWard-iike, shield
| themselves at home beneath the flag they
would destroy, ponder these things. "The
Union cannot be restored But we can
have Il stronger One-a greater one. One
that cannot be rent assunder.
In addition to this evidence and to the
evidence quoted from the Raleigh Standard
we have only to read an article which We
publish to-day from the Richmond ETdmi
nsT, concerning class OF persons whom Il
is pleased to style traitors in the South
T,-t that article he read in connection witt
those quoted in this editorial. 1t is time tha
those who have spent so much of their leis
ure in showing that the South never would
| submit, should examine into the facts, anC
also inquire what are the probabilities o
the loyal states ever submitting to (h'
rebellion. People who are Intelligent ant
who think, know that with all the bosl
and bravado of the Richmond papers, th'
Southern people are just flesh and BLOOD
like other people, and that they are jus: IL
4 likely to give mp d hopeless task as othe
people. No persons were ready to abau
don the cause of the Revolution as were tn
braggart tories of South Carolina. Sub
mission in the eyes of the people of tn
South involves only failure to destroy tn
government under which they have AWAY
lived and been happy. They remembe
that fact. On the contrary. submission OF
the part of the loyal States has no sucl
prospect. 1t involves all the horrors q
anarchy. Therefore the one will submi
and the other will not.