Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-04

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two years, and then rAtably amongst the
claimauts.. .ryI rfItTE EIfE
On motion of Mr. 4BoHgs the bill'for con.
structing a road, in Hardy County was.
taken up and passed a., y-...t.. ..l-..as
Mr.. DAWSON called up his resolution hx-
ing the 3lst ult., as the limit of time al
lowed contestants for seats in the House to
prepare evidence aud had it amended so as
TO extend the time till the second OF Sep
TENDER. .t.....J ...-.,..ry,'. l.- t.u.5
+ The resolution was then rejected.
Adjourned. .,, .q....a aa.-sF 'a
The southern People and thsir Mas
(Prom the New York Post.) A
When Vicksburg was surrounded, ews-
paper correspondents write. friendly utter
course at once began between our officers
and soldiers and the rank and fie of the
rebels. Even whilS the siege was going
On on our officers and men often had plea
SAINT conversation with the rebel soldiers
onnos.d to them. From Port Hudson like
facts are reported and at other points in
the west the same has been noticed. IL
common thing to find southern men wish.
inc the war would cease wishing that
thew we're once more at their homes, and
expressing sorrow that 1t ever began. ANA
whersver such sentiments are expressed II
is common to hear also the opinion, that
(" ii it had not beenfor the politicians there
would have been no war"
Now what does ait this mean We see,
in the first place, that the people, the labor
ing whites of the southwest, who make up
the rank aud file of the rebel armies. are
tired of war, and ready ard anxious for q
return OF peace aud union. They have
bad time for consideration. Two years
ago they were apparently Jealous rebels !
many thousands of them, fred by artfui
lies and by the misrepresentation OF tue
southern politicians, rushed to arms against
their government aud country, under the
Impression that if they did not their rights
and liberties would be attacked. But in
their uncomfortable camps and in their
long marches they have had time for re-
Election they have not found the Union
soldiers such monsters as they were rep
resented /; they have always received kind
ness at our hands when il was possible TO
be kind aud iu the meantime they see the
southern politicians fixing upon the South
n rule so despotic, so Inscriptions, un-
feeling aud crushing that the people are
robbed, not only of their liberties, but OF
their rights Of property, of everything
which as freemen they hold dear. They
perceive that by permitting q rebellion In
the South against the Union they have Civ
en- themselves Into the hands of a band OF
prohigate aud tyrannicAl demagoguesr
whose only object is to secure TO them
selves supreme and dcspotic power.
Their eyes are opened; through suffer
! ing they have come to right perception OF
the momentous truth, that the only SAFE
guard OF the common people of the South
against the ruling class was in the Union,
/ \ At L. inf fal q
| Important. 49,
| But while the common soldiers in the
! rebel armies are taus ready tor peace and
! union, what do we hear from the superior
oGicersT At Vicksburg, at Port Hudson,
| in Arkansas in Tennessee, wherever they
have fallen into our hands, what do they
say? Are they, too, tired of the war 3
Do they, too, complain that they were mis-
led? Are they ready for return to peace
aud union? Not at all they are full OF
defiance; full of determination to continue
the war aud destroy the Union; full OF
| hatred Of the loyal people There is a
wide difference between them and their
subordinates. They were not misled on
the contrary it was they who deceived the
common people. They were not ignorant,
for they knew the free States by visits
thither; but they basely imposed upon the
ignorance of their poor fellow citizens.
;. We hear of thousands Of private soldiers
| in the rebel armies who are ready aud aux
ious for return to the Union; but where
! is the rebel general or colonel who express
such sentiments? .....
Now, here is evidence of class of con
spiracy in the South against the Union
II is not the southern people, but the south
eru politicians; not the southern working
men, but the southern planters, who art
bent upon destroying the Union. Th'
slaveholding aristocrat is the deadly ems
my of the Union !; he will war all his Life
rather than return to it; but his netghbort
whom he calls "poor white trash" ano
whom be first coaxed and now forces int
the rebel armies, these desire only peace
and have no dislike 10 the Union. The
truth is, the southern rebellion WAS nc
more at the beginning, and is no more now
a /" great popular movement" than wal
the recent riot in New York a " great pop
ular movement" In each case few
scheming and reckless demagogues work
ed upon the tears and prejudices of an ig'
norant class, and induced them to violate
and defy the laws, aud With u like object
namely, to secure the political supremacy
of set of ambitious politicians who are
determined to rule or ruin. -i-r.r sBg
! To secure peace anu order in the South
at as early a day as possible, is the desire
of every good man. Looking at the phe-
nomena on which we have just remarked,
what lesson do they teach? Here is pop
ulatiou composed, evidently, of two ele.
ments /; the most numerous class-the COM
mon peoples ready for a return to the
.Unien the least numerous-the slave
holders and pIanters-isas defiant as ever,
as hostile to the Uuion and as determined
to destroy it. What should be done in
these circumstances 1t is tolerably cer-
tain that if the "plaiu people" of South,
-, ne N .,h.nnn Of the Praaihant,s nnnld tn :.