Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-23

| independence of the South. He did more
TO accomplish this result than any man
than any five thousand men in the cOnfed'
eracy. We deem it, therefore, . matter Oi
simple justice that, in speabiug of the su-
perb man who iuaugnrated the present re-
volution, the name of John Q. Calhoun
should be placed drst on the bright roll Of
honor. g.'.i sg $40 gdal 1u z
THE PROVISION QUEsTIoE.
From the Lynchbnrg Republican. t1a7
By the use of map, tracing counties
Ioyerrun by the enemy, together with the
census report of 1860, an approximation
| might be arrived at of the present crop.
! Many have planted wheat who never did
before, to supply their own use, and many
more have largely increased the number of
acres usually seeded. The Of fsrtil-
E,izers, together with the loss from Invasion,
| can scarcely have dimiuished the crop Of
| 1860 more than two fEths, yet all will agree
putting it at one half, which Will place the
crop this year at 1000, 600 bushels. 1t
will also be conceded thnt the amount of
wheat and -four of albthe old crop on hand,
boarded by spectators or mot brought
forward because of the difficulties in trans
portatiOn, is fully equal to Dne-eighth of
this amount, which is the usual allowance
for seed, sc. This. would then allow
Z, SOC, 900 bushels of wheat for home con-
sumption and the market, equivalent to
one aud twO-thirds milliousof barrels of
fonr! The armiesin the State of Virginia
eau scarcely require 1000 barrels per day,
which would be averaged bread ratIons
for 1876, 600 men. About one third of a
million barrels year would perhaps be a
safe estimate. The governaent, by this
calculation, win need, if the eptire bread
rations for men Is flour, ope fifth of the
wheat crop of the state, ordqubleits 1.-THE.
The government tithe may be estimated at
166,666 barrels of flour, and il one half of
the bread rations be of corn meal the year
round, this amount of -four, if thgre is not
too great wastage, will supply the govern
ment demand, aud place it, when the tithes
are all brought in, entirely ont of the mar
ket. But can the population of Virginia,
exclusive of the army, require four or FIVE
and half times the amount which the
government wants (Which wOuld'be aver
age army rations, If no other breadstuts
were used, for seven hundred thousand or
eight hundred thousand inhabitants for a
year,, with crop of forty million bushels
of corn in prospect, besides other grain,
vegetables, &C.? judge that that amount
of -four has never been Consumed in the
state, aud it is not needed now.
THE ATLANTA APPEAL ON 'PBAOB THROUGH
RECONSTRUCTION"
From the Appeal of tho 9th. tt
In few leading articles wo have re-
Gently eudeavorcd TO point out some of the
fatal consequences that, to our mind, would
inevitably flow from peace obtained
through reconstruction of the Union,
and the necessary disbauding of our army
and navy. The Richmond dAisxGmiDer has
a. \
pressed with similar views to those en-
tertained and expressed by US. That o
peace secured through such means would
would prove an eternal death to the rights
and liberties of our people, will very soon
become the universal conviction of every
mind No doubt can can be felt
by any creature not an idiot, remarks the
Examiner, that if the government of the
United States believed for a moment il
could persuade, by promises, proOlama-
tious, words of any kind, the aru1ies of tho
South to disband, the cOnfederacy to dis
organize, and its citizens to take the oath
of allegiance. that it would spare those |
words. To conquer the South without
fighting has been the great desideratum of
that government and people from the be-
ginning of the war until this time. This
prime object would be in fair way of at
tion of their citizens, would enter into neil
gotiation with the Northern States, or any
portion of their citizens, on such a |
subject matter as reconstructiOn of the |
Union. Cheating might then begin
CANNON would have chauce-thOu-
sands of promises kept TO the ear and bro
ken TO the hope could then be heard and
their fatal effect on the weary, the coward
IL and the base But he must be more
than idiot who can suppose it possible that
the United States, people, politicians, par
ties, or government, whatever their prom
ises, will ever vary one hair'a breadth or
shadow of turning from their cruel Pur-i
pose. These purposes are simply the strip
ping from this people every dollar, every
bit of personal property, every foot of soili
the appropriation of our houses and effects;
the establishment of negro equality; the |
roofing out from the whole land every |
family that retains trace of Southern |
feeling. There is but one only means of /
them from doing all these things |
to the letter; these means we are using, |
not with all the success we could desire,
but with-enough TO prevent that utter de- |
struction which will'be the certain aud inn
mediate consequence of the abandonment |
of their usage. So long as the Southern !
can keep an army in the field, |
it is belllgereut. Southern soldiers ta-
ken captive iu the war are prisoners of war.
The Southern people are still entitled to
such protection as thelaws of war can give.
Their position, at the worst, is stin that
of unfortunate patriots They have not
to blush, to cringe, to tremble and to hide.
But the mOmentithis war shall end with
out securing the independence of the con-
federacy, every southern soldier is sudden
ly converted into a HgLoN. That must be
the legal status of all who have borne
arms against the Union. There is no es-
cape or evasion of it, or any of the shame,
the loss, the misery that accompanies that
condition. No oct of amnesty which hu-
man wit could devise-aud the enemy
never has; and never viii grant any am