Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-07
I The auestlon o. submisslon

I
South will never submit" to the Union,
should be so easy to believe that the loysl
States will speedily submit to the rebellion.
! If it is a question OF submission on the
part of the South, it is equally a question
of submission on the part of the loyal
States. Why should it be thought that
the South, in rebellion, is SO much more
gifted with the virtues of endurance and
| continuance than Thea loyal States in
preventing the breaking down OF their
ancestral, legitimate and beloved govern
ment? Surely there is full as much toincite
firmness, perseverance, infexibility aud
unyielding tenacity of purpose on the part
of those who are maintaining their govern
meut as there Is to incite the same resOlu-
ton on the part of those who are seeking
to overthrow their government. If he is
"thrice armed who has quarrel just" is
not the Union stronger Ia the hearts of the
loyal people of the country than the rebel
lion in the hearts of the disIoyal?
We see people every day who profess to
be able easily to see why the North should
yield, but cannot see why the South should.
Such people make great mistake. 1t is
the rebels WHO will Yield and who show
signs of yielding, and they only. Who
can call before his mind sgn Of
yielding on the part of the government, or
on the part of the millions upon millions
of its friends and supporters2 We affirm
without the fear of contradiction that never
in single instance have the government or
the loyal people exhibited such symptoms
| OF course hundreds aud thousands of the
disloyaI people have. They are not the per
sons of whom We are speaking. The gov
erpment is really and essentially stronger
to day in the hearts of the people of the
loyal States than it has been since the
beginning of the war Men have reasoned
together in public and in private over this
thing of secession, aud the more they turn
it over in their minds the more do they
see its impracticahility, its ruiuous conse-
quepces-ita certain inauguration OF Aiexi-
Can and South American anarchy.
We cannot dive dsoided, is the solemn
conviction now of every loyal American.
The Union must prevail, for otherwise
there is no peace in this land. Southern
men are commencing to see this necessity
and to accept it as a stern, logical couclu.
sion. Look for instance at the recent lead
ers in the Raleigh IN. g. Standard. The
+ Wilmington Journal, printed in the same
State, asserts in its latest issues that there
is an organized movement on foot to carry
the Congressional districts at the approach
ing election in favor of submission and re
Standard, which is supposed to represen
the opinions of Gov. Vance aud his friends
, has used such language that it has incurr
ed the severe displessure of the Richmond
Enquirer, which recently declared that i
, the Standard represented the opinion @
North Carolina, then the State ought to e
out of the Confederacy and make submis
sion on its own account. The StdRdar
states in reply that its views in favor O
peace are held by at least two thirds of tn
i State, and referring to the EnQmrer's sug
ges,ion that the State should leave the con
. federacy, it says:
t 'Suppose this State, thus invited TO g
out, had not gone in, where would To
COnfederscy have been to-day? Wher
would the cotton states have been! Wher
D would Virginia have been? 0verruu an
trampled down. Richmond would hav
) long since been in the hands of the enemy
and the states south of us would h6v
Il been occupied at every point and their PEG
9 pie crushed into the earth. North CarOlin
n troops saved Richmond when assaulted b.
| Mcclellan; they won the battle of Chan
cellorsville; and during the recent move
ment on Pennsylvania they defended Rich
mond under General Hill. Our people ant
troops have done more for Virginia sn,
the cotton states than they have doue 70
, themselves. And now, because they de-
not act III such n way as to please tn
f Richmond Enquirer in all resp5 cts, the.
q are invited 10 take themselves ont of TIL
-, Coufederacy They will do so, if the,
choose, in their own good time. They
will not be hurried nor retarded by thei
f enemies.
, Does not our critic know that in thu
. event of being overrun and conquered bN
the enemy reconstruction would be impos
5 sible? Does he not know that Mr. Lin
coin would say "Gentlemen, you canno
reconstruct what you have not destroyed
Indeed you have never been out of thu
; Union. You thought you were, but you
; are mistaken. Resume your duties as mem
bers of the Unioh, on footing with the
most favored states !! We tell him thai
we have been, and still are, devoted to the
cause of independence but as we stated
, in the article on the subject of peace, We
fear that the chances are against us. We
, did not make those chances, aud we can
not change them. We are Respondent
bnt we are not in despair. We tell the PEG.
pie the truth, and for this we are censur-
ed. We should feel the humiliation of a
restoration of the old government as pro-