Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-13

su0gest "A defense for one of the aristocrauc
money kings of the Cotton States MI w.
Il. Lamar has, with bars faced "udholty
that neither wealth, position, nr tue uaIlte
impotence oil vulgarity can support pun
lished an acknowledgement in the SoAVau-
nah papers that the lelIer Is entlrely geh.
uine, AMI attempted IL defiance not ""iy OF
public ntiment but Of the Inws OF MS
country, and those of honor and clViliza-
ton everywhere
The letter OF G. b Lamar, which we
have quoted above. is uI far more import
Hnce than any personal issues whlch we
NAV choose 10 make cut Of it, IL 10
melancholy instance OF the iuirmIty OF u
certain class in the South. That CLASS Is
composed OF certain heavy capitalists
chiefly in the cotton States, rich by acct
dent, but OF course, greedy nIture, whO'
al the beginning otSthis war, We're Tor mo-
nupolizing NIL the patriotism OF tue couh-
try, and furious in advocating hoStllltles,
who now, when the best portion oil our
people arc fighting TO defend them IN the
reriremcut OF their homes, are cody count
ling their gains 10 the blood and tears OF
this war, and enrichinH themselves as tue
convenient pimps OF the Yankee.
This class of plutOcralic pretenders Is
well illustrated by G. b. Lamar; in public,
the iucandcscent patriot, but in reality the
copartuer of Fernando Wood, and the pro-
poser of bribe to Seward out of the prohts
OF d reasonable commerce, and one de-
cIarcd infamous by all international law
This Same man who writes to Fernando
Wood of the charming vision oil "dUO 10
500 per cent" profit on their mutual Vlo-
lntion of the laws OF war and the ooiiRa-
tions of patriotism and honor was, 1t we
are correctly informed, President of Vig-
| -. In Savannah nFnYAnt
| exportution of cotton, aud gave such EVIL
dkncc of zeal in this capacity as on oRs &C.
casiOn to prevent u steamer-the Bermuda
from taking out cotton, although the
cargo she had brought in was Government
stores. But the iusincerity of the bogus
! patriot does not stop here. Ever since the
| letter TO Fernando Wood was written, aud
| while it was supposed 70 be quite safe in
the inviolable secrecy of a partnership in
guilt, we find the same g. B. Lamar, on
the occasion of a canvass for the LegislS-
ture, expressing, in one of the papers Of
Savannah, the following heroic sentiment :
al don't own wharf in the city that
would not sooner sacrifice altogether than
the Internal Yankees (uOw wngiDg the most
savage warfare against US, anu using the
scum of Europe, of all their own large
cities, as well as their Billy Wilson regi.
ment of convicts, to kill and destroy our
most valuable citizens, as they have done
and are dOing) should ever be allowed to
enjoy any right or privilege within this
| State"
There is no exception here from tho iu-
fernal Yankees of my dear sir, the Hon.
Fernando Wood, and apparently an entire
forgetiulness OF that little privilege which
the said F Wood was 10 have in consider
alton of halt profits. Really the case of
c. Il. Lamar as one OF sham patriotism
and assinine pretension TO the heroic Vir-
tues, would be highly amusing, if the case
did not also have its serious aspects as a
deliberate Injury of our cause, violation
OF law, aud an illustration of depravity in
IL class in the South, blown with the ipso-
lence of wealth, and occupied iu this war
with its own seIfishness aud conceit. 1t is
in some OF these aspects that the case Of
Mr.. Lamar not only engages the public
sentiment, but requires the interpOsiti0n
OF the authorities, and their vindieatiOn,
through process Of law, of the graTest
interests to the country.