Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-24
IT win be remembered that when Jef.

An honest hearts lts lot will share
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IT will be remembered that when Jeff.
Davis undertook to send an ambassador,
in a eunboat, to Washington, and the
President declined to receive a mission
which might be construed into a tacit re-
coRnition of the rebel authority, there was
a general howl of the Copperhead press
over the administration for refusing to
entertain a proposition OF peace and per-
haps of submission. The correspondence
between Davis and Stephens shows how
tsdicious and sensible was the course Of
the President and how unnecessary was
the proposed mission. No one will be-
lieve that the object publicly stated by
these officials was the real one. The pre-
text is quite too f1irusy. All that they
professed to intend might have been ac-
complished without the aidiof a gunbOat
or the Formally OF personal interview
between the Vice President OF. the bogus
government and the President of the Uni
ted States. Indeed as much is permitted
to appear In the instructions of Davis, who
says: s#
on the ground that am not recognized to
be President OF the Gonfederacy. In this
event you will decline any further attempt
to confer on the subject of your mission,
as such conference is admirable only on
the footing cfPeIfeet equahty.3
This attempt to force on the government
came at the time when tho demand for re-
cognItion WAS pressed with such urgency
in Highland and France and Spain, when
Lee, invited by the copperheads, had in
VAded Pennsylvania, anticipating an. Easy
conquest, when they thought that Joe
Johnston was closing g his iron hand y
around Grant at Vicksburg, when Morgan
was invading Indiana, and when the agents
of secession had organized mob in New
York, ready to spring upon the city as soon
as the militia had gone to the aid of Penn
Bylvania. There is no mistaking all these
aofncidences They are not accidental
They indicate the great, and We hope the
final struggle of the rebellion, struggle
that embraced all its powers aud all its
agencies, its own arms at home and over
the frontier, its Representatives abroad, itt
sympAthizers in the free States. Well may
the Rroans of the copperheads here over
thr suppression of the riot in New York
mingle with the CONSERVATION in Richmond
over the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hud-
son and the repulse of Lee! sJ
TIE National Lntsltigeneer, with great
pertinenee. reminds JEFF. Davis that il he
Is disturbed by the reports of the banish-
ment of entire communities of women and
children from their homes by Union SOL
diers, he would do we'll to observe the pro-
ceedings of his own officers. The bRrbar-
Gus treatment of the citizens of East Ten
nessee is fresh in the memory of all. Who
that ever heard Parson Brownlow describe
the scenes that he witnessed with his own
eyes, can forget the sad story? Who has
forgotten that order of Judah P. Benjamin,
when rebel Secretary of War. commanding
every East Tennessean convicted of bridge
burning to be hung near the bridge and to
be left hanging, aud commanded thatthe
other Unionists should be sent to Tusca-
looss to be imprisoned? Men were bang
ed, whipped or eziIes without trial. Col.
Churchwell, Provost Mashral at Knoxville,
issued proclamation on the Sd of April,
1862, ordering ont of the district the wives
and children of the Union men who had
fed or who should Zee. Has the humane
Jef. Davis ever heard of thisf Did il
shock him at all7
And II it is permitted to suppose that he
can be touched at all by the news OF cruelty
to negroes, what may we not sat before
him2 They have been hung and butcher
ed in cold blood. Read the following ex-
tract from New Orleans correspondent OF
then. Y. Herald, an authority not likely to
be over tender TO the negroes:
ave learn that the Texas troops who
now occupy the LRfourch country have
perpetrSted the most horrible outrages on
the plantations worked by the government.
They have driven of the able bodied ne
groes, aud have slaughtered in cold blood
over three hundred women, children and
old men. This is not mere rumor, il is
well authenticated; and positive informa-
ton has been received that ths>persons OF
some of the negro men found in arms have
been mulilated in the most terrible man
ner." g5.tf.-s
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