Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-06-25

cln only exasperate by the sense OF wrong where
they do not intimidate or subdue by the sense of
injury.
Our esteemed contemporary, the New York OBJ
server, gives in its last number u letter from a
subscriber in one of the Southern States, where
the protection of the General Government has been
SO far extended that the facilities of the mails are
now enjoyed In this letter the writer says:
II would gladly write much about church and State,
armies and people, away down in Dixie, where verify
believe that Dinetenhs OF the people, IN aud out OF tne
army, believe that the prosecuted for Inc de-
vasation Of their beautiful country impovershment and
ruin Of families destruction of every right dear to man
and the degradation of the white wish that tits
impression could be corrected and removed from the
Southern mind"
We do not doubt that this impression almost
universally prevails in the South, sustained as it
is by the infammatory representations OF the
Southern leaders, to whom every idle taunt and
menace of the political exterminators," and every
act of needless violence committed by our sodery,
give aid and comfort as directly as those who sup
ply the insurgent armies with powder, or swell
their ranks with recruits. On this point, treated
by its Southern subscriber, the Observer remarks
aside from the intelligence contained in this letter. it
i
lie mind and it also utimates the obvious duty OF all those
who have influence in guiding public sentiment North or
South The time has when 1T ls than ever ne
cessay give the whole country and the world the fullest
that the of righteous constitutional
Government and that only the end and object OF the
To defend the Government against uoriehteous
rebellion and protect the rights of all good citizens every
where under the only Constitution that is what made the
necessity necessity imposed upon US by the weak
and madness of few political leaders in the South,
who plunged happy peaceful prosperous country into
the horro of bIaodV war In
by the Presidents declaration by Congressional resou
tons, by military proclamat0Ds it has been made known
to all mankind that this not what c0rrespOn-
dent the pei pie of the South suppose 1T to be-
of plumber and destruction but it is waged solely to
establish the authority of the lawful Government which
GUS people the shone upon We know some
thing of the horrible committed by licentous
soldery both sides War ia always horrd curse and
civil the worst of all these dire evils ought to
be restrained but fear will not be; yet we would
keep before the MUD of the people that if would
have the Lord sde and peace uniOD friendship,
and good government restored correspondent de-
sres and all good desire the friends of righteous
justice and truth South and North must UNITE in
unfolding the principles on which the Government was
founded, and n reesabshing order the basis OF the
old tried aud proved Constitution. We had par
ce of trouble but in the attempts of ambitious anat
cal men to subvert evade that instrument.
:" Such good men correspondent may do great
work in d abusing public sentiment where they are and
terminating the Southern body with the life and soul OF
national feeling We believe that hreeourths perhaps
our-fths of the American people willing and anxious
Is, and enter upon former happy cOndi
ton of unity and peace for which President Lincoln de-
sires all to pray and for which do most sincerity,
fervently, and continually pray"