Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-06-10

tuttleI commanding division in Sher-
mans Army Corps, made his headquarters
at the house of F. T. Cooper, Esq, the ed
ltor OF the Jackson nj ssiSsippian Among
the papers which the fugacious editor left
behind him, was the following letter from
Douglas NJ. Hamilton, politician of some
note in Louisiana, and his reply thereto.
send you copies. They contaiH an inter.
esting chapter in the secret history of the
rebellion. The originals are in the hands
OF Gen. Tuttle, subject to the inspection of
the curious; @
NEW LAUREL HILL, PosT OEFICE,
WEST FELIc1ASA, La, Feb.21, 1863.
To The Editors Of Tie Misstssipptan:
srRs-In your paper of the 9Th inst. is
nu editorial article to which desire to call
your attention. 1t is headed HThe Future
of the Confederate States" This paper.
Tor some reason, failed to come by mail in
due easOn, and arrived at the same tima as
some of the following week, or should
have called your notice to it sooner. Since
that date, you have inserted an article in
tended for DeBo1o's ReUiep, by "Pytbon,"
and notice the article editorially with ia
ver. Be, pleased to inform me candidly, as
TRUE men, If you are serious in proposing
that any of the FREE States of the old
Union should be admitted into the Con-
tederacy. can hardly realize that you
can be willing to any such propositions,
but put forth these propositions US FEEL
ERs among our people, and to stimu..
date the naisefable Western Yankees to per-
severe 10 their opposition TO Lincoln and
his Abolition administration, and by pro-
ducing dissension, qunrrels, and perhaps
blows aud bloodshed among our common
enemy, relieve us in a measure of the tre-
mendous power they are preparing to bring
against us. II -
There is no doubt that our enemy is
greatly crippled already by the want of
unauimity of sentiment and feeling between
the people and the army on the one side.
and the administration onthe other. And
6y thts PTtUGte qWarreiting among Themselves
'0e hare Prcfted great deal, and will con
ttnue to profit until zoe gain our complete inde.
PsndeHce, 6y fostering and encouraging it.-
But can we not accomplish all that Is nec-
essary and proper, and at the same time
hold out no promises which in the future
we may hesitate to fulfill. think we, can.
We can offer to join them, if necessary, in
war against Lincoln, Abolition and New
England Yankees, and after catching and
putting to death every public man in the
old Union who has been counsellor or
adviser OF Lincoln, we can make a treaty
OF peace aud commerce with them, grant
ing them the free navigation of the Mis-.
sissippi to its mouth. Ia right we never
denied them, hUwever,) and moderate prip.
Reges Of trade with u.s., But farther than
this tRould not go, aud hope you would
not either. sa5 n, 's.5as9 sf :
Your paper, for some reason, is taken as
an organ of the President, and these views
OF yours may be taken as his. Perhaps
they are, though / trust cot. Iswas born
IN Williamson county, Miss, near where
JEFF. Davis was-raised, and my family were
schoolmates and friends of his. 1, myself.
have always esteemed and admired him
and from the beginning of this revolution.
have looked upon him as second Wash
ingt0nito lead our people through it to a
successful termination.
But if he favors reconstruction oftd
Union of PREE and SLAVE States, after the
experience we have had, 1 have given him
credit for too much penetrate and sa-
gacity. SIM a
In several public addresses and messages
very lately, he has taken occasion to de-
clare most positively and distinctly, that
he would never agree under any circum-
stances to- reconstruction Of the OLD
UNION. But he has never declared that he
never would favor a Union of sldue and
lyFes 0NhtS$s.e ne l6 q man VINO Keeps his
own counsel, and talks only wtien he
pleases, keeps silent when he pleasss. He
may have reserved his opinion for fitting
time for publicsexpression.
am by nature, educationT andfreligion
a Yankee-hater. Iloathed the Old Union,
and no act of any people ever afforded me
half the delight that the secession of the
Slave Statesfrom the Old Union did. You
may imagine, therefore, any chagrin, and
surprise when noticed in the colums ofa
LEADING paper, in one of the leading se-
eession States, articles advocating a recon-
struetton of the Union. And, this at the
livery crisis of revolution, when our iude
peudence, which We have suffered SO much
for, and foughs SO gloriously for, is within
our grasp, and foreign nations, as well as
iYankeedom, are on the point of acknoWl-
edging it.
SMyadear sirsS write to me in reply and
say that you are not In earnest, but are
batting traps to catch green ipeStern Roosiers
You cannot surely be planning to permit
these Verntiu, Aneoutt, 1dRGtiedl and depravsd
as they haze prOUsd thenaseEpes to Be, to enter
Eagain our Legislative halls, divide our off.
ees of profit and trust, and partake freely
of all the privileges of our own citizens. If
voting, owning property, etc, etc.2 You
must have learned by the experience of
the political agitation of the past twenty.
fve years, accompanied by hatred. abuse
and jealousyi followed by war cbarac-
terised by mere outrages, plunderings,