Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-21


GOVERNOR Brown of Georgia must be
one of those men, whom it is about as well
to have against you as with you. If you
had many such friends, you would pray to
be delivered from them. JEFF Davis must
by this time question whether the Georgia
Governor, who processes such zeal for the
cause of the south, has not damaged him
quite as much as he has helped him.
Gov. Browns last message is curiosity.
1t is difficult to say which he raps the har-
der, Lincoln or Davis, the Confederate or
the Union government. He deals his blows
about Justify on both sides. But however
much he may criticise everybody else,
there is one person in whom he has I'M
Honorable Joseph e. Brown, Governor of
Georgia. Just see what shot he sends at
the Richmond concern:
81 do not see how it can be denied by
any candid man that we have, in practice,
made fearful strides since the war began
towards centralized government with
unlimited powers. The constant tenden-
cies Of'the war have been to the subordi-
of the military, and the concentration of
the supreme power in the hands of the
commander in chief of the armies. The
longer the war lasts the greater the ten
dency to this result, and the less proba.
bility at it's termination of a return to the
constitutional forms and republican sim
plioity which existed at the commence
ment.
he sees no road to peace over the battle
field. We must find peace, if at all, he
says, by negotiation. But the President
cannot negotiate successfully.
There is reason to fear that President
Lincoln, if re- elected, and President Da-
Wis, whose passions are inflRmed against
each other, may never be able to agree
upon terms for the commencement of ne.
gotiations, and that the war must continue
to rage till there is a change of admins.
tratiou, unless the people of both oouu-
tries, in their aggregate capacity as sover.
eign States, bring their powerful influence
to bear, requiring both governments to
stop the war, and leave the question to be
settled upon the principles of 1875, as laid
down in the Georgia resolutions, passed
Mt your last session. These resolutions
in substance, propose that the treaty ma
king powers in both governments agree tc
stop the war, and leave each and any one
of the sovereign States, by convention Of
the people, fairly chosen by the legal and
duly qualified chosen voters, to determine
for itself whether it will unite its desti'
nice with the one or the other Oonfedera.
ey."
He argues at length in favor of the res.
olutious passed by the Georgia Legisla.
ture, recommending convention of States
He gives Davis a tap in passing for moi
respecting the rights of the Georgia Leg.
islature and not appointing commissioners
to lay the matter before the north.
If Gov. Brown has heretofore labored
under the delusion that the North would
look with any favor on his project for a
Convention of the States to determine
whether the independence of the South
should be granted. his opinion has now
been corrected by the late election. What.
ever else the people of the North have just
decided at the polls, they certainly have
decided that Gov. Browns theory of State
sovereignty and secession will be opposed
by them to the bitter end. He nay as
we'll abandon the hope that they will ever
consent that any State, even Georgia 1t.
self, shall at its will walk out of the Union.
1t has been reported that he was Of the
opinion that any rebel State could leave
the Contederacy, when it chose, and rejoin
the Union. But he now says explicitly
that no State can in honor do SO, until the
war is terminated.
See how he puts the supporters ofour goy-