Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-24

4 roittng gbtock5of such roadstts being usad q,
A other roads not in the enemy's hands, tbI
Il president and supeEtntsndento of said firsI
lnamed. oadsshalli ibeiexempt.5a 81 !
4 Toe above quotations will give our rea.
deFs s fair idea of the stringent way way in
which things are being carried on in ithe
Gonfederacy just at this time, aud of The
kmahner In which the rebel leaders are
preparing for the last grand encounter
with the armies Of the Union this spring
and summet. Their proeramme has the
merit, Of novelty. lis figor is worthy
Of our emulation. Perhaps none but
those desperate as themselves could
dare to initiate it. The Richmond
authorities are in a position q scout. The
protests Of public sentiment. Their effort
4 lsto eetuate the people generally With
their own fsars. Those fears are express.
ed vesy Poihtedly 10 the recent address
ippt forth BY the Virginia alegislature, in
which they tell the psopls that their
State organization will be b l6ttsd oatand
that all their "proPerty of syery descrip.
tton will be eonfseated," "for," say.they.
''aA efHshGvs participated IN this revolution .
"Your lands" they add, swill be divided
out among the banditti from the North,
and from Europe who have invaded opF
State. "A free negro population will be
established 10 your midst, who will be
your social equals aud military governors.
Negro guards will at their pleasure give
Sou passes and cafe conducts.e or arrest
you TO be tried and punished BY negro
eommstntdants and Magistrates. And
you, yourselves, your wives and children
viii. be mental labOrers and slaves, except
those of you whom. the malice OF your
sasmiss en- sf shall reserve for the dungeon or
This is what the legislature OffiYirEtnia
address to their constituents, In the
hopes Of actuasing them to greater efforts,
TO the end that they themselves, the legis.
,latiVe leaders and others, may increase
their chances of escape from certain ruin
BY Asertipg the failure of the rebelIion.-
On the one hand they over ride all the
libertiesEof the Southern people, ruthless.
iy breaking faith with those who enlisted
for three years BY, decreeiDg that they
shall remain iu the army during the war.
onthe other they exempt nearly all the
influential classes in the COnfederaey, as a |
grand stroke of coucilfation, and in the
third place they seek to terrify the com.
mon people by an appeal from their own
fear1 to theirs, THUS inducing them, If nos.
si6le, 70 believe that al ihe Southern pso-
pie, Of whatever class or degree, are in
the'sams boat with them, and will share
hessPtles fate in ease the teSeIlton. Ans
This policy aud all these acts and ma
of the rebel leaders are worthy
Of our careful observation, for they indi-
cate how radical aud destructive and des-
pefate is the final programme of The con-
aPiratorsi who have inaugurated this war
for the overthrow of the Republic. II
seems strange that in the light OF these
.acis there should;bs persons in our midst
here in West Virginia, and North of ms.
who are willing in undeihanded wavS to
encourage and abet tho conspirators, and +
who attempt to misleAd the people as 70
The real character-Ofzthe struggle. Some
IF them even go 50 far, as to deny that
Lhese thipgs which we quote are facts
and they have in many instances asserted
.hatjquotHtions similar 10 those We have
made are forgsries. And yet We have cut
.hese qpOtStiops from Richmond papers
now in our hands, ald which those who
are ineredNlous, can 'ee at any ,imeiby
sailing "a II At this Office, 49,