Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-30

VIZ published yesterday some specimens
of The elimination and disafection now 60
ing on in rebellion, especially through the
columns of the Richmond papers, toward
such states as Georgia, Alabama and North
Carolina. Those states are pointed ont as
deficient in patriotism, as selfshly thwaft-
ing the necessary operations of the Conted-
crate government, and the two latter are re-
preached with swelling their list of exempts
to an undue and most slarning,e extent. They
are cOntrasted with Yirgtnia-poOr old Yir-
siuial that has given her all to the cause
of the rebellion. The Richmond Sentinel
points a moral, unwittingly, when it re-
cites the history of the war thus far, and
recalls the fact that Virginia was not rash.
10 desiroas to leave the old Union, but
JI1,ueU IHsC 10 the secession movement
more ont of sympathy and utilization with
her rebel sisters, than because of any orig
inal inclination of her own. And yet to-
day, she bears the brunt, as she has borne
it from the frat. Her fields are the battle
grounds of the war. Her children have
filled again and again the Southern army.
Her Generals have given tone and vigor
and direction to the whole rebel uprising.
Sad, indeed tits for the Richmond papers
now to see such precipitate states as Geor-
gia and North Carolina hating and falter-
ing. after having 80 ardently and impor-
tunately rushed into rebellion, and after
having drawn Virginia by sympathetic
gravitation along with them into the ruinous
vortex. No wonder the Sentinel and En-
quiyer are sensitive as to the doings of Gov.
Brown, Gov. Watts and Gov. Vance. No
wonder that they reproach the first for his
accusations against JEFF Davis, and the two
latter for seeming to endeavor to ex-
empt as many able bodied citizens as pos.
stble from the periIs of the strife. 1t is
told to the reproach of Alabama and North
Caroline, that those two states have already
10000 men exempted as State officers
such as sheriffs, cOnstables, patrOlmen, &C.,
and that they are not moved by the exam
pie of Virginia, bat seem we'll content to
look on and see her win the cause of South
ern independence, even Though itrObs and
strips her of all that may hereafter make
life desirable to the present generation of
her people.
The same discussion and crimiuation
thus carried on in the newspapers, has
been going on 10 the rebel House of Rep.
between Mr.. Staples of yir-
GINA, and Mr.. Leach of North Carolina,
aud SO high did their words become that
Mr.. Miles of South Carolina, felt himself
called upon to rise in his place and remark
that if such feelings aud such sectionalism
we're to prevail, all hopes of success were
vain aud deIusive.
The trouble that underlies the rebellion
Is radical in its character. State rights
was spectous pretext upon which to or
ganize the secession movement, but it is
an invention that has at last returned to
plague the inventor. We rejoice to be-
lieve that the heresy to which the rebellion
owes its life will in due time be largely
instrumental in it's death. The Richmond
rulers feel the clogs which it imposes up
on them at every step of the way. JEFF.
Davis. with his proud and prerogative
loving temperament, sorely realizes how
utterly inefficient must be any central au-
thority that is but barely CO operative with
and equal 60 any one of its constituent Ell.
ements. The theOry,o State rights is that
the Governor of Alabama, or of Georgia
or North Carolina, is as much a sovereign
as the central head at Richmond, and that
whom they exempt in their States from
service in the Confederate army, are ex-
empted, anything in any law of the rebel
Congress to the contrary Notwithstanding.
If it takes $1,000 men to fill the small
Offices in Alabama and North Carolina, or
if it takes fifty Thousand, in the estimation
of the authorities of those States, that
many may be exempted. and JEFF. Davis
and all his allies at Richmond are power
less. If Governor Brown, of Georgia, feels
in the humor, he complies with the re-.
QUESTIONS of the rebel War Department,
bat ifhe is not so inclined he refuses, and
so far as his State is a spoke in the wheel
he blocks the whole machine.
Such are the beauties of States rights
1t did not need the mind of Daniel Web.
ster to toretell to the common sense of the
American people that such would be it's
workings. The axiom is not trner in
physics that the whole must be greater
shan any of its parts, than that the Central
Government must be superior to any of its
blended elements. Everything is ominous-
ly chaotic in the Southern Confederacy
nov because of its essentially weak and
conflicting organization. We venture that
no set of men on earth so secretly lOathe
and detestthe whole abOmiuatiou of States
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