Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-03
Prom tho RiohmOnd Enquirer, Sept. q.

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From tho Richmond Enquirer, Sept a.
The abaudoument of Atlanta and Win.
chester has led 70 much speculsting and
great detection among the faint hearted.
They fancy Georgia Is already leagued
with the enemy and Eynchburg once more
endangered by brutal fanatic. 1t is Of
no use to reason with such men, they will
only hear what they ehoose-fear closes
their eyes and self interest closes their
Judgment They seek Q sorry satisfaction In
blaming an unsuccessful general and de-
light in proving how easily mishaps might
have been avoided. The calmer Judgment
the warmer patriotism, sees no such rea-
son for dependency. All that is really to
be deplored Is the loss Of men, Lives are
precious With'us and few thousands tel
heavily in the scales. But, from Official
sources we derive the comfort that the sup.
ply Of youths coming of age, together with
revoked detailsiWill enable most enrolling
officers TO replace, to use their terminology
one man and half for every man lost. Gen
erals like Rodes are not so easily replaced.
Still there is admirable material in abund-
Rnce In our ranks, and much more truly than
in Napoleon's far famed armies, have our
men the marshal's baton in their knApsacks.
Our troops In Virginia, whose people have
after all been the backbone and the brains
Of the revolution, and whose ensapguined
fields will yet see the God of Battles decide
in our favor, may not be strong enough TO
attack, but are amply sufficient to resist.-
The Timex Of Grant are GtrGGdy 90 danger
6tSEy LsngtheHed, that, ere long his centre may
be ePieTcsd and his PoSitioB seriously eldaHg-
cred. Trying to perform that most hazard.
GUS and critical moYement-an attack on
both flanks.Whieh even Napoleon attempt-
ed but once with success, ct Dresden-he
dared not lead his dispirited troops to q
brave escalRde, and waits In vain for his
Bkilful adversary to commit fault, by
which he might profit. The noble citizens
Of Petersburg, emulating the composure
and ready sacrifices of their neighbors in
the capital, stand yet undaunted by the
long siege, aud in both cities the increase
Of danger seems only TO augment the oour-
age and devotion of the Inhabitants. They
have not yet suffered as the Venetians did
in 1s49, when more than half of their
grand old city was under the FIRE Of bombs
and red hot bAllss In tfe dead of nightiamid
the showersotshot, the crash>of fcrumbling
walls, theaight Of fbIa5ing houees, the whole
population pf'the threatened quarters, went
forth, calm; resigned without a5murmuri
old men and snipplingss women and chill
dren. "They may drive us from our homes
but they cannot terribly us into submis-
sion,n they exclaimed; and have not hun
dreds and thousands of our own people said
and done the same. Suoh,men are worthy
of independents; they are sure TO conquer
it sooner or later. ThelveTy martyrs, who
seal their devotion with tbeir lies blood,
like Jackson. end q Rhodes, after having
proved their loFel Of couutEy BY deeds Of
martial daring and sr1al Tallo1s teiumphss
are our guarantees Of success. They are
men who cannot perish, whose voices from
the sepulchre defend the cause to which
their existence has been devoted. In their
lonely, but not unhonored, graves they
still plead with unanswerable eloquence,
the champions in death as in life, of their
native land. The nation that gave birth
to such hearts, that can boast such devo-
tion, such heroism as our noble troops |
have displayed 10 every campaign, on |
every battle field, has already proved that
she has men worthy of liberty and men |
capable of directing her destinies.
And, ifthe enemy has moved few miles |
up the great valley, so full Of lofty mem |
ories of we'll earned victories and unpar-
alIeled eampaigns-What of thaR Has 1t
mot already been traVersed by his lawless
soldiers from end to end, and yet it clings
more closely to our fate than child ever
!cluug on its mothers bosom. Thanks be
to God, who blinded our adversary and led
him to exchange wise policy OF tolera-
ition, which might have cost rs dearly, for
ia mad and fanatic tyranny, which changes
the lukeWarm friend into an ardent pa
triot, and converts even the Union loving
loyaIist into q warm Southeruer. We are
not the first people whose incidence and
ready Roquiescsnce had to be burnt out
with FIRE; we also have had to learn that
suffering is aisign OF life-nay, often one
of its essential conditions.