The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-13

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huHdred more prisoners have reached here,
and more are on the way. The Richmo nd
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The Panic lin Richmond.
THE YANK EEs ADVANCING UP THE PENINSULA.
The Richmond Wing says:-U p to a
late hour last night there has been no
fighting whatever on the Peninsula, but it
was said there were a number of trans
ports on their way up the James river, be-
low CITY Point The information that a
large feet of transports, conveyed by Yam
kee gunboats, was ascending the James
river, and was not q great distance, below
Oity Point, was received in Petersburg on
Thursday, about eleven A. NC n Iyts ts3s
General Pickett Immediately directed
Colonel w. H. Archer, commanding the
State forces. to order out his men, and this
was the signal for considerable excitement
which Instantly ensned. The excitement
was greatly enhanced by the ringing of the
Court house BELL, and this was soon follow
ed by tho ringing of all other bells in the
city, which startled tho quiet denizens of
the town from its centre to it's remotcst
limits. ;,I,,.B .l.tr 5,as-s..
eg The militia quickly responded to the
summons, and in the course OF three or
four hours, more than one thousand We're
at the place of rendezvous, armed and
equipped as the Law directs All the vete-
rams aronnd Petersburg, including infantry,
artillery and cavalry, put themselves in
readiness and moved OIL to their place of
destination. The enemy came up the
James river at four NJ, landing force of
two thousand at City Point, capturing
our picket guard of thirty men under
Lieutenant Duggin.
The signal station was captured, but the
men escaped. The bulk OF the men went
to Bermuda Hundreds, three miles higher
up, and landed ten to fifteen thousand men.
Our informant counted forty one trans
ports and others coming; three iron-clads
in the distance, Monitors. and four guns
boats Bermuda Hundreds is ten miles
from Drury's Bluff, and two or three hours
march from the Richmond and Petersburg
Railroad to Richmond
Senator Doolittle, whose conservatism
and sound sense the Times commended so
highly the OF her day, prayed most earnest
ly for unanimity Of sentiment at the North.
We can tell the Senator and the Times how
to secure that unity, not only at the North
but at the South. Drop the negro. The
States which acceded to the Constitution
left the negro out. Mr.. Doolittle and his
party want to bring him in That's
what's the matter
The great trouble is, that the Republl
can party's notion Of a bargain is that
which the frontiersman proposed to the In.
dian: "Pll take the turkey and you take
the crow, or, you take the crow and I'll
take the turkey"
The gentlemen who run that machine
say to the South: eve are anxious to be
fri nds if you will let us have our way" to
the Democracy, "There is no reason for op
position; all will 60 we'll if you let us have
our way"
II a man were to proclaim as the condi-
tion upon which other men must associate
with him, submission ~ his viii, he would
find his life, if.not Very short, very much
troubled. The party which adopts that
course will have most nnenviable record
in the history of free government.
There is only one way, Senator Doolittle,
in which you can secure what You profess
so much to desire. Abandon the illogical
heresy so utterly fatal to all constitutional
liberty in a state, and so necessarily des.
tructive of union in the United States, that
the bal.ot>bOx can construe the Consttu
tion Return to those principles OF order
which, till of late years, governed the
American mind. Spurn with loathing the
netion that majoritics can, through the
forms of constitutional government, violate
the spirit of constitutional government
Recognize courts as the expouents OF doubt
full questions of legal and constitutional
rights, and, above all, when you have made
a bargain, do not try to get round it, or
worm through it, or dispute it, or deny 1t.
but perform it in the spirit in whicn it was
made, and for the purpose it was intended
to effect. Do in relation to 1t as you
would be done BY, if you were the contrac
ting party. .4
Considering how easy it is to do right,
how simple and narrow the way 1t has al
ways perplexed us to understand why men
should take such pains ap1 suffer so much
in order to succeed in dong wrong
The love of excitement, however, Is part
of our nature, and between soldier get
ting drunk on bad whisky and communities
getting drunk with fanat'cism' there Is on
" the difference between the individual and
the mass. That cynic Walpole said that
the history of the human race was merely
the story of one folly being suppianted by
another.
The frst-born of men Knocked the sec
ond-born in the head because things did not
suit him, and the brand of Cain will be tiX'
ed by impartial history upon such men as
Mr.. Doolittie acts with, who plunged an
Union into war because an established or
der of things did not suit them. Of course,
if Cain and the Republicans had had their
own way without opposition. the first muir
der would not have occurred nor the great
loo hf go F,rI0