Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-10

How long would slavery last under this
strainP ls not your proposition abolition.
ism in disguisel No, Messrs. Editors, We
could not live in country inhabited by
such class. Either they or We would bG
forced to leave. Which would it be, and
where and how would they go Abraham
Lincoln emancipates' all he can steal. You
would take and emaucipate one half at 8
word, or, at all events you would take and
emancipate that portion without whom the
other portion would be valueless and q
charge upon the country. No, our cause Is
not so desperate, nor its condition SO low az
to need the aid OF an army Of free negeoes
There are stout arms and brave hearts
enough among the white men of the con'
federacy to win and secure its freedom. and
he who would call upon the poor ignorant
slave to fight his battles for the boon OF
worthless freedom must not only be deeply
despondent, but regardless Of the duties he
owes to his country, to his negro and him
self. 1t il not for the slave either to win
freedom for the white men, as you would
have him, or to take the yoke of subjugR-
tion upon him, would the Yankee. But il
is for the Southern white man to achieve
his own independence, to secure himself in
the possession of his slave, and to secure
to the slave the secure possession of q good
master.
LACK OF D1scIPLlHE IN THE REBEL AREY-
ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF A REoRGANlzA.
TIoN.
From the Richmond Enquirer, Nov. 4.
Our army, the noblest ever rising in
arms on this earth, possesses all the bril-
liant qualities and rare virtues of truly
national army. Its spirit is unsurpassed.
Filled with clear sense of the danger that
threatens his native land, personally inter.
ested in the welfare of the country, and
sternIy resolved to die rather than submit,
every mau In IL isl hero. Their bravery
has never been doubted by the enemy. lts
military capacity is equal to Its spirit
The result of every 6ght, the acknowledg-
ments Of careful observers from abroad,
aud the principle of exchange adopted by
the North, have all proved alike that num-
bers have ever failed to make an impres.
sion upon our troops, and that our greatest
successes have been obtained when eur
strength was inferior 10 that of the enemy.
Even when beaten, our armies have never
been destroyed; but have learned from the
very disasters the experience which leads
to victory. In these two elements of success,
in spirit and in pluck, officers and men
vie with each other. To them We owe the
triumphs we have achieved, the re-
sistance against overwhelming odds for
nearly four years, and the commanding
position we now hold. Thanks to them
we have repeated the successes which the
Netherlands mercantile country of
small extent, exhausted by a long course
of tyranny aud oppressiou-Rchieved
against the richest monarch OF the earth,
the mastsEl of the largest and most power
full armies, commanded by the NEST re.
noWued generals. Under the skillful tut
ton aud the able conduct OF Maurice, OF
Nassau, they learned the art OF war, and
by indOmitable spirit only, tore the laurels
from the Spaniards' brow aud drove them,
defeated and disgraced, from their country.
It was the same spirit that enabled the
uncIothed, unshod and unframed troops of
the French Republic to defeat the mag
uificent armies of Prussia and Austria, and
to carry their victorious banners ACROSS
the Rhine aud over the Alps. So may we
also, with the help of God, triumph at last
aud conquer that peace which is to give US
liberty, prosperity and greatness.
But before We can hope for final triumph
we shall have to learn one more lesson.
We have all that those noble troops had
who thus achieved Independence for the
Netherlands and crowned the arms OF
France with impsrIshable glory, save one
thing. We lack di8cipliSls. There is no
Disgusting the fact. From the stragglers
of the great Jackson and the truitless vic.
tory of Bull run to the disasters 10 the
valley and the retreat in Georgia, from the
confessions OF brave generals and gallant
privates, to the disclosures of the Execu-
tive at Macon, every victory and every de.
feat speaks of the one thing wanting-the
lack of discipline. That it should be i'm
perfect is not to be wondered at. Our ar
mics have from the beginning been so ab.
normal in the elements they contained, the
they chose and the laws that
controlled them, that men in the army and
out of tho army thought for q long time
the usual laws Of discipline inRPplicable
to them. Were they not all gentlemen
And what gentleman would do a mean
thing, steal horse or plander q chicken
coop2 We're they not all intelligent be-
yond other troops of the wDrld2 Aud what
man in bis, senses would eat up the ratious
dealt out, for Eve days in one, or throw
away his blanket because it was heauy2
Were they not brave and bold2 Aud what
brave man would linger behind on the
march or turn his back to the enemy in
battle? Itwas thought enough at first to
operate upon the men by appeals TO their
patriotism and honor. Whenever they met
the enemy, man to man, this was sufficient.
It is SO still.
But we have learned to look upon our
army as what It ought to be-uot a vol
untary assmbIage of gentlemen, but a
machine, consisting of Intelligent parts.
In this light an ARMY cannot be efficient
without discipline; and il we want to con-
quer, if we wish to be free, we must have
it-have 1t we'll understood aud strictly
enforced. Its apparent harshness is true
kindness; the one deserter shot saves the
lives of Thousand comrades. 1t is true,
discipline is unpAlstable to men accus-
toned to perfect freedom of action. 1t
smscks of tyranny aud reminds them Of
slavery. But the patriot, who leaves wife
aud child in his lonely home, who abau-
dOns his pursuits and his pleasures, who
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