Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-07
From the Philadelphia American.
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man can be permittcdt0 avail himself Of
his own wrong. ltOur c0pperheadB " ould
ponder sagely on this Reasonable PROPOSE!
Lion, they would, perhaps, ceass, 10 tauut
our loyal people with the long confirm.
ance OF the war. Itwould have terminated
loug ago it the Democratic party had given i
its hearty and undivided aid TO the Gov
erument. But only section of that or.
ganiEatton assisted in the patriotic duty,
whilst The largest division either stood |
inactive or gave positive aid aud eucour.
agement TO the traitors. Thus were our
reasonable expectations baked, aud thus
was the north weakened in It's efforts to
suppress the insurrectiou. The copper.
heads themselves, they and the disa feoled
or InkeWaRm generals of their own per-
snasion, whom it was difficult at first to
get rid Of, are fairly chargeAole with the
unexpected delay, as well as the additional
cost.
II We add to this serious impairment the
European aid aud Continuance to the reb
els, SO unnatural and so unlocked for, We
perceive another powerful cause which
has impeded our progress. Who could
have OWNED that the rulers Of Europe,
the Christians and philanthropists who had
in SO many public documents denounced
human slavery as the shame of Ohristen.
dom, and whose scribes had so often In.
suited our northern people for assumed
completely in the guilt, would Iuru so very
short a corneTs and stretch SO many doubt.
tul points to favor The rcbeliiOn2 From
mouth to month have the confederate ennis.
saries been waiting doubIfully at Euro
lpeAn courts in hopes OF recognition:
whereas the irm and honest rebuks which
should have met them iu the beginning
would have gone far to show them the ut
ter hopelessness OtestablishIng their slave
empire. ~
From both these sources, therefore
from the cOpperheadS, who assured the
rebels that their cause was righttul aud
should be aiGed in the north, aud from
foreign Rovernmenis, which hesitAted as to
reeognitioni aud meanwhile conferred bel.
lgerent rights where none were due
wee the insurgents melted to do desperate
battle, wasting their lives aud property,
to'ling necessarily by day and night,
straining their credit till reputation uus
aVoldably followed, and wasting the wealth
of generations in their mad cudeayors-
Only BY extremes like these have the reb
els been able to keep the field with armies.
and these are scarcely fed or clothed
State after State has be n reconauered by
the legal goVernmeut-the whole valley OF
the Mississippi lie reclaimed, aud there is
SCARCELY 4 possibility that the rebels can
ever rePossess a single State, scarcely a
considerable town, of oil that thus has
been lost TO them.
Any candid man may therefore see that
though The more saDgnine among loyal
men were deceived III regard 10 time. the
strong conviction of the patriot party as to
northern superiority bas been abnndantly
verified by the progress OF events. We
have not yet conquered the rebellion, it is
true; bot how long can 1t survive! 1--we
erred in measuringsit its term by twelve.
month, is the error SO great az that of
Jefferson Davis, who said he could defend
Virginia for twenty years? Time will
show. Or is our mistake so huge as that
OF cOpperhesds and rebels who alleged We
could raise no northern soldiers to sup.
press rebellion, nor procure from any
source money for serious waiT LeI hum
dreds of thousands of brave meu " DO have
rushed TO the bloodiest battle fields of
modern history, Aad re enlisted for further
combats when their term expired, attest
the magnitude OF the copperhead bIuuLer
which denied the existence OF patriotism,
aud regarded as a myth the idea of any
earnest love for the Uuion. Let the uuore.
eedented loaps to the loyal govsrunen,
from our own patriotic capitalists. when
80 A@NhSS@NANS AuN Nu0 $1,000
alocf, speak trumpet touRued rs to opr
northern wealth aud public Rpirit.
Another assumption OF the coppsthead
aud rebel was deficiency in Northern
courage. We were assured that a dispari
" OF three or four to one would probably
l gauge the difference in this respect betwix,
Northern and Southern troops In mauy
, . stern encounter has that 'aiIacv also dis,
appeared; aud it is obvious to every Oh
server that oniy on single field Of thi:
extended contest has the rebellion heer
T able to bold its own and that because o
e skiI[ul leadership, some lucky accidents
d aud some mysterious iocompe,encv OF
lukeWarmness on the part of our Uniot
COMMANDERS. Let the doublers and deni
ers oil success, even on this difficult fell
Z Velopmeuts.
: "The South can never be CONQUERED /,
I has been the dispiriIirg assurance witt
l which We were greeted frOmltbe beginning
l The wish was undoubtedly father 10 The
e thought, for loudesL amoug its Vtterer.
+ we're men who had profited by their ALI
ance With the slave power, and who were
\ ready to do its bidding in every phase Of
: our political histOry-wilIinR u restore lbI
traitors with superGddcd guarantees. or ia
o act as their agents to subdiyide the North
into several federations. How far this of
repeated cry has induced the Insurgents Ia
: continue their efforts and increase theil
. sacrifces let our readers judge. BUTT ba.
d never abRted the confidence Of patriotic
' and coasiderate men in the ultimate issu
i OF this great contest. Their estimate Of
) the relative strength Of North and South
was essentially correct, and the time will
5 justify their hopeful expectations.
We all remember Wheh our naval force
was preparing to ascend the Mississippi
a9a attack New Orleans, how earnestly the
7 French aud British officers on that station
; deprecated the attempt as utterly hons.
less. Yet ou- ships broke through eyeTy
obstacle and took the city. The rebel
Hollins said the result was iuexplicable-
he had NOT eEnectnl IL ..r..I.a =. -