Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-29

detaced tnat Wsz Gan sea cely make out any
of its articles. The Wtigs e better. Tia
leading article ism bitter sarcasm on.tbe
difference between "promise aud perform
auce" among certain rebels. We quote:
When the war began, everybody pro.
fessed TO be willing TO lay down life and
give up property in behalf of the cause
Now, few appear to be willing to part with
either, although the MONDAY sun is not
plaiuer than the fact, thai, without great
additional sacrifices, the army cannot be
sustained aud the cause must fail. The
fear of getting killed or wounded threatens
to reduce all of US to slavery; and the fear
ofstarVation, added 70 the lust of gain, may
produce famine in the army if not at
home. -z.r
From this text the Wig goes on and
breaches a sermon to the rebels, telling
them that everything is gone, hook, bait,
line and stnker, slavery included, unless
they wake up and turn out against the
| Yankees. ~ - v=a.
We.quote further; ~
1t rs possible slavery might be retained
in the Cotton States by the Yankees. Bot
in the border States it is doomed If they
succeed. Every inch of land in these
States will be demanded in the name of
"free SOIL" which never yet demanded
ought in vain at the hands of any party at
the North land certainly not OF the Repub-
licans See the promise of a farm in Ten
nessee to each veteran volunteer who re-
enlists for the war. Remember the vast
debt the Yankees have to pay. Think of
the honesty, mercy, humanity they have
displayed hitherto, auG- ST |..-f
al 81
lows. a'. gra
Beggary and exile will be our fate if we
falter now. We can't eat our cake and
have it. We can't wage a war without
loss The time has come now to make
good our early promises. Half a loaf is
better than no bread, with Punishment or
slavery to boot a..: 1'i|
/ The Wing publishes a blood and thun-
der extract from n sermon delivered by
Rev. DR.. Elliott, "lhe patriotic bishop of
Georgia" The style reminds US of the
whang doodle sermon of the famous hard.
she'll Baptist. He tells bis hearers that
the hordes of Attilla are again upon the
fertile fields of Italy-meaning that the
Yankees are overrunning the Sunny South
He cOnjures and adjures his apathetic
hearers to rise and do something. Here's
a specimen:
You may slumber now, but you will
awake to a fearful reality. You may lie
upon your beds Of ease, and dream that
when it is all over you will be welcomed
back to all the privileges and immunities
of gracy citizens, but how terrible will be
your disappointment! You will have an
ignoble home overrun by hordes of inso-
lent slaves and rapacious soldiers, You
will wear the badge of conquered race.
Pariahs among your fellow creatures,
yourselves degraded, your delicate wives
and gentle children thrust down to mental
service, insulted, perhaps dishonored.
Think you that the victorious hordes, made
up in the large part of the swee pings
of Europe, will leave you any
| thing? AS well might the lamb expect
mercy from the wolf Power which is
checked and fettered by doubtful con-
test is very different from power victor.
ious, triumphant and irresponsible. The
friends whom you have known and loved
at the North, who have sympathized with
you in your trials, and to whom you might
have looked for comfort and protection,
will have enough to do then to take care
of themselves. The surges that sweep
over US will carry them away in its re-
fluent tide. Oh! for the tongue of a
prophet, to paint for you what is before
you, unless you repent and turn to the
Lord, and realize that His hand is upon
all them for good that seek Him." The
language of Scripture is alone adequate to
describe it: The earth mourneth and
lauguisheth; Lebanon is ashamed and
heWn down; Sharon is like q wilderness.
They that did feed delicately are desolate
on the streets they that were brought up
in scarlet embrace dunghilIs. They raw
ished the women of Zion and the maids in
the ciIies OF Judah. They took the young
men to grind. The joy of our heart is
ceased; our dance is turned into mourn
ing. The crown has fallen from our head;
woe unto US that have sinned. -
The Rev. Doctor is terribly pursued in
his imagination. He should at once "aee
into the mountains of Hepsidam" and com.
mence Gnawing file. When the clergy
Of the South are either unprincipled enough
or ignorant enough to emit such lying stuff
what can be expected from the masses /
This war would not be complete-its mis-
sion of evangelism would be unaccom.
plished it our armies did not penetrate
every Southern State and break down the
barbarous Baalism that prevails among tn
Cinnamon there. People who have such
heathenish conceptions of the outside
world need to be thoroughly invaded and
subjugated. We trust it will not be long
until DR.. Elliott and all his parishOuers are
afflicted with the sight of the hordes Of
AtIilla bearing down on them like the To-
Gusts of Egypt to the tune of Yankee Doc
die.
IT is important that persons who design
sending money to friends in prison at
Richmond, should know that NO communi-