Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-10
ZIG 81 TRuoE LErTERs.

| RICHMOND Va July l. 1864.
/. All letters to 60 North by fag-of-
truce must be sent to this office.
2 Each letter must be enclosed in a sepa-
rate envelope, and addressed TO me- Bu-
reau of Exchange, Richmond, Va.
3. No letter must exceed in length one
page of ordinary sized letter paper, aud
its contents be confined strictly to personal
or family matters. No letter alluding to
| the movements or localities of troops will
| be permitted to pass.
4. Each letter must contain a United
| States postage stamp, or its equivalent in
silver or Uuited States currency.
These regulations will be rigidly en-.
| forced, and no letter transmitted in which
they are not strictly observed.
r. o OULD, Agent OF Exchange.
Official: w. H. Hatch, Capt aud A. A. G.
SPIRIT OF THE PREss-THE FOURTH OF JULY.
From the RIchmond Dispatch, July 2.
The great national festival of the United
States will be celebrated this year with un-
common spirit. On the last anniversary
Grant occupied Vicksburg; this Fourth,
crowning glory of all, be is to take Rich
mond. With the capture of Richmond the
war is to end, the principal rebels be exc
cuted, the plantations aud negroes of the
South pass to Northern proPrietors, its
mighty States dwindle into subjugated ter
ritories, and the Republic move on with
momentum and majesty which will aston
ish and overawe the world. The American
eagle, with one wing overshadowing the
Atlantic and the other the Pacific, and
with the Southern Couiederacy struggling
hclplessly in his talons, will soar aloft,
giving scream that will scare the British
Lion out of his wits, and make the Gallo
Cock "skedaddle" like Shanghai. Oh,
puissant and irresistible Ulysses; Oh,
memorable and immortal 4th of July,
1864!
We considerit an unfortunate thing that
the 4th of July does not occur in Deem
Der. The thermometer ought to indicate
the freezing point when a man reads the
Declaration OF Independence to Northern
audience at such a time as this. He must
be cool man naturally; and ought 10 have
refrigerator for rostrum, who has. the
face to go through that document before
public assembly, from the clause which as
serts that 'GoUernmeHtS derive their gust
pot0er from the consent of the goUsrHed,"
down to the final article in the long list of
royal outrages-''he has excited domestic in
surrsetion among u.s." There is not a wrong
alleged nor grievance enumerated in that
instrument which Lincoln has not Pene-
trated aud surpassed. To deuouuce de-
funot King of England for dee-s which au
American President is enlogized for per-
forming, is an enterprise which no ordin-
ary mortal would undertake in this
weather.
These are the circumstances which must
add to the difficulty of such performance.
Such, for example, as the fact that "the
day they celebrate" dawned from the sky
of that Virginia which they are now seek
ing to render and devour; that it was
Richard Heary Lee, delegate from Virginia,
who, by instructions from his constituents,
rose in that dreadful hour, and moved the
resolution of Independence that 1t
was Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia, who
drafted the Declaration whose anniversary
they celebrate that it was George Wash
iugton, of Virginia, whose mighty chieftain-
ship made that Declaration good. To add
new glories to the Fourth of July by crush
log Virginia forever to the dust, is con-
ceptioa which could enter none but the
brains of "peculiar people" To carry
among their trophies on the Fourth a shat.
tered lamp whose golden light illumed the
midnight that blackened between Bunker
Hill and Yorktown, triumph that no
hearts but theirs could glory in.
Happily for US, they can enjoy that feast
only in Imagination. Their demi-god
Ulysses has failed to furnish their populace
the promised entertainment. The capture
of Richmond on the Fourth of Jnly, has
not come off according TO the programme.
Nevertheless, let the Northern patriots be
content. If they have not taken the capi-
ri they have burned the farm houses, de
wasted the fields, and plundered the de-
feuceless population of State which gave
them the Aaron, whose lips pronounced
the Declaration of their freedom, and the
1 rrbn5a valnr lad thau thrDupl the
desert.
The only doctrine of the whole Declara-
ton which the North can consistently re-
ioice in, is that which asserts the equality
| of man, and which is the solitary blundet
| in that great document. That all meu are
created equal, that they are equal Politi-
cslly. morally or socially; that they are
EQUALS in any other than religious sense,
| is too evident an absurdity graVely to dis.
tcuss. But this single falsity has swal-
| lowed up in the Northern mind ell the
great truths and principles OF constitu-
! tional liberty. IL is this, as applied spe'
cially to the ignorant aud debased Africans,
which is the handspring of the most inter
nal war known in modern times 1t is this
which blinds the North to the supreme
folly of celebrating their own freedom by
endeavoring to enslave others; of degrading
themselves to the level of the black and
endeavoriug to produce by miscsgenation
that uniformity which the God of Nature
had forbidden, and of giorying in their
shame,
AN ADDRESS FROM THE RlcHNOSD LEsisLA-
TUBE.
The Richmond Enquirer of July 4, pub
fishes an extremely long and prOsy address
from the Richmond Legislature to the sol
diers from that State now in the field. 1t
rehearses the history of the country from
old Colonial times, shows how the Anti
Slavery spirit grew up 10 the North, alludes
to the John Brown raid and says;
uIt was at this critical juucture of our
history, in November, 1857, that oraham