Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-28
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| would soon "aeetle Win aedihonE Epntiny,
| anarchy and Sioitnee.'a The sssthipg has
begun. Defeated Enthusiastically quar-
| rel among themselves and yesnt6i6sr ysxa.
ton in mutual rtptssshss This is just
| what is noWgoing % !at Riehmonds FoOte.
of, f,Tsauessee has from the rsbsl
Congress tq,dIsgd.ts deelAriAg the rebel.
tion a fAilura7 and Is owing the blaIne pom
Davis. DayiEss. ttiA hsss bFpaghs on q.
severe .attack of nspralgts; Gens Les 81
reported %. have, s,b6il sesiOasly saaded
q Pstersburgi her Sel disAstesa II Ten
nessee and GsSrgIn y ave fisen reporled 80
Rishmohd, aud gensl tconfnsiOn and con.
sternation prevail thsts... i .ta.s,i 81 81
In the House of REPRESENTATIVES on Sat-
urday week, q resolution was offered for
sending commissioners, to Washington to
negotiate for peace, and e was stated that
Gen. Grant had iu advance given permis-
sion to such commisstohers to pass his
lines. Foote of TenueSsse, formerly kuowp
in Congress as "HAugmAn, Foote,n in
speech on the currency bill, announced his
withdrawal from Congress ID disgust. he
said the Gonfederacy was on the verge of
ruiu; that Congress was bhildipg up an ir-
responsible military despptism, the like Of
which had never before been seen on the
earth; that its policy seemed e. bs tocrush
out dissatisfaction by armed violence, and
that ten days hence freedom Of delibera-
tion would be effsctually extinguished in
the Congress. he threw the blame Of the
perilous military situation on Davis the
unjust, unwise and criminal displaeement
OF Gen. Johnston from the army OF Ten
nessee, and the transfer OF thar army TO
Nashville, be said, had opened alLsouthern
Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama 10
the army of Sherman; Fort MeAiiistef had
fallen, and Savannah is about 70 fall; while
the fate Of Charleston is only deferred
few days iater; Hoods army has already
metiTith disaster at Franklin; add is fatally
compromised-F0ote had not then heard
of tie complete defeat and rout Of Hoods
army below Nashville-and Presidential
Interference is the cause OF all these dire
misehiets. F0ote wanted toknoW, II HOODS
army -shouId be destroyetiI which ne conS
sidefed too probable, and Thomas's army
came round to Richnoudiin SHIPS as he
believed to be the intention, what will be
the: fate of Richmond2 Foote said, in clo-
sing his remarkable speech: q - a-'-.-
sis this the proper time to talk about
repudistiou2 Is this the time to refuse TO
entertain q proposition looking 70 IN bon.
orabIe peace2 So think many in this
houte. who constitute a.mejofity; but 80
do not think. Sir, I have spoken out
my views frankly sud explicitly, and now
/ wish to say to this house, that the course
of events here and elsewhere has bBeni re-
ceutIy such that shall deem It p duty
which owe alike to my own character
and the principles which / have heretofore
steadily maintained, to withdraw from this
body altogether. l am q freeman, and the
Representative Of freemeu, and know not
how to legislate in chains. will 20 lon :
ger be responsible for measures aaepted "
secret sessions gof .thisJ body, which ny
standing condemns This, as have al.
ready said, is perhaps the last time that l
will address this body, or discuss the
questions here ,nnder consideration, l
shall withdraw to some sequestered spot,
wher Q, lean enjoy little reposs aud tree
dom from taxation. II disturbed in my
retreat by the hand of oppression, L will
seek in foreign climes that freedom and
happiness which consider is denied 70 me
here"
With this ObjurgAtiOu, this cry Of dc.
spair, this malsdiction against the great
leader of the rebellion, and this prophetic
declaration of its Fastening doom, Foott
shook the dust from his feet, departed
from the rebel congress, and abandoned
the hopeless cause.
The Richmond papers say that the con-
federAte senate also had stormy seerel
sesslon on Saturday week, and it 10 be-
aisged the ball 10 arm the negroes was
passed by nearly unanimous vote. Il
has also been noticed that for some days
seized and hurried of to camps OF instrqc'
ton; but the negroes had got a hint o
what was going on, and were stampedint
in great numbers to the Union lines. The
Richmond Rhig accuses Gen. Kirby Smith
therebeI commander on the other side o
the Mississippi, with ddeftAuding the-con
fsderate government, of large numbers o
fine beef cattle, which are run into Mexico
from Texas. Smith also evidently see
that the break upof the rebellion is clos
at hand, and is trying to save enough per
soual pIunder from the wreck to keep bod!
and soul together, when he finds it peces-
sary "tO leave his country Tor his country
good" Ali these Thugs have. but onein
depreciation. ,s.ss -. =
Foote'S picture of the hopeless plight o
the confederacy is not overdrawn. A par
of what he predicted has uIready' been full
/ filed, and the tufillment OF The rest has
tens. The success OF Thomas in Tenues
see aud of Sherman in GeOtgiA, have no
only put those states substantially in on
possession, but made the rebetcaqse hope
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