Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-23

nation, to the lamp posts in front of his
own Presidential mansion.
"HoWeVer that may be, if We are but
true to ourselves there can be but one re-
suit. What we now need is meu-only
men-nOt substitutes or hirelings who GO
forth for any motive but the country
good, and produce but little beyond de-
Preciating our armies-but men-such as
really constitute the state, aud boast OF
being freemen and the sons of freemen.-
If these fail to support their eountry's
cause in her hour of peril, :they are m
worthy of continuing fresmsn, and should
blush ever to exercise a freeman's priVi-
leges.
s'But if bounties must be paid, let it be
in southern land, not in northerR gold;
and armies of emigrsnts, whose sons may
aspire to even the rule of the nation, will
cross the seas to win the broad acres that
disloyalty has forfeited to the state.
| ITO every intelligent soldier who has
fought through all these indecisive cam
paigns on almost numberless indecisive
fields, the question constantly arises, with
touching force, why do we not overwhelm
our enemies2
| items of thousands of lives are lost be-
cause our array of strength is so dispro-
lES6 tuhu luaJ dRhluSb WHICH
We battle. Everywhere we meet on nearly
equal terms, where we might well have
| four to one. The cost to US in blood and
treasure, of prolonged war, can hardly
| be foreseen-the economy is infinite of
such an effort as the glorious North should
put forth.
''The South will fight as long as the
struggle is equal; it will submit 10 such
prepouderance as we should show in every
field.
"GIauce at the summers campaign. If
Sherman had but so, 900 to $4,000 more
men near the South would be lost, because
Hood would be snnihilated. If Meade had
moved in the spring, with reserves of 49,
900 to 100000 men, Lee would have been
hopelessly crushed. Even at this moment
third column of 40, 900 to so, 600, rightly
moved, would give unopposed blows to the
Confederacy from which she could never
rise.
what folly then to struggle on in this
way, when we can send to the field FIVE
times the force already there. What weak
ness to think we cannot conquer the
South. Behind the James only boys and
old men are to be seen, while here men
buy and sell as in the olden days of quiet,
and regiments of able bodied citiz ems
crowd the streets of our cities.
"There is but one course consistent
with safety or honor. Let the people
awake to a sense of their dignity and
strength, and few months of compari-
lively trihing exertion, of such effort as
alone is worthy of the great work-and
the rebellion will crumble before US. ELI
this draft promptly and willingly, with
good and true men; send a few spare
thousands over rather than under the call
and the Summer sun OF 1865 will shine
upon regenerated land.
There are some who speak of peace!
Ofall Yankees the Southron most scorns
those who do not fight, but are glad to
employ them, as they do their slaves, TO
perform their dirty work Peace for the
South would be sweet indeed; for US, ex~
cept through southern subJug CATION, but an
archv and war forever. The Pacific, the
western, the eastern states would at once
fall asunder The South would be dom-
inant, and the people of the North would
deserve 10 be driven a-feld under negro
overseers, to hoe cotton and corn for
| southern masters.
But no faint.hearted or short-sighted
policy can set aside the eternal decree OF
the Almighty, who has planted no lines
of disunion between the Atlantic and
the western deserts-between the great
lakes and the eiGulf of MexicO-that signify
! His will that we should be separated;
and unless so separated peace is delu-
sion, and its advocacy a treason against
the wisest and holiest interests of our
country.
at has been with trust that renewed
| hopea and vigor might be given, when vigor
and hope are needful, that have written,
and you have my consent TO using this
as you please; and 1 am,
F'Very truly yours. I. SETHeTR,
"Brig-Gen. Q. 5. Vols
"To.W. E. Dodge, Jr., Esq, New York. ="