Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-01

ships. Such is the foe that dWells among
us in the loyal States. Verify the fable of
Esop, about the serpent that was warmed
in the husbandman's bosom, will apply to
the patient and magnanimous North, which
is to-day sustaining and protecting the
wives and families of many of the promi-
nent leaders of the rebellion. And yet
these miserable ingrates would utterly de-
stroy the North if they could. They should
one and all be shipped South or else be
made to go to Canada. Their oaths of al
legiance are not to be trusted.
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tbs telegraph made mention yesterday
of the resolutions offered by Mr.. Leach, of
N c., in the rebel House of Representatives
on the 18th ult., but did not give his re-
marks. His whole effort, resolutions in
cluded, is the most direct one we have seen
on the part of any one identified with the
Rebel Government, to bring about peace
and reconstruction. 1t will be remember
ed that one of the preambles to his reso-
lutions was as follows:
The citizens of the slave States, in an
unguarded moment, under the influence of
unwise counsels, without mature delibera-
.tion az TO the fearful consequences, made
the election of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency Of the United States the occa-
sion for precipitating the Confederate
States out of the Union, which has been
followed by train of fearful consequences
not contemplated by those who advocated
the measure.
Before offering the above and the resoIu-
tions accompanying it, as reported in yes
terdsy's dispatches, Mr.. Leach, according
to the Richmond Enquirer of the 26th;
made the following remarks:
Mr.. Speaker, the resolutions that hold
in my hand, and that l propose to read,
by the permission of the Chair, are not in
tended as an apple of discord in our midst.
l trust, sir, that they may not produce dis.
cord in our midst. All ask is, that they
may have calm, careful, unprejudiced
hesring.
do not offer them unadvisedly. have
consulted my friends as to the propriety of
introducing them, as we'll as the proper
time aud circumstances. There is diff
ferent opinion as to the propriety of time
and circumstances.
do not offer them for the purpose of
Strengthening the arm Of the enemy. That
has been effectually done by the President
in his speech at Macon, Ga, and more eff
fectually strengthened by the Governors
of the Confederate States when they re-
commend the use of negroes as soldiers in
the Confederate army. do not offer them
for the purpose of discouraging our heroic
soldiers, who have braved the leaden hail
of death upon the bloody battle. field.
believe it will arouse them to know that
they are fighting tor something moro dear
to them than the negro.
offer them becAuae 1 belieVa there Ia
something practical in taem. offer them
because l am satisfied that my coustitu-
ents, both citizens and soldiers, desire an
honorable peace. offer them because l
am satisfied that the prayers of Christians,
statesmen and patriots have been poured
out for peace, and that the great heart of
the nation is pulsating for peace. 1 offer
them because l know that war is relent-
less, cruel, blind monster, killing where he
cannot make alive, and reaping where ne
has not sown.
Mr.. Montague, of Va, moved to reject
the resolutions, and for that motion all the
members of the rebel House voted, except
six members from North Carolina, three
of whom, however, afterwsrd changed their
votes, giving as a reason therefor that they
had voted in the negative as a matter of
courtesy to Mr.. Leach, their colleague. 1t
would thus seem that no great Importance
is to be attached to any talk of peace so
far as the rebel members of Congress are
concerned. There is significance, how
ever, in the Offering of such resolutions,
and also in the remarks with which Mr..
Leach accompanied them. Her himself,
says that he did not offer them uuadvisedIy
and it is not to be supposed that he did
We believe that the spirit of the resolu-
tious, and especially the preamble which
we have re-quoted above, represents a
large constituency not only ia North Caro-.
lima but in the South generally. 1t is not
to be supposed that Mr.. Leach feels himself
alone in expressing himself as he did. He
aimed no doubt to represent feeling that
he knew was latent among his people-a
feeling that JEFF Davis endeavored to strike
down as far as possible when he suppressed
the other day two North Carolina newspa.
pers for disloyalty. If Sherman should be
successful we will soon find that Mr. Leach
has large constituency
Ar Goodwin Smiths reception at New
York recently George William Curtis, in
abiding to the various messages which
would be sent back to England by Profess
sor SmiEb, said:-
''Let him say that the hearts that this
war breaks are pledged more than ever to
the cause that this war defends. (Great
cheering.) Let him say in those England
homes that standing ON the graves of our
young, of our dear, of our beautiful. here
ia America we know that after the agony
comes tue salvation, after the crucifxion
comes the resurrection, and thnse eraa 49,