Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-12

scrupulous strictuess, has occasionally
frustrated very pre- missing measures.
Thus Internal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. with
the impediment5 from without to prevent
Congress from being as efficient as the
nation expects from the ability it contains
and the pressing urgency of the times
And yet, We repeat, it is they who will
have to decide, and probably TO decide ere
the year is closed, whether we shall be
slaves hereafter or free and powerful peo-
pie. There is no element of the body pol
itic which does not demand imperatively
their closest attention, their fullest energy
and their highest wisdom. Not even our
foreign relations, 80 much neglected here
tOfore and 80 unimportant in appearance,
will bear being lightly passed over. Our
credit abroad, without which it would be
difficult to carry on the war, is tender
exotic to be carefully nursed, not by fnsnt
cial ability only, bat by making our phys
ical strength and our moral worth more
fully known to an ignorant and prejudiced
world. Then the suggestion of invoking
the aid of France or England by the prom
Use of future advantages will have to be
carefully weighed What lf.denial the
depth of national hatred might make us
prefer to subjugation to the Yankee, how
the mere threat of submitting to q foreign
protectorate might affect the policy of the
enemy, and the probability of European
Powers accepting such an offer, are there
fore questions of.highest import. Nor will
there be those wanting who insist upon the
use of moral influences as national Weap-
ons by the side of the sword, and who
weuld have US deal tenderly and at least
politically with our so called friends at the
North. The hopes they choose to cherish
in the case of McClellan's election, the ne
cessity of aiding the peace democrats by
the meansiu our powers and the Importance
of collateral agencies in bringing the war
to an end, will all be pressed upon the at
tention OF Congress, and require careful
consideration. Then there is the most
important question Of all-the ways and
means to carry on the war. The failure of
the measures of last Congress is evident.
The decline of the currency was too large
ly attributed to the redundancy, no re-
gard being paid to the Importance of keep
ing up, nursing aud improving the credit of
the government. The currency has now
lost its purchasing power, and must be got
ten rid of altogether. The evil is inoura-
BILE, and nothing but it's utter extinction
will rid us of the oppressive weight which
paralyzes production and destroys COM
merce. 1t may be found fmPolitio to re-
new the experiment of a government cur.
the only sound aud safe basis after all
should be deemed impracticable, resort
will have to be had to State currencies,
supported, perhaps, by the issue of gov
ernment bonds. But, as there can be no
liberty in store for US WithoutWar, so there
can be no war without money, and the poo
pie look with almost painful anxiety to the
measures to be enacted during the coming
session. Next to money, men, of course, are
most needed, and the very grave difficulty
of filling the ranks of the army without
destroying or even seriously Gripping the
productive power of the States will demand
almost undivided attention. The army it
self can do much in this respect by the
adoption of a sterner discipline and of un-
compromising enforcement of the Articles
of War. They must cease to look upon
themselves as volunteers, to be treated diff.
ferently from standing armies. We have
made the experiment, and it has failed
They must try o system of strict RESPONSE
bility, from the highest to the lowest, or
there will soon be no army left. 1t lie
doubtful whether more detailed men can
be recalled from the production of grain
and the indispensable branches of Industry,
and whether the list of exemptions will
bear curtalling. A leUee en- mdsSe can answer
ouly for short, spasmodic effort. Much
ing OF slaves-a measure apparently of IN
aVoidable necessity, and yet fraught with
formidable difficulties. How to prevent
the present evil of taking two hundred
thousand productive hands from our lands
and setting them free, while their wives
and children remain slaves how to guard
against the dangerous lever of such po-
pulstion in our midst hereafter, will re-
quire all the tact and the wisdom of our
legislators. Nor are minor questions want
ing, the Importance of which are none the
less pressing because not so apparent,
many OF which will have to be discussed
in secret session. But wherever We turn
the grave solemnity of the task appals the
outsider. and ought deeply to impress the
Congress. Trustingly aud confdingly,
great nation has given into their hands the
control of their property, their lives, and
the happiness of future generations. Oau-
tiously and conscientiously, we hope they
will approach their solemn duties, and,
invoking the aid of the Almighty, devote
all their faculties and all their energies to
the salvation of mighty people in the
very crisis of their existence.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REBEL CONGRESSMAN
BoYoE AND HIS RECONSTRUCTION POLICY
HIS LATB LETTER A BOMBsHELL IN THE
SOUTHERN CAMP.
From the Charleston Courier, Oct. %.
"That MIR. Boyce is true southron, an
earnest patriot and a most disinterested
man, we do not question for single mo-
ment. But the fact that he is all these,
aud that in addition to his being all these,
be is also the pOssessor of no ordinary abil-
tiles, makes us regard him as scarcely less
dangerous than-no, we will not utter the
name that was about to slip from our pen in
connection with one whom We must oppose,
but to whom we cannot deny respect. 1t
will suffice our purpose to declare that we
believe the representative of this Congress
sionaI district has sufficiently identified
himself by his late letter and speech with