Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-11

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ly to the Blair mission, as will bes cen by
the EzamiHsr's article on our first page
The Wing is not any better pleased, and is
quite wrathful on the subject. Comment
ing on the preference expressed by the
New York Tribune that the Blatrs should
have gone to Raleigh rather than to Rich"
moud the Wing says:
This mission, it appears, would succeed
better if directed to Raleigh instead Of
Richmond, yet the Confederate Govern
ment resides at Richmond. The President,
who alone, with the advice and consent of
| the Senate, can act, is here, and the Sem
ate is here.
The mission, therefore, is not for the set
Element of terms by the only partners who
can settle them. Its great object is to
break up the Confederacy by alternating
the States separately. Else why not go
to Raleigh2 In other words, the Blairs
are spies, and come here svowedly to SOW
dissensions. We wish they would go to
Raleigh. They both richly deserve hang
ing; and if they go there upon such mis-
sion as that, without first obtaining the
consent of the military authorities, which
they never can obtain, they will get what
The cool impudence of the proposition is
absolutely delightful. They tell all whom
it may concern beforehand, the President
among them, that they are coming here to
SOW dissension among US and break up the
Contederacy if they can, and they seek per-
mission from the authorities to prosecute
| their mission. Was there ever any propo.
sitton so unblushiugly Yankees. The
Southern people are 10 be undeceived by
the Blairs. They are to be assured that
| subjugation and dominion over them, and
that devastation aud spoliation are not in
tended. They are coOlly to be asked to
disbelieVe the evidences of their own senses,
and when Grant tells the world that the
crow cannot fly over the valley without
carrying it's own rations, he meant merely
to propagate one of these grim Yankee
jokes in which YankeedOm so much de.
lights, That when Sheridan says he has
burned two thousand barns in the valley,
he is deceiving his Government. When
Sherman cut wood sixty miles long through
Georgia, burning, numbering, and plumber.
ing as he goes, he is merely letting off a
little extra gas.
The Yankees do not mean spoliRtion-
Thousands of spoons the Yankees lhave
stolen, and the tens of thousands of horses
and cattle they have driven off or killed,
the pianos, pictures, table linen, women's
dresses, &C., to the value of millions of
dollars, which they have appropriated
These are not object of spoliation.
The kind, afectionRte Yankees who are
80 anxious to bring us to our duty, that
they may murder US by scores whenever
they pass through our country, mean none
OF these things. What they do mean is
an abolition crusade. Permit to set free
all the negroes, let them strike dead then
their thousand millions of property in the
South and they will be satisfied.
The Tribune confessss that the object of
the mission is not to obtain peace, but po-
litical advantage. 1t cav the fatal effects
of peace negotiations last summer, and it
hopes to derive like advantages from a
similar course at present. 1t knows that
there are Legislators and Governors of
States always seeking to assail the Govern
ment on this side, and it wishes to fer.
ment this disposition. We hope, being
thus fOrWarned of their object, the Blairs
will not be allowed to come within our
lines.