Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-16

we do than send him to attenpt tomake
favorable impression upon the enemy
We knew its failure would be the signal for
grand uprising of the people, which was
the element necessary to success; we hear
It now in the improved tone OF public sen.
timent. What is our present duty. We
4 want meaus. Are they in the country If
SO, they belong to the country, not to the
man who chances to hold them now. They
belong either to the Yankees or to the
Confederate States. would take eyetv
bale of cotton in heland. I have few
bales left in my distant southern home.
which is q free gift TO my eountry. But Why
speak of myself. speak Of my noble Stste
of Louisiana. Let mel point You back 10
1862, when the city OF New Orleans fell
under the domination Of the enemy. As
Farragut's feet asOended the river aud
.ronndaa the crescent approaching the city,
WhatgreeEed his eyes on that bright afid
balmy spring day? The air was murky
with smoke, everything WAS lined with
cotton burning upou the leVse. The citizens
dld-no ask to whom it belonged the
Yankees wanted it, and they should not
have IT. But few weeks ago, with fulI
time for the citizens to, pgepsrein advance,
Sherman penetrated SsTannah, and what
was presented thereI With the Thousand
plausible excuses of interested sel6shn6ss,
the Sottop was lett, in the belief that the
Yankees would give them something for
1t. Thissau now goes to the Yankees. Who
gloadngIy said, 'snot that we have got Sa-
Vsnnah,z bat that we have got eighteen
million dollars worth of cotton" and this
while on the panks of the Mississippi and
waters bordering on my State. Three hun
dred thousand bales of cotton were sacri-
iced to the cause. now aak, has any
man the right to withhold 8 bale of cotton
from his country2 No. l say the same
thing in regard to tobacco. Take all the
cotton and tobacco, and make it the basis
of means, without which we cannot 90 on.
CApPlanss. I want more. want all the
bacon, everything which can feed thesol-
diers, and want it as 3 free gift to the
country. Talk of rights / What rights do
srrogant.invaders leave your I7Want an
other thing War is game that cannot
be played without men. CCheeTs.l Where
are the men2 au gong to open my
whole heart to you. Look to the trenches
below Richmond. Is it not ashame that
the men who have sacrificed all In cur de-
Tense should not be reinforced by all the
means in our poWer2 Is it any tins now
for sntiqusted patriotism to argue a refu
sal to send them aid, be is white or black2
A yoice-"put in niggers," and cheers.
L Willnow call your attention to some figures
which wish you to seriously ponder. In
1860 the South had one million six hun
dred aud sixty -four thousand arms bearing
men. How many men have the Yankees
sent against us7 In 1861 six hundred and
fifty -four thousand; in 1862 seven hundred
and forty thousand, in 1868 seven
hundred thousaudi 10 1854 they cAllsd out
Que millicn4hVe hubdred thousand. Here
you have the figures, that they brought
out three million men sgsiDst one million
sig hundred and sixty. four thousand con
federstes, who lived at the beginning of the
war to draw the sword in their country's
service. Our resources Of the white pop
ulstion have greatly diminished, but you
had six hundred and eighty thousand black
men of the same ages, aud could divine
prophecy have told US of the 6erceness of
the enemy's death grappie at our thrOats.
could we have known what we now know,
that Mr. Lincoln has confessed that with
out the two hundred thousand negroes
which he stole from US be would be COM
PEELED TO give. mp the contesL. ( A voice,
ave will make him give itup yet.") II
feel that the time is rapidly coming on
when the people will wonder thaethey ever
doubted Let US say to every negro who
wishes to go into the ranks, on condition
of being made free, go and hRht-you are
free. If We press them, they will go
against us. We.know that every one who
could fight for his freedom has had no
chance. The only side that has had the
advantage of this element is the Yankees.
A people that Can beat US to the end of the
year 10 making bargains, let Us initiate
them in this. l would initiate them in
nothing else. My own negroes have been
to me and said, 'Master, set US free, aud
we viii Eight for you; we had rather fight
for you than tor the Yankees" But sup
pose it should not be so, there is no harm
IN trying. With all my early attachments
and prejudices, would give up all. 1t
can only be done by the States
lseparateiy. What State will lead of
in this ,Ihiag.tss "a voice, 'Virginia.'l If
separate State counsels had been followed,
we would now have been bound hand and
ttoot to abe Y ankees- What state led of in
the reyolation2 South Carolina. One
state after another wheeled into line, until
at Last when there, far away IN the South,
every eye Was turned noFthEArd when
men were asking day by day. what Of old
/ Virginia, it WAS telEgraphed that she was
going to desert the South that msj0ri-
~ we're in for the old Uniou. We honored
| Virginia as the mother Of states and of
statesmen; glOri6sd in her as part OF our
possessions. We had men from Virgthis
all about us, and were bound 70 her by
indissoluble ties. Day after dsy came the
some tidiugs, Virginia will not come. Who
| said III Everybody saidit, and it was true
uutil Lincoln insulted you. Then the tel
egraph flashed the news, Virginia has se-
/ osdsd. Such q spectacle never before
greeted my eyes. Men, whose faces looked
like the parchment upon which their bonds
were written, rushed into the streets
danced, hugged and kissed each other
Cannon were fred, and it was great day.
South Carolina, know, will follow Viz
gtnia, as well as every southern State, If
! she but give the lead. When shall it be
doue3 Now-now. Let your Legislature
pass the necessary laws and We will soon
baye twenty thousand men down in those