Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-31

TaB Boston Traveller takes the measure
ure of South Carolina and her actual posi-
ton in this war, and indulgesi in the follow
ing comparison: "A small State, evsa &C
cordipg to Southern idsss Of greatness,
South Carolina was able 70 drag almost
the whole Southern country into rebellion,
as little stesmrug drags huge ship out
to sea, in defiance Ct the force Of winds
and waves" Audit may be added that A.
the huge ship i5 thereafter 70 b4sEfs viii
the winds sud waves EitAoz; tie skill q
assistance of the tugs o5esrs c. erev, 50
the unvieIdy AK of tie Sozias-a Coated
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e-s5i:lssE, al tOodlss=, and nsnless con-
5lL:s 81 the rebel Golfers, and magazines,
z=d armies. So Of the rebel military
Leaders Gen. Lee is YirginisD, and
StoneEsll Jackson. Stuart, AEbby and
other renowned rebel soldiers. were, or are,
Tirginians. The Hills are North Carolin-
iAns, natives of State as much dispised
by South Carolina, % if il were the Origi-
nal home of the Yankees. Beauregsrd is a
Louisianian, Breckenridge a Kentuckian,
Bragg North CaroliniAn, and Price Mis-
sourian. Wade Hampton is the only man
of note smopg the rebel military leaders
who is from South Carolina, and he is
only partisan, resembling those dashing
AGHO"o Va L10 AGNOIubAOuI VI "uVu Wa
Gilmore Simms has written so much and
so cIeverIy.
The above is fair exhibition of the mi
nor part borne by the Palmetto State in
the great struggle initiated by her, and to
which she had bent her Intellectual euer-
gieS for more than thirty years. The very
men who were noistest in the frat hour of
secession are now of little or no account.
Gist and PiOkens {" born iusensible to
fear y; Rustin, who claimed South Caroli-
ma citizenship in order to FIRE the first gun
at Fort Sumter; the Rhett family, fire.
eaters from the cradle; Keitt, and Ham
mond, and Orr, Magrath and Memminger
and the whole catalogue of original trail
ors are absolutely unheard of, and without
power or influence. The "last ditchn
rhetOricians have all sought safety in flight
before the advance of Yankee legions, and
Massachusetts, negroes have planted the
Stars and Stripes on the very. citidels of
the rebel stronghold. No State has been
SO easily Overrun by our armies. Her cites
fell without blow, and her rural soldiery
were scattered like chsfF from the home.
steads they made no effort to. defend. The
war has had no conclusion so utterly lame
and impOtent as that in South Carolina. q,