Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-20
FROM THE soUTH.

| FROM THE SOUTH.
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Sherman Ezpeetsd3 ii Nort6 Caroliaq-Ad-
Gies Of GtPedee Papsr to giUe up the Con,
test-Sdaksy Condition of The Rebellion.
TIE MARCH THROUGH THE oARo11HIs.
From the Raleigh Progress, ,Jan.1. t1g.
Sherman is in motion, and, according to
refugees from Savannah, has q force of
eighty thousand men. Nor is his army a
loose mob, proWliug on the country to op.
press friend as well ss foe. It is an army
of discipline, Sigor, action. With SaTan.
| nab aud Beaufort, s. O., as base, he
moves north with the sun, and already
Chhrleston and Columbia begin to feel the
oppression. But will he come to Colum.
bia with those eighty thousand men2 Yes,
if he wants to do!eo be, will, land even fur
heruinto the bowels Of the etlaud.J y a
Terry is on our coast, has Fort Fisher, at
the mouth of Cape Fear, and will soon, we
] thihk, ,hRVe WilmingtoH. He probably has
twenty to forty Thousand men. Suppose
they combine their forces, Terry and Sher.
man, we must set them down at not less
than one hundred and twenty thousand
men, And they viii move with the Gun,
and before the orb that lights the world
shall stand erect in the heavens, it is more
than probable that the federal flag will fly
over Charleston, Wilmington, Columbia
and Raleighl Yes, Raleigh too Grant
will stay where he,is, and thus keep Gen.
Leg army in thsYice that has held it tor
the last ten months, and Sherman and
Terry will move on. We see nothing to
stop them or prevent their getting to. RAJ
leigh, where they can open Communication
With NeWbeFn by rail, distance about one
hu4dred and eight miles, and thus
| dem ionstrate or raid towards Green's
| bosough or Dauyille:st pleasure. Newbern
WoEid be tho ElataF base. Raleigh the in
laut base, ami With 4rant 6ntI1S James
land Sherman 81 Bstatsss, both in com q Ind
lof large armIes-all transportation cut off
aud supplies exhausted, Gen. Lees army
would be in a tight place. And unless
Sherman can be met and whipped he will
probably come, it not with the April show
ers, certainly with the buds and blossoms
lot May. BE travels FapidIyM We had an
amy that might have checked Sherman !;
butIsince the President took its command
eH fromiit and put it under a second rate
BriGadieF, and sent it on that wild goose
chaRe to the blue banks of the Ohio, it is
we'll nigh. done for. Hood marched into
Tennessee and marched out again but his
army is gone That is the morale of tho
great army of the West, as it existed under
Albert,S Sidney Johnston, under Beaure
gard andlJ. e. Johnston, is gone, aud Hood
is crouched duYu in North Alabama with
nothing but small mass of demorali1ed
frsgm ents. There is but little more fight
in that srmy-Whst there was in it for good
has been trittered away where no good
) ooul d be accomplished, and the people of
that section have no disposition TO FIJI its
ranks; they think the war has lasted abou I
long enough, especially if they are to be
called on 70 go. These are sad reflections,
but We have to deal with things as they
are. l-.s e=+ T
Sherman will press forward. No one
can give usialgood reason for believing he
willb hurled back, and empty brsggado.
clio is no longer correct. -zr--Es
What then2 Sherman will in all hu.
man probability be here with the spring
and to stay. The Governor, now 80 placid
audl calm, 80 full of fun and coarse jeots,
Il will lhavesto hy to some obscure village as
a retuge; while the Legislature, the peo,
. ple's chosen Representatives, are now as
sembled here, no doubt, for the last time
duringthe continpapoe of.the present war
I From his obscure "headquarters" to some
wayPide village ion, his Excelleucy may
call them to meet in Buncombe, on the tOE
: of Table Rock, or at some pointin that neu
tral territory beyond the, Chowap but We
: have not the shadow of q doubt but-the
present body has met in Raleigh for the
last time, and if the members desire to dt
anything to'ssVe the people of their State
from tha rnin that is to follow the events
: that!We have foreshadoEed, they. must ae
now. Has the Governor no farewell wort
:; foF his "desr people 7" the Legislature Nc
! pafting ssipg for suffering constituents
Are We toSlook on these august diguitaFiet
Ito day, knowing that to- morrow they de-
lpart TO be seen and known NO more, by US
torevsrl The people will. stay where they
7 are, and If Sherman comes, here anG
o throughout the State generally, they viii
q DO as they have done in Savannah, make
Z he best they can of a. condition of things
a hey could not help.
But II we have no armies to meet armies
Why centinue the unequal contest? If there
9e those in our Legislature who believe
here be no salvation for the people oi
North Carolina but in an appeal for theil
III lights under the old condition. let them
: peak out, for the time has come to discuss
q aese questions. And if there be those
]; Tho believe thatithe nlJrBay to cave US
ON abolition negro equality, seryile in
s ! rrecEions and q general upheaviug of So
J. c.sty, but a restoration of tue old govern
Enent, under the constitution of our fathers
let them present their plsns-'he people
: ill listen, reflect and take such action a.
: asy may think best for them and for pos
i tesiIy. If We are subiugated, or so near il
= tAat protrsction of the unequal contes
eautend in nothing else, why continue thl
= Rarl This is . question for our Governor
/. aad Legislature TO answer to the people Q
&. NOrth Caroline. The people of the coun
n ~, not only here in North Carolina bn
81 u sOughoet the whole South, beginto seethI
II stSte and condition 70 which the war ha
= bs1ught them in It's true light, and to speal
leU'. Bastiles, star chambers and inquisi