The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-10

| eyer sucked human blood, in the form
OF petty officials, little dirty tyrants, in
ohclal livery, who, under the pretence
OF Fobbing for the government, robbed
tor themselves. From brigadier gen.
eral cotton law makers down, to the
most insignificant pet of the govern-
ment, thatwas notsfortunatb enough to
come; under the exemption clause, n
general grab was made at whatever was
IN sight. In every conceivable form
robbery was carried on. Innocent
men, honest Confederates, who happen
ed to have some coveted piece of iprop-
erty, would no sooner be pointed ont.
tlan would pack of official ours start
upon the track. The best men of the
country We're suspected expressly to
drive them into opposition, or from the
country. Confederate States receivers,
none OF whom have we positively
known to settle with their government,
IN many instances disgraced the name
OF man in their hen-roOst searches after
conn et4tedi operty. - AIT these State
and Confederate States officials inau-
gurated system of espionage and
plunder never before equ1led on earth.
No man was free from suspicion, and
no man dared to point back to the writ
ten constitution and laws of the coun-
try; for there was no law nor constitu-
ton recognized by these petty tyrants.
No one dared to suggest even the object
for Which the war was inaugurated, for
to do so was conclusive evidence of dis
loyalty. 5t3 t5 lJl - '-t
Tho soldiers who were fortunate
enough to get furloughs for homo would
no sooner behold the work of official
vampires than would they resolve new
eri to return to the ranks Nine times
out OF ten they would find that all they
had left behind had been gobbled up,
and they, in self-defence, would COM
mence stealing to get even.
Confidence between the people and
Government was lost, for every new
usurpntion of constitutional authority
only paved the way for another outrage.
So soon as the government openly vio-
lated the constitution, both civil and
military officers ceased to respect the
laws, and the. soldicry, as u conse-
quence, ceased to respect their offers,
or the persons or rights of the people.
All there has been to the COnfedcr,Icy,
i'll the last year or two, was an intolcr-
able military dcSpotiSm and soldier
anarchy Under this weight it was i'm
possible for the COnfederacy to succeed.
us own weight was sufficient to crush
1t, ana crushed it is, but not whipped.
A haser or more transparent libel was
never perpetrated than that the brave
soldiers and people of the South have
been whipped by the Yankees. The
people and soldfGry, having been des-
Polleu OF every constitutional right,
having given up their freedom and
their liberty, under the. liberty-robbing
plea of NECESSITY, "saw nothing to be
gained by continuing the war. They
had become worse off than slaves, and
knew that any change could not he for
the worse. They hHd seen all that was
worth contcnding for disappear, and re-
fused by reclamation, to continue the
struggle, when every day was plung-
ing them deeper into vassalage. The
soldiers had got tired of fighting for
niggers; as they conceived, when the
government would not let the niggers
and masters fight for themselves.
The Confederacy is dends With it
passed away an army of official Ieechcs
sufficient to have sucked the life-blood
from any earthly power. The Yankees
have them, and should treat them with
grent tenderness and consideration, for
they proved more potent in destroying
the Confederacy than the armies of the
United States. EHf .,la.. gl,rIo'"
Tho COnfedcracy is dead, and all thnt
is left is the glorious privilege of being
an undoubted, ullsuspected, unpcrsc-
cuted rebel. 1t is indeed, a glorious
privilege, after -four yenrs of hideous
nightmare and Internal persecution.