Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-02
Danger threatening the n obelS from
Want OF Harmony.
Prom the Richmond WhiR, Yeb %. a4i-.

IEOLn Gn9 AlcnnnonQ wing, Feb. 20,
A gray-haired merchant of this city Of
fered the other day to give the government
half of everything he owned in the world.
to close his store, and to devote his whole
time, without charge, to hospital duty, if
thereby he could ensure the success or
promote the good of the cause. Another
old gentleman living in the country, in re-
uoWin8 his SnhHnSiPtian TO the W1iS, v,SitOo
that, but for his infrm health, which con.
fines him to the house, he would, in spite
of his seventy winters, shoulder his musket
and fight under the black flag rather than
submit to be ruled by the Yankees, Still
another old gentleman, writing from the
country, implores Congress to do its dutv
and lay on the taxes. The people, he de-.
clares, are willing to be taxed any amount.
to endure any privstion, in order to benefit
the cause.
This is the true spirit of patriotism-the
genuine, unsel6sh love of country. Were
all our people actuated by motives as ar
dent and principles as nobls as these
White.hsired sires, the success Of the cause
would not admit ofa moments doubt-the
great stake would virtually be won and
our independence as sure as the sun in
heaven. And ifthe old men be moved bv
impulses so exalted certainly the vonn1
men ought uot to be backward, Nor are
they. The glowing resolutions which req
iment after regiment, brigade sitter brigade.
and division after division of Lees 9lori.
Gus army continue to send in to the papers.
show conclusiVely that the pick and flower
OF our youth are fully mp to the marx.
ready as ever to peril life and limb in de-
fence OF the lovely and beloved ones at
home. -
If the old men are eager to give the
half and if need be, the whole of their
substance, and the young men are
ready to lay down their lives for
the good OF the cause, where, then. is the
trouble2 1t is to be found in that middle
olsss OF men, neither young nor old, will
ling neither to part with their goods, nor
to imperil their lives for the sake Of that
independence withoutWhich worldly goods
are curse and life but q degradation.
They are men who give up the cause az
lost before they have made the first effort
to saVeit. They are the men who tell Won
on the street that it iS impossible to check
Sherman, and useless to protract the
Strange that the very men who
have borne the hardships of the Struggle
during four weary years are determined to
struggle on to the end, while they who
have never struggled at all are anxious to
prevent others from struggling.
And yet 1t Is not strange either. Faith
without works Is dead. He who has work.
cd most for the cause ought to have, aud.
in fact, has the most faith in its sucoesa.
while he who has not worked at all, yerv
has no faith at all. Hence the
obvious inference that il we would revive
our faith. We must renew and increase onr
works. Especially is work needed in Con.
Rress. Four months Of tWRddls is enon0b
IN ell conscience. The time has arrived
tor acaon-prompt, vigorous aud united
action. Robert s. Lee has wrought man.
Lully, and maintains the faith hsroicaIIv
DIS hand should be strengthened. As many
negroes az he desires should at once be-
placed AZ his dtsPosall Negro blood is not
more precious than the blood Of our sons
Ana orothers: The enemy is in mortal
lear lest We should arm the NEGROES and |
presses hls campaign through the winter |
months in hopes of overpo Terin0 ne ~
lore the negro troops can be ready for The
1eld. ls the Confederate Senate plavino
into the enemy's hands2 It really sesms
10. And yet We ought to beware of An
il-tmed assault upon the Gulf States. II
ZONES with bad grace from the papers 81
me state OF Virginia, both of whose SenS-
'ots are as actively hostile to the ma oF
ne negro as are any of the Senators 'irorn
he cotton Snates, We want bsImoO1
'old and concerted action; not q rsnsSSii
y me stale quarrel between the cotton ana
border States. Such quarrel. A. Snc ~
lme, II not Quickly hushed, will necesS"-;
y prove fatal 70 the cause, Tho anero,, Z
,nu t regard 1t as the surest of all siens Of
Let Us look up. There is NO hope i,
Worth Carolina. The people Of that mue5
aaLlgned State will, as We firmly believe
now q tFont to the toe which win brine Z
Lush to the cheeks of the GeOrgians md