Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-10
YEARLY ADvERFrsTNa.
THE ANTIIJFFF. DAVIS PRESS

The ,ANTl-JEFF. DAVIS PRESS.
The Rebel Naturalization Organs De-
StrOying Confidence, Preventing Enlist.
ments and Stimulating Desertton.
From the Richmond Sentinel, administration or.
s.sJ aa..1t4. gan,) Jan. 4. -.
| How comes it that we meet with go
many gloomy and Respondent individuals.
at time when there is nothing in the pos.
ture of affairs to justify such gloom and
desPondency2 The enemy, after the most
vigorous, and, on their part, far the most
bloody campaign of the war, do not occupy
half as much of the Confederate territory
as they held year ago. Their currency
has deprecated and their debt Increased
much more rapidly than during any other
year of the war. They are almost entirely
cut off from supplies of gold from Califor-
| MA and without gold they cannot sustain
the war. Their men fight only for money,
tor specie or its equivalent; ours for liberty
and independence. We could carry on the
war without money. They must cease to
fight when money fails; aud fail them it
will 30 soon as ell confidence is lost in
their paper currency The depreciation
OF that currency :ing the past year
leaves no room for doubt that the day is
not very distant when it. will no longer
subserVe the purpose of buying up the
million of merceneraries required for the
| prosecution of this war. It Is true that the
depreciation of their currency does not pro
ceea so TGpi3Lg as toe had hoped and expected;
but it is going on fast enough to satisfy ev.
cry -considerate mar, that the day of their
national bankruptcy is'not far distant. a
bankrupt nation cannot carry on great
and costlysYaI;- but baukruptcy, national
4 and individual, arms with INCREASED cour.
age, thirst of revenge and desperation, a
people fighting, as we do, for property, life,
liberty and independence. =, ,i n 3.
Should they put larger army into the
held the present year than in aoy former
year, it will but increase their debt the
more rapidly and hasten on their bank.
ruptcy. Even without such larger army
their debt ID increasing in geometrical ra-
ito; for food ammunition and clothing and
all the expenses of Quitting and sustain
an army, are more than double what they
were when the war began. Indeed, it
would be nearer the truth to say that the
iaverage prices at the North are now three
times as great as when hostllities COM
menced, and the prices are daily rising, as
their currency depreciates and their debt
increases. Nobody now volunteers at the
North, aud to purchae the enlistment of
soldiers will costthem more this year than
any year heretofore. Besides the in
terest of their debt is not paid by them,
but great part of it is naturally converted
into principal. -----
All these considerations are obvious
enough to everybody, and should inspire
hope, confidence and cheerfuluess.7 That
they do not doso is entirely owing to the
gross misrepresenta'iUnso of panic making
| opposition, who, who by continually des !.
crying the administration and the generals
andjt the other officers appointed by the ad-
lministFation, have succeeded in some de-
gree in destroying confidence in its wis
dom and hclency, prevented enlistments
and stimulated desertlon from the ranks of
our armies. They daily and hourly tell
the people Tin etfect), through the press by
paid letter writers and in conversations,
that the President is t0edk obstinate, capri
/ ciolEs, and wholly incapable ofperforming
the duties of his office; that his cabinet are
imBecileS, and that the officers of the army
whom he appoints are wholly unified for
their commands.
Having to fight the Yankees, encouraged, ,
abetted and aided by these false, malignant
aud treacherOus panic makers and SIAN
derers within our own ranks, tie success
Of our own arms is truly wonderful. That
continued success should give assurance to
the people, that with such men as we have
had at the head of affairs, State and Con-
Ifederate, since the was began, We can and
will win independence, despite. of federal
arms, though insidiously and iIdustriously
encouraged and aided by intestine folly
and treachery. Enough men will enlist in
i our armies, and remain in the ranks, to
secure the ultimate; though tardy, triumph
of our arms, despite the tendency of q panic
making opposition toipreventa such enlist
/ ments aud to encourage desertion. They
lmay, and will delay our ttiumphal success,
but cannot altogether prevent it.
Il Abuse, villify, misrepresent and slsnder
The officers of our army, because they are
all the apPointees5 of the President, as they
"A may, those officers will continue to secure
and maintain the confidence of all good
soldiers, of all honest and pure patriots,
and TO excite the admiration and applause
of whatever is respectable throughout
Ohristendom. For nearly four years. has
II Europe looked on with impartial eye at the
5 conduct of affairs, civil and military in our
confederacy, and pronounced, with singu-
lar unanimlly, the opinion that never were
such affairs managed with more ability,
, more wisdom, more patriotic DEVOTION
more courage, or with more success, against
i7such fearful odds. 'a' l'-s - 60
; % Let the people cheer, up and no longer
heed the islanders of tho opposition panic
makers. F-.l-'a ~ -
. THE. 1uPorENcE OF ExGEAsD5TH YYoETz
: HOLDING HER IN ooETENPT AND TIE BIB
: BIS REGARDING HER WITH DISGUST.
From the RebmOnd Wing, Jan.A T.,
: =" ThrAe Of our CONTEMPORARIES seem to bC