Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-03
FROM RIOHMOND.
AN APPEAL FOB YoUEs RECRUITS ToR THE
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We submitted 9 few remarks the other
day touching the best school that a boy
can now be put in-the Confederate ARMY
Next 70 Sidney Smiths inverted hogsheadN
there is no such place for keeping youth
out Of mischief Long Tom Coffin used to
say that he did not see tho necessity of
any land, except now and then little to
drop an anchor In. Il is,equalIy difficult
to see the necessity, now, ofAnything that
does not pertain to war. This is no time
for muck learning, and every one knows
that a little Is dangerous. Posterity will
excuse the young men of this generation,
If they are ignorant on ali other points, if
they know how 70 save their country. If
they do not know that, it matters little on
what other points they are enlightened. or
uuenlightened; for people In that condi.
lion may as we'll be ignorant as educated,
and, as for the voice of POsterity, there is
not likely to be, in that event, any poster
tty worth listening to. a-ti sGE
Our object in these reflections is to adj
wise all parents whose sons will soon arrive
at the military age not to be 30 anxious
about their education as to smugRle them
off to Europe, nor to entertain such COM
ltEacted ideas of their real welfare az to lay
cunning plans of any kind for keeping them
out of the ranks. We have no illusions 70
any of the falling back generals when We
say that the safest place a youth can now
be plaoed'in IL the army. Not the safest,
perhaps, for his arms and legs, but for his
manhood, his honor, his future estimation
among men, and perhaps his morals and
his soul. o. 1fIasiz aai-
1t is no longer question with parents
whether they cen send their sons to coll
leges and universities. Colleges are broken
mp, universities turned into hospitals; or,
If any are not, the few students have only
to step out Of doors 70 see q history enact.
ing, which of course drives ont Of their
heads the worm. eaten leaves that record
the history of worm. eaten ages, long ago
dead and buried. You might as well ask
them 70 pore over the wood cuts in a "nat.
ursI history" when Whols tribes oil
lions, elephants, grizzly bears, hippopota-
mi, ars roaring, growing, tTumpetiug,
Strengthening and deVouring under their
windows. H3 ih HG f 5af
The best possible place for young
mans education is now the army. The
choicest vintage of the nations grapes, the
pureBt wine of her life, is now in the field
II the coming generation cannot be sent to
schools of intellectual training, let them
at least be sent to schools of honor, gener-
Osity and patriotism. Better have son
grow up with noble sentiments and lofty
sense of duty to principle and to country
than to become a selfish, groveling merce-
nary, money-maktng machine, which is ali
that any education. outside the army il
now likely to accomplish. Any man who
takes an intelligent view of the welfare
and happiness Of child would sooner see
him dead and in better world than to see
him become fattened swine in selishuess
and extortion, aud trained up only to accu-
mulate Confederate notes and lose his
soul, If we are to be subjugated, blessed,
thrice blessed are the dead, who have per-
ished, or may perish, in endeavOring to
prevent it, and who will not see the down
fall of the Republic.
If Confederate parent now wishes to
teach his son the way TO live and the way
TO die, let him send him as soon as he
reaches the military age, to the bronzed
and battle SCARED veterans in the front.
CLOSING OF TIE PORTS ANOTHER ''BLEssIHG
II DISGUISE"
Prom the Richmond Wing.
Now that our ports are Theoretically
sealed it becomes matter Of necessity Il
develop our resources. The army must be
fed, clothed and paid. How can this be
, done since cotton is no longer an article Of
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question to be solved by the Ingenuity anG
the industry of our countrymen. We be.
0 lieve it can be solved, aud solved readily
I If ths proper impetus and encouragement
be given by the authorities TO those natura
inventive gifts in which our citizens are ne
! more deficient than those Of the NORTH
8 Look at the wonderfully ingenious aud use
A full inventions Of our prisoners in Northern
camps, and it 10 impossible to doubt that
under the pressure of the mother Of inven
i tiOn-necessity-ths Southern man viii
Q prove fully the equal, if not the superior
!. of the Yankee. This necessity is now i'm
posed upon rs by the closure of our ports
and from it We augur the best consequent
0 ce0.
Q Not only must our armies be fed anG
, clothed, but the people also must be fed
:. clothed and employed. The capital who'll
= has been devoted to blockade running
: must and will be devoted to other channels
Il remains to be seen whether the gooC
4 sense Of the government aud people viii
be exerted to prevent the conflict aud com
petition Of capital now idle, or whether tbs
industry of the country will be organized
q on broad and comprehensive basis. Now
or never the effort at organization and CO.
ordination OF the labo. and skill of thu
country must be made, and made ener.
getically, deciSiveIy. Not one moment il
to be lost.
Heretofore both the Government aud the
people have been reproaChed, not uDjustly
for the misuse of that great lever of power
} the cotton crop. That crop is stiil DECD
, capital in our hands, and likely to remaIu
so, If proper steps be not taken to mobil
iIs aud vitaliEs it. Happily the pressure
Of necessity is upon the people, aud, fortu.
nAtely for the people, there is now large
degree OF practical Sagacity IN at least two
branches OF the Executive Government.
Cotton, and With 1.-THE whole industry OF
! the country, must waken Into new life,
Shall there be the discord aud the ineyits.
Z BILE failure which attends the CONFLICTS OF
greedy, soulless and unpatriotic capital.
: i1ts, or shall thorn be the aYstnr, nrfinr