Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-05

way. Bat THE fact remains that the move
ment is an exceedingly hopeful indication.
1t may be presumed that the Mayor and his
official coadjutors are intelligent gentlemen,
and in addition that they have been quite
as Southern in their notions and attach
ments as the average of the people. 1t
must be that they are pretty we'll impressed
not only that the war is a great calamity to
them but substantially failure on their
part. II would seem at all events as if the
desire for peace among them was much
stronger that the desire for further expert
nent looking to independence. They sub.
nit gracefully and if their acqnies-
cence is indicative of readiness in other
localities to do the same thing, then indeed
will the greatest problem connected with
this war have been solved. We have
never doubted the ability of the govern
ment to overthrow the armed power of the
South, for the odds we're too overwhelming
ly in our favor. 1t is and always has been
only and simply question of time about
reducing their military resistance. The
question of importance has been the ulti-
mate condition of things-the post beELum
era. 1t is this question that Mr.. Sumner,
Mr.. Stephens. Winter Davis, Gen. Banks
and other distinguished gentlemen have
concerned themselves about. 1t has been
supposed that we would be under the ne
cessity of governing the South as we now
govern our Territories, viz:-by appoin-
tees of the President, who should exercise
functions half civil and half military, and
who would need to be supported by mill
iiary establishment in each State. This
idea is not relished by our American peo-
pie, and they would q ccept the necessity
with reluctance. The universal idea is to
see the South come back, as the officials
of Savannah are gracefully, and,
if not willingly, at least III good faith and
acquiescively. And this movement at Sa~
vannah is important so far as it can be
considered representative in its character.
We think it representative for the reason
gent men there should show themselves
different from intelligent men 10 other To-
calities throughout the South. 1t must be
that the whole South is tired of the war
Their suiferiugs are terrible, and are daily
becoming more intoIerable. Life to them,
situated as they are. is wearisome aud full
Ofanxiety aud apprehension. Their future
must look bleak enough, whatever betides
them. They see that slavery is being torn
up by the roots wherever cur armies go,
aud that impoverishmeut and devastation
threatens all their country accessible to our
raiders. Each man must begia to say for
himself: "What does all this mean?" "Ot
what avail is all this suffering to me2'
ais the Southern Confederacy worth what
it is costing?" ibid we not once live hap
PLY and prosperousy in the Old Union?"
land why cannot and my neighbors live
as We have lived ?"
We may depend that those who think in
the South think of the past as well as the
present, and that they put the above ques-
tons to themselves 1t is not to be sup.
posed that the old Union with it's old mem
cries is only hateful remembrance to
to them. There are too many happy times
associated with the years before the war
Plain business people 10 the South will
not see the future as JEFF. Davis and his
political and military chieftains see it
The former will see the return of other
and better days, while the latter will see
like Lucifer, "a paradise lost and perdition
won." Ii our generals shall only prove
themselves statesmen, we may inauguFate
Savannah movements at many principal
points. These may make up an aggregate in
little while that will tell most whole
somely through the. South. Most assn
suredly there have got to be points of
beginning. The State of Georgia, the ''em. .
pire state" of the South, is an influential
initial point, and We really suppose that if
Gov. Brown should call such a conven-
ton as the officials of Savannah recon.
mend, the result would be declaration
against further war. We rejoice to believe
that Gen. Sherman is not only soldier
but statesman, aud that he will eviuCe
like the Napoleon with whom he is not
unnatuFally compared already, ga genius
no less for peace than for war" Itis in all
probability within the compass of a great
mind to plan and inaugurate in the very
heart of the rebellion reconstruction
movement that shall spread and cover the
South like the waves from the point where
the stone falls into the sea.
The Richmond Examiner can beat all
the balance of the COntederacy in news.
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