The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-14
price Of Gold In Richmond.


the Office to day. i
Price of Gold IN Richmond.
From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb 81
There was brisk demand for gold
Yesterday. The market opened at forty
five and closed stiff ut fOrty-siX
How we might have had Peace-Grad-
uaI Emancipation n Possible Conn
promise-Our Present Danger.
From Mobile Advertiser and Register, Jan. 20
We invite attention TO the editorial
we copy to-day from the New York Horid.
1t is an article full of practical sagaclty
and correct appreciation of the state 81
feeling at the South. We dOnot attempt
To disguise the fact that the Confederate
cause is at this moment passing through
its most dangerous crisis. Large nam
bers of the people-peFhaps, upon ialr
poll, the majority-are heart sick OF the
war, and willing to end it upon terms
which would have been secuted at as
reasonable two years, or even one year
ago. Even the class of shareholders,
having the deepest pecunIary stake III
the success of the struggle for indepen-
dence, are ready TO make sacrlhees, the
mention OF which, short time ago,
would not have been tolerated We
have not a doubt that the country, IN
cluding the slave proprietorS, large ana
small, would compromise today Tor
peace and independence OF the o;'sls Of
gradual and universal emancipation "i
the blacks We may 60 further, and say
that large: numbers would be willing to
rive up all their cherished thoughts OF
independence, and exchange the instltu-
ton for naked peace, upon terms oi re-
construction This is great change,
wonderful revolution of popular senU-
ment, resulting from four years OF tie
mendous conflict. The UOrid, therefore.
gives the counsel of wisdom and philoso-
phy when it advises the Lincoln
Government that this is the hap
py moment for generous oneis
of peace and "A restoration OF the old gov
ernmcnt. From these facts spring the
danger of the cause of which we speak.
If Lincoln and his party were honest III
the avowal of the true motives and prn-
ciples from which they wage the war
and in which they have engaged the
sympathies and enlisted the energies "l
the Northern people--Of restoration Oh
the Union as it was" upon the basis OF
acknowledgements of state rights, ana tne
candid admission of the maxim OF by
cones being by-goncs," and II he were
skillfllly to seize the golden opportunity,
and wisely drop the sword, and take up
the pen of peaceful negotiation, we
should not value the cause OF southern
Independence ut pins head. inns Is
our present danger but 1t Is a danger
that will pass away and leave the people
more united than ever IN the struggle,
and fired moreover with all the passions
of revenge and despair, To conquer OF
! perish in the struggle for liberty. Wheli-
ever this desperate enthusiasm shall gam
possession Of the souls OF southern men,
and drive them eheertully to lock thelr
! shields together in an uEtinchlng resolve
to conquer or die. our cause may be pro-
| neunced safe, and the dawn OF lndepend-
ence will be clearly visible. Mr. Presl-
dent Lincoln, who, by his policy, has so
often been our friend in need, who has
welded us together by the ruthIessness
of the spirit with which he has assailed
us. as well as by the deathiess recoliec-
ton of the savage cruelty ofhis officers,
aud the savage brutality OF his soldIery'
il roino 10 omen the door of escape from
this peril. and while closing up all the
avenues of hope to peace upon any
Int tintolerabie terms, he will again lire
the southern heart and make dcsper-
ate men of the greatest towards. Mr..
Lincoln will not heed the advice OF the
world-hc will not seize the propituOus
moment TO achieve what the North IS
really fighting and what he IS ostenslDly
hphtinr for aud it is because Mr. LIN
coin does now and has for three years
past waged the warn upon false pretenses.
he does not want nor intend to have
restored Union he will not have state
RIGHTS rssprcted nor the civil rights ol
southern men re-cstablished he means,
if he can by brute force, 10 trample thls
people out of existence, appropriate their
! lands and goods, and repopulate this
| land with colonies of people and soldiers
from the North He means - free the
negroes ia name - satisfy the sentiment
taiism of the world, but not i'll deed
We must take care of ourselves, aud
| leave the responsibility - to the negro
to those who have broken the ties OF tn
| telaoc and protection which bound him
to his master. What it becomes the
white race of the South to know now Is,
that there are no hopes of honorable
peace for them in the impossible dreams
in which the despondent are indnlglng
Lincoln, nor his cabiuet, nor hi, Con-
gress. nor his mouth-picces of the press
or the restrum, haze get Irritte1 or sad one
rrord upon which 10 to'pd Il reasonable nope
/ if ire desref reconstruction, rrcn on M basts
Of emancipation. THAT WE COULD GET IT.
We admit that at the present epoch even
moderate wisdom and statrsmanshlp on
Lincom's part could secure restoration
/ But Lincoln has nOtoGered il and he does
not mean to offer it, There Is nought
left to us bat WAR or public and indivld-
ual ruin and disgrace. When the nation
comes to realize this stern fact, we shall
soon conquer our independence.