Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-13
FROM RICHMOND.

eriEnty Played out and Condemned
-FrenzIed DenuncIRtiOn OF the SUR
render Party.
The latest Richmond papers-especially
the numbers of the Enquirer for the 9Th and
7th inst, contain significant srticles-prob-
ably the most significant of any that have
appeared within year past. AS our readers
are aware the Virginia (rebeD Legislature
have passed resol utions instructiDg Hunter
and Caperton, their confederate Senators,
to support the policy of introducing ne.
groes into the military service, and the
Examiner calls on the confederate Senate
to do its duty Immediately. On the other |
hand, the North Carolina legislature has |
passed resolutions protesting against arm.
ing the slaves in any contingency, denying
the power of the confederate government
to impress slaves for military service, ex-
cept with the consent of the States, and
and then only according to State laws
The rebel House of Representatives has
passed bill for raising troops to defend
Richmond, and they are not to be marched
beyond the inner line of intrenchments,
except with their own consent. The Senti-
mel has full column editorial, pleading in
the most urgent manner for union and har-
mouy everywhere. 1t Gays that Wrapgling
is death, and that tho country ia alarmed
at the prospect 1--WE must be united or
we must fail. We must act together, or
we shall perish together by our own shame
full Distraction" The Enquirer protests in
the strongest terms against the proposed
State convention.
The following is its article:
1t is proposed to add another talking ap.
paratus to the two now assembled in the
capital Of Virginia. This last is to be a
supreme sovereign talking apparatus, call
ed Convention. In the name and behalf
of poor distracted cause, which has al
ready been talked to death, we solemnly
protest Where are the men to come from
that are to compose this Convention7 The
doers, the actors of this State, are now do
ing and acting the solemn work of its de.
tense. ManfuIly, yet silently as to words,
are they working for the safety and saliva
ton of Virginia. In no other place can
they do and work so efFeetually as in the
army; and as these workers cannot be
spared from their noble work, we protest
ed with the sovereign powers of Virginia
A Convention cannot fight. Bodies of men
whose duties and occupation are to talk,
are played out The country turns in dis
gust from them.
USELESS CONGRESS.
For four months the Congress of the
Confederate States has sat in Richmond,
and day after day witnessed the military
strength dWindling away; and though Gen.
Lee has appealed to it, implored it to use
the great military strength of the negroes
for the defense of the country, yet to this
late day of its session it has wholly failed
and refused to adopt measures for the SAL
walton OF the country. When history re-
cords the struggle of these States, and
writes in letters of living light, the honor
and glory of some, it will not fail to record,
in equally imperishable characters the
shame and disgrace of others when it tells
OF the heroic courage of the army, the
splendid victories it won and the harlships
it nobly endured it will also record the
unparalleled sacrifices sustained by the
people-their houses and barns burned
their lands pillaged, their persons insulted
it will not fail to record that, while the
army and the people were thus doing and
suffering, Congress was idling time in talk
and failingto adopt the legislation required
AOA LhO SblhdLlOu VI luo II TO
have been a soldier in the Army of Northern
Virginia will always be an honor and glory,
to have been a member of the present
Congress will not be any recommendation.
DANGERS OF a CONVENTION.
HoCOnvention is now wanted in Virginia.
Convention will not fight, but it might
run away aye, capitulate. When that sad
alternative is presented, Gen. Lee is the
proper convention. He is the best Judge
OF our situation.
STATE soVBREIGNTY.
No Convention is needed; for what is
the sovereignty of the State needed in Con.
VentionI has not State sovereignty been
the weakness of the cause2 If during the
life and death struggle, with the compress
OF common danger to bind and hold to-
gether these States, this principle of State
sovereignty was continually obtrudinp it.
self; delaying and preventing the legisla.
ton necessary to the common defense. i'm.
pairing that authority intrusted with the
general welfare, and impeding the execu-
ton of laws necessary and proper to the
success of the cause, isit to be supposed that
when peace returns this principle of State
sovereignty will permit the ConfederacV to
exist one Year, How long would Governor
Brown permit the people of Georgia to be
taxed to pay the debt of the eountryH Even
during the struggle he-a very ordinary
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to criticise Gen. Lees
military movements, and undertakes to say
mat Gen. Early should have been sent to
Georgia instead of to Washington. State
so7ereignty-thus presuming to judge mat
ters entrusted to the Confederate Executive,
undertakes to destroy the efficiency of that
Executive, and 20 subvert all measures
undertaken for the common defense and
general welfare. The conduct of certain
States in their opposition to the laws passed
for the organization of the army and the
preservation of discipline, has caused ma.
ny men to reconsider their long cherished |
doctrine of State Sovereignty, and to come